Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Increased risk-taking, not loss tolerance, drives adolescents’ propensity to choose risky prospects more often under peer observation
Published 2021Relative to adults, adolescents make more welfare-decreasing decisions, especially in the presence of peers. The consequences of these decisions result in substantial individual and societal losses in terms of lives lost, ...Open AccessArticle -
Age, Industry, and Unemployment Risk During a Pandemic Lockdown
Published 2021This paper models the macroeconomic and distributional consequences of lockdown shocks during the COVID-19 pandemic. The model features heterogeneous life-cycle households, labor search, employment risk, and multiple ...Preprint -
A classification of bargaining solutions by evolutionary origin
Published 2014-01-01For games of contracting under perturbed best response dynamics, varying the perturbations along two dimensions (uniform vs. logit, directed vs. undirected) gives four possibilities. Three of these select differing major ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Monkey see, monkey do: truth-telling in matching algorithms and the manipulation of others
Published 2014-01-01We test the effect of the amount of information on the strategies played by others in the theoretically strategy-proof Top Trading Cycles (TTC) mechanism. We find that providing limited information on the strategies played ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Flexible valuations for consumer goods as measured by the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak mechanism
Published 2013-11-01Economists have long been interested in mechanisms that lead to truthful revelation of the relative values individuals place on diff erent goods. In this paper we take one of the most popular of such mechanisms, and show ...Open AccessWorking Paper