Rebecca Dizon-Ross
Associate Professor of Economics and Charles E. Merrill Faculty Scholar
Rebecca Dizon-Ross
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Working Papers
Mechanism Design for Personalized Policy: A Field Experiment Incentivizing Exercise
with Ariel Zucker
June 2023,
Revise and resubmit, Econometrica
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Designing Incentives for Impatient People: An RCT Promoting Exercise to Manage Diabetes
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with Shilpa Aggarwal and Ariel Zucker
June 2024,
Reject and resubmit, Journal of Political Economy
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Not Playing Favorites: Parents and the Value of Equal Opportunity.
with James Berry and Maulik Jagnani
March 2024, Conditionally accepted, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
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Using Randomized Information Shocks to Understand How Parents’ Investments Depend on Their Children’s Ability
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April 2022
Publications and Forthcoming Papers
The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment
with Manasi Deshpande
American Economic Review
113, no. 12 (2023): 3129-3172. [Lead Article.]
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Online Appendix
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Detecting Mother-Father Differences in Spending on Children: A New Approach Using Willingness-to-Pay Elicitation
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with Seema Jayachandran
American Economic Review: Insights
5, no. 4 (2023): 445-459.
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Improving Willingness-to-Pay Elicitation by Including a Benchmark Good
with Seema Jayachandran
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings
112 (2022): 551-555.
How Does School Accountability Affect Teachers? Evidence from New York City
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Journal of Human Resources
55.1 (2020): 76-118.
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Chalkbeat Article
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CBR Article
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Parents' Beliefs About Their Children's Academic Ability: Implications for Educational Investments.
American Economic Review
109, no. 8 (2019): 2728-65.
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Governance and the Effectiveness of Public Health Subsidies.
with Pascaline Dupas and Jonathan Robinson
Journal of Public Economics
156 (2017): 150-169.
[Data]
Dynamic Search Models with Multiple Items
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with Sheldon Ross
Annals of Operations Research
288 (2020): 223-235.
Selected research in progress
Encouraging Drug Abstinence with Dynamic Incentives
with Ariel Zucker
Data collection in progress.
[Extended Abstract]
Peace Through Prosperity? Evidence from a High-Tech Entrepreneurship RCT in the Palestinian West Bank
with Daniel Fehder, Yael Hochberg, Joshua Krieger, and Daniel Lee
Data collection complete, draft coming soon.
Debiasing Peoples' Overoptimism About Their Health Risk
with Seema Jayachandran and Ariel Zucker
Data collection complete.
[Extended Abstract]
Beliefs About Beliefs About Gender in India: Implications for Female Labor Force Participation
with Marianne Bertrand, Kaushik Krishnan, and Heather Schofield
Data collection in progress.
Broadening Women's Job Search to Improve Their Employment
with So Yoon Ahn and Benjamin Feigenberg
Project funded
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Scaling Incentive Programs
with Ariel Zucker