Research Papers

 

Experimental

"Learning from Mistakes: What Do Inconsistent Choices Over Risk Tell Us?,"
with Sarah Jacobson, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, forthcoming, 2009.

"Rationality and the Nature of the Market," with Marco Castillo and Maximo Torero, September 2008, EXCEN Working Paper 2008-12.

"Face Value," with Catherine Eckel, July 2008, EXCEN Working Paper 2008-11.

"The Today and Tomorrow of Kids,"
with Marco Castillo, Paul Ferraro and Jeff Jordan, June 2008, EXCEN Working Paper 2008-10.

"On the Preferences of Principals and Agents,"
with Marco Castillo and Maximo Torero, Economic Inquiry, forthcoming, 2008.

"Discrimination in the Lab: Experiments Exploring the Impact of Performance and Appearance on Sorting and Cooperation,"
with Marco Castillo, EXCEN Working Paper 2007-02, December 2006.

"Beautiful or White? Discrimination in Group Formation," 
with Marco Castillo and Maximo Torero, May 2008. (previous title "Social Barriers to Cooperation: Experiments on the Extent and Nature of Discrimination in Peru").

"Revealing Preferences for Fairness in Ultimatum Bargaining,"
with James Andreoni and Marco Castillo, October 2006 (appeared in NAJ Economics, 9(4), 2005).

"Beauty, Gender and Stereotypes: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments,"
with James Andreoni, Journal of Economic Psychology, 29, February 2008, 73-93.
**Click here to read the New York Times article (April 6, 2006) citing this research. This work is also cited in the U.K.'s The Daily Mail and The Independent (August 12, 2007).

"Public Goods Experiments Without Confidentiality: A Glimpse Into Fund-Raising,"
with James Andreoni, Journal of Public Economics, 88(7-8), 2004, 1605-1623.

"What do Bargainers' Preferences Look Like?  Experiments with a Convex Ultimatum Game?"
with James Andreoni and Marco Castillo, American Economic Review, 2003, 93(3), 672-685.

Development and Land Economics

"Discrimination in the Warplace: Evidence from a Civil War in Peru,"
with Marco Castillo, November 2007.

Estimating the Value of Water Use Permits: A Hedonic Approach Applied to Farmland in the Southeastern U.S.,”
with Laura Taylor, Land Economics, 83(3), August 2007, 302-318

"Farm Household Production Efficiency: Evidence from the Gambia,"
with Jean-Paul Chavas and Michael J. Roth, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 87(1), 2005, 160-179.

"Seeking Women Land Owners and Ownership in Zimbabwe: Case Studies of Deeds Registration Haves and Have Nots,"
with Kizito Mazvimavi and Michael J. Roth,
in Delivering Land and Securing Rural Livelihoods: Post-Independence Land Reform and Resettlement in Zimbabwe, Michael Roth and Francis Gonese, eds., Centre for Applied Social Sciences, University of Zimbabwe and the Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2003, 141-157.

 

Reports

"Rwanda Credit Unions Member and Non-Member Survey 2002,"
World Council of Credit Unions Research Monograph Series No. 20, June 2002.