Some Published Research (Since 2010)

"Partisan Political Beliefs and Social Learning," with Andrea Robbett and Lily Colón, accepted, Journal of Public Economics

"Responsible Majorities? How Group Composition Drives Partisan Expressive Voting," with Andrea Robbett, forthcoming, Political Behavior

"Tournaments and Competition," with Jeffrey Carpenter, forthcoming, Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Klaus Zimmerman, editor.

"Polarization and Group Cooperation," with Andrea Robbett, forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Political Science

"Auctions for Charity: The Curse of the Familiar," with Jeffrey Carpenter and Damian Damianov," Interntional Economic Review, Vol. 16, No. 3 (August 2022): 1109-1135

"Choice Architecture Improves Consumer Financial Decision-Making and Welfare," with Jeffrey Carpenter, Emiliano Huet-Vaughn, Andrea Robbett, Dustin Beckett and Julian Jamison, Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 103, No. 1 (March 2021): 102-118.

"Preferences and Civil War in Northern Uganda: Post-Traumatic Growth Reconsidered" with Matthew Lowes and Jeff Carpenter, Journal of African Economies, Vol. 2, No. 5 (November 2020): 433-453.

“The Dialectics of Differentiation,” Review of Social Economy, Vol. 79, No. 1 (2021): 25-50.

"Income Inequality and Environmental Policy: Evidence From The Clean Air Act," with Akshaya Jha and Nicholas Muller, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 109 (May 2019): 271-276.

“The Distribution of Income Is Worse Than You Think,” with Nicholas Muller and Virginia Wiltshire-Gordon, PLoS ONE, 13 (3) 2018: e0192461.
(Popular: “Breathing Inequality: Air Pollution Widens the Gap Between the ‘Two Pittsbughs’,” with Nicholas Muller, Pittsbugh Post-Gazette, 19 May 2018.)

"Expressive Voting and Partisan Bias," with Andrea Robbett, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 157 (January 2018): 107-120.
(Public lecture reviewed (in Finnish) as “Mielenosoituksia äänestyskopissa,” Yliopisto-Lehti, January 2018.)

"Compensating Differentials in Experimental Labor Markets," with Jeff Carpenter and Andrea Robbett, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Vol. 69 (August 2017): 50-60.

“Using Raffles to Fund Public Goods: Lessons From a Field Experiment,” Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 150 (2017): 30-38.

“Ceding Control: An Experimental Analysis of Participatory Management,” with Jeff Carpenter and Phil Mellizo, Journal of the Economic Science Association, Vol. 3, No. 1 (July 2017): 62-74.

“Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy,” with Jeff Carpenter and Benjamin Tabb, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 143 (2016): 64–72

“Revenue Implications of Strategic and External Auction Risk,” with Andrea Robbett and Michael Graham, Games (2016) 7(1) 5. (Special Issue: Game Theortic Analyses of Multi-Sided Markets).

“Bucket Auctions for Charity,” with Jeff Carpenter and Jessica Holmes, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 88 (November 2014): 260-276.

“Workplace Democracy in the Lab,” with Jeff Carpenter and Phil Mellizo, Industrial Relations Journal, Vol. 45, No. 4 (July 2014): 313-328.

“Crying Over Spilt Milk: Sunk Costs, Fairness and the Hold-Up Problem,” with Jeff Carpenter, Studies in Microeconomics, Vol. 1, No. 2 (December 2013): 113-130.

“Norm Enforcement: Anger, Indignation or Reciprocity?” with Jeff Carpenter, Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 10, No. 3 (June 2012): 555-572.
[Mentioned in “Citizen Enforcers Take Aim,” The New York Times, October 6, 2008.]

“Jumping and Sniping the Silents: Does It Matter For Charities?” with Jeff Carpenter and Jessica Holmes, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 95, Nos. 5-6 (2011): 395-402.

“Endogenous Participation in Charity Auctions,” with Jeff Carpenter and Jessica Holmes, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 94, Nos. 11-12 (2010): 921-935.

“Charity Auctions in the Experimental Lab,” with Jeff Carpenter and Jessica Holmes, forthcoming in Mark Isaac and Douglas Norton, editors, Research in Experimental Economics, Volume 13.

“Tournaments and Office Politics: Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment,” with Jeff Carpenter and John Schirm, American Economic Review, Vol. 100, No. 1 (March 2010): 504-517.

“Norm Enforcement: The Role of Third Parties,” with Jeff Carpenter, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 166, No. 2 (2010): 239-258.


Working Papers and Work In Progress


“Partisan Political Beliefs and Social Learning,” with Andrea Robbett and Lily Colón

“Rank and Individual Welfare: The View from Finland,” with Michael Kirchler, Kaisa Kotakorpi, Satu Metsalampi, Topi Miettinen and Xiaogeng Xu

“The Kids Are Alright: Climate Concern Among Young Adults In The Time of COVID,” with Julia Berazneva and Michelle McCauley

“Environmental Preferences and COVID-19,” with Julia Berazneva, Daniel Graeber, Michelle McCauley and Sabine Zinn

“Shopping for Alternative Facts,” with Andrea Robbett

“In-group Favoritism and Moral Wiggle Room,” with Andrea Robbett and Henry Walsh ‘21

“Framing and Consistency of Distribution Choices,” with Andrea Robbett and Isabel Lindsay ‘19

“Gendered Grammar and Discrimination,” with Andrea Robbett and Dan Buchman ’18.5

“Exploitation,” with Ben Ferguson, David Ronayne and Roberto Veneziani

“Trust and Redistributive Preferences: A Reappraisal,” with Hyeon-Seok (Tom) Yu

"A Comprehensive Evaluation of Charity Auctions," with Jeff Carpenter and Josh Foster

“A Model of Capitalist Culture and the Business Cycle” “Reputation and Labor Market Power in a Simple Model of Endogenous Preferences”