Research

Working Papers

Evaluation and Learning in R&D Investment (with Joshua Krieger, Danielle Li, and Dimitris Papanikolaou)
  December 2022

Test-Optional Admissions (with Wouter Dessein and Navin Kartik)
  October 2023; first version posted April 2023
  Press: VoxEU
  
Related note: A Result on Optimal Deterministic Allocation Rules (with Navin Kartik)

 

 

Forthcoming and Published Papers

Representing Type Spaces as Signal Allocations (with Ben Brooks and Emir Kamenica)
  Economic Theory Bulletin, forthcoming

Comparisons of Signals (with Ben Brooks and Emir Kamenica)
  American Economic Review, forthcoming

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(2):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]