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C O M P L E T E D   P A P E R S

1.   Race and Gender Biases: Evidence from Child Adoption, November 2009, joint with Mariagiovanna Baccara, Allan
      Collard-Wexler
, and Leonardo Felli.

      Link to data appendix

2.   An Experimental Study of Jury Deliberation, September 2009, joint with Jacob K. Goeree, submitted.

      Link to experimental instructions

3.   A Field Study on Matching with Network Externalities, July 2009, revised August 2009, joint with Mariagiovanna Baccara,
      Ayse Imrohoroglu, and Alistair Wilson, submitted.

4.   Decentralized Matching with Aligned Preferences, March 2009, joint with Muriel Niederle, submitted.

5.   Matching Through Decentralized Markets, November 2008, joint with Muriel Niederle.

6.   Get Out the (Costly) Vote: Institutional Design for Greater Participation, December 2008, revised June 2009, joint with
      
Dino Gerardi
, Margaret A. McConnell, and Julian Romero, submitted.

7.   Experiments on Decisions Under Uncertainty: A Theoretical Framework, May 2008, revised November 2008, joint with
     
Eran Shmaya.

8.   Similarity and Polarization in Groups, September 2008, revised April 2009, joint with Mariagiovanna Baccara, submitted.  

9.   Conformity in the Lab, July 2006, revised August 2007, joint with Jacob K. Goeree, under revision for resubmission.

Link to experimental instructions

10. Safety in Markets: An Impossibility Theorem for Dutch Books, August 2005, revised July 2007, joint with David Laibson.

11. I'll See It when I Believe It: A Simple Model of Cognitive Consistency, January 2005, under revision for resubmission.

 

P U B L I S H E D   A N D   F O R T H C O M I N G   P A P E R S

1.    Network Games, 2009, joint with Andrea Galeotti, Sanjeev Goyal, Matthew O. Jackson, and  Fernando Vega-Redondo,
     
 The Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.

2.    The Interplay between Theory and Experiments, 2009, forthcoming in The Methods of Modern Experimental Economics
     
 (edited by Guillaume Frechette and Andrew Schotter), Oxford University Press.

3.    The 1/d Law of Giving, 2009, joint with  Jacob K. Goeree, Margaret A. McConnell, Tiffany Mitchell, and Tracey Tromp,
     
 American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, forthcoming.

4.    Costly Expertise, 2008, joint with Dino Gerardi, The American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), Volume 98(2),
        pages 187-193.

5.    Diffusion, Strategic Interaction, and Social Structure, 2008, joint with Matthew O. Jackson, forthcoming in the Handbook of
 Social Economics
(edited by Benhabib, Bisin, and Jackson), Elsevier.

6.    Information Acquisition in Committees, 2007, joint with Dino Gerardi, Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 62, pages 436-459.

 Link to Technical Addendum

7.    Diffusion of Behavior and Equilibrium Properties in Network Games, 2007, joint with Matthew O. Jackson, The American
       Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings)
, Volume 97(2), pages 92-98.

 Link to working paper version with more results and proofs

8.    Social Networks and the Diffusion of Behavior, 2007, joint with Matthew O. Jackson, Yale Economic Review, Volume 3(2),
       pages 42-47.

9.    Deliberative Voting, 2006, joint with Dino Gerardi, Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 134, pages 317-338.

10.  Diffusion on Social Networks, 2006, joint with Matthew O. Jackson, Economie Publique, Volume 16(1), pages 69-82.

11.  What's in a Surname? The Effects of Surname Initials on Academic Success, 2006, joint with Liran Einav, The Journal
 of Economic Perspectives,
Volume 20(1), pages 175-188.

 Link to faculty data, publications data, working paper version with probits and toy model

 [Featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Washington Post, Forbes Magazine, The Boston Globe, Telegraph, among others]

12.  Frequent Social Comparisons, Self-Esteem, and Negative Emotions and Behaviors: The Dark Side of Social
 Comparisons
, 2006, joint with
Judith White, Ellen Langer, and Johnny Welch, The Journal of Adult Development, Volume 13(1),
 pages 36-44.

13.   Games with Espionage, 2004, joint with Eilon Solan, Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 47(1), pages 172-199.

14.   Repeated Games with Incomplete Information on One Side: The Case of Different Discounting Factors, 1999, joint with
 
 Ehud Lehrer, Mathematics of Operations Research, Volume 24(1), pages 204-218.

15.   A Note on Repeated Games with Non-Monotonic Value, 1997, International Journal of Game Theory, Volume 26(2),
  pages 229-234.

 

O T H E R

1.   Book Review of Explorations in Pragmatic Economics, by George A. Akerlof, Oxford University Press, 2007, The Journal
      of Economic Literature
, Volume 45(2), pages 429-432.
 

2.   Book review of Case-Based Decisions, by Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler, Cambridge University Press, 2003, Economic Journal, Volume 113(485), pages F191-F192.