Working Papers
Evaluation and Learning in R&D Investment (with Joshua Krieger, Danielle Li, and Dimitris Papanikolaou)
October 2024; first version posted December 2022
Forthcoming and Published Papers
Test-Optional Admissions (with Wouter Dessein and Navin Kartik)
American Economic Review, forthcoming
Press: VoxEU
Related note: A Result on Optimal Deterministic Allocation Rules (with Navin Kartik)
The Test-Optional Puzzle (with Wouter Dessein and Navin Kartik)
AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025 [115:669-75]
Representing Type Spaces as Signal Allocations (with Ben Brooks and Emir Kamenica)
Economic Theory Bulletin, April 2025 [13:37-43]
Comparisons of Signals (with Ben Brooks and Emir Kamenica)
American Economic Review, September 2024 [114(9):2981-3006]
Information Hierarchies (with Ben Brooks and Emir Kamenica)
Econometrica, September 2022 [90(5):2187-2214]
Improving Information from Manipulable Data (with Navin Kartik)
Journal of the European Economic Association, February 2022 [20(1):79-115].
Which Findings Should Be Published? (with Max Kasy)
Online Appendix
AEJ: Micro, February 2022 [14(1):1-38]
Selecting Applicants
Econometrica, March 2021 [89(2):615-645]
Quantifying Information and Uncertainty (with Emir Kamenica)
American Economic Review, October 2019 [109(10):3650-3680]
Muddled Information (with Navin Kartik)
Journal of Political Economy, August 2019 [127(4):1739-1776]
A Note on Interval Delegation (with Manuel Amador and Kyle Bagwell)
Economic Theory Bulletin, October 2018 [6:239-249]
What Kind of Central Bank Competence? (with Navin Kartik)
Theoretical Economics, May 2018 [13:697-728]
An earlier version with a different focus was circulated under the title
What Kind of Transparency?
Discounted Quotas
Journal of Economic Theory, November 2016 [166:396-444]
Delegating Multiple Decisions
AEJ: Micro, November 2016
[8(4):16-53]
Suspense and Surprise (with Jeff Ely and Emir
Kamenica)
Online Appendix
Journal of Political Economy, February 2015 [123(1):215-260]
Press: New York Times,
Chicago Tribune,
Freakonomics (1),
Freakonomics (2)
Taxation of Couples under Assortative Mating
AEJ: Policy, August 2014 [6(3):155-177]
Aligned Delegation
Online Appendix
American Economic Review, January 2014 [104(1):66-83]
Experts and Their Records (with Michael Schwarz)
Economic Inquiry, January 2014 [52(1):56-71]