Working papers
- Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households
(with Marianne Bertrand and Jessica Pan)
last updated: May 2013 - Suspense and Surprise
(with Jeff Ely and Alex Frankel)
online appendix
last updated: April 2013 - Labor Supply of Politicians
(with Ray Fisman, Nik Harmon, and Inger Munk)
last updated: February 2013 - Competition in Persuasion
(with Matthew Gentzkow)
last updated: September 2012 - Disclosure of Endogenous Information
(with Matthew Gentzkow)
last updated: August 2012
Advertisements Impact the Physiological Efficacy of a Branded Drug
(with Anup Malani and Robert Naclerio)
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last updated: February 2013
Published and forthcoming papers
- Information and Subsidies: Complements or Substitutes?
(with Nava Ashraf and Kelsey Jack)
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, forthcoming - Voters, Dictators, and Peons: Expressive Voting and Pivotality
(with Louisa Egan Brad)
Public Choice, forthcoming - Behavioral Economics and Psychology of Incentives
Annual Review of Economics
Vol. 4, 2012, pp. 427-52 - Bayesian Persuasion
(with Matthew Gentzkow)
online appendix
reviewed by NAJ Economics
American Economic Review
Vol. 101(6), October 2011, pp. 2590-2615 - Helping Consumers Know Themselves
(with Sendhil Mullainathan and Richard Thaler)
American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings
Vol. 101(3), May 2011, pp. 417-422 - Choice Proliferation, Simplicity Seeking, and Asset Allocation
(with Sheena Iyengar)
Journal of Public Economics
Vol. 94(7-8), August 2010, pp. 530-539 - Contextual Inference in Markets: On the Informational Content of Product Lines
American Economic Review
Vol. 98(5), December 2008, pp. 2127–2149
for an older version with endogenous prices, click here - Man's Search for Meaning: The Case of Legos
(with Dan Ariely and Dražen Prelec)
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Vol. 67(3), September 2008, pp. 671-677 - Racial Preferences in Dating
(with Ray Fisman, Sheena Iyengar, and Itamar Simonson)
Review of Economic Studies
Vol. 75(1), January 2008, pp. 117-132 - Gender Differences in Mate Selection: Evidence from a Speed Dating Experiment
(with Ray Fisman, Sheena Iyengar, and Itamar Simonson)
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Vol. 121(2), May 2006, pp. 673-697 - Two-Sided Bandits and the Dating Market
(with Sanmay Das)
Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
August 2005, pp. 947-952
Letters and book reviews
- Review of Beauty Pays by Daniel Hamermesh
Journal of Economic Literature
Vol. 50(2), June 2012 , pp. 521-523 - On gorgeous computer programmers
The Economist. Jan. 10, 2008
Response to Beauty and success: To those that have, shall be given - On housing prices and wealth
The New Yorker. Jun. 05, 2006
Response to Through the roof, by James Surowiecki