Working papers

• Competition in Persuasion
  (with Matthew Gentzkow)
  last updated: September 2011
• Labor Supply of Politicians
  (with Ray Fisman, Nik Harmon, and Inger Munk)
  last updated: December 2011
  
• Information and Subsidies: Complements or Substitutes?
  (with Nava Ashraf and Kelsey Jack)
  last updated: June 2011
  
• Voters, Dictators, and Peons: Expressive Voting and Pivotality
  (with Louisa Egan)
  last updated: December 2011
• Do Advertisements Impact the Physiological Efficacy of Branded Drugs?
  (with Anup Malani)
  please email me to request the current draft
  

Published and forthcoming papers

• Behavioral Economics and Psychology of Incentives
  Annual Review of Economics
  forthcoming
• 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