LEEAT YARIV

Research

completed papers

Collective Self-Control, May 2012, revised August 2013, joint with Alessandro Lizzeri.
What Makes Voters Turn Out: The Effects of Polls and Beliefs, March 2012, joint with Marina Agranov, Jacob K. Goeree, and Julian Romero.

Link to No Polls, Perfect Polls, and Lab Polls Instructions
Government Policy with Time Inconsistent Voters, September 2011, joint with Alberto Bisin and Alessandro Lizzeri.
Present Bias and Collective Dynamic Choice in the Lab, September 2012, joint with Matthew O. Jackson.
Collective Dynamic Choice: The Necessity of Time Inconsistency, October 2010, revised October 2012, joint with Matthew O. Jackson.

Link to supplementary appendix
Sequential Deliberation, July 2010, revised July 2012, joint with Alessandro Lizzeri.
Choosing Peers: Homophily and Polarization in Groups, July 2013, joint with Mariagiovanna Baccara.
An Experimental Study of Decentralized Matching, April 2011, revised August 2013, joint with Federico Echenique.
Clearinghouses for Two-Sided Matching: An Experimental Study, December 2009, joint with Federico Echenique and Alistair Wilson, Caltech Social Science Working Paper Number 1315.

Link to experimental instructions and description of markets
Decentralized Matching with Aligned Preferences, March 2009, joint with Muriel Niederle, NBER Working Paper Number 14840.
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.
Experiments on Decisions Under Uncertainty: A Theoretical Framework, July 2012, joint with Eran Shmaya.
Conformity in the Lab, July 2006, revised August 2007, joint with Jacob K. Goeree, revise and resubmit.

Link to experimental instructions
Safety in Markets: An Impossibility Theorem for Dutch Books, August 2005, revised July 2007, joint with David Laibson.
I'll See It when I Believe It: A Simple Model of Cognitive Consistency, January 2005, under revision for resubmission.

published and forthcoming papers

Child-Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race, 2013, joint with Mariagiovanna Baccara, Allan Collard-Wexler, and Leonardo Felli, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, forthcoming.

Link to data appendix

Link to online appendix
Homophily in Peer Groups, 2013, joint with Mariagiovanna Baccara, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Volume 5(3), pages 69-96.

Link to costly information appendix
A Field Study on Matching with Network Externalities, 2012, joint with Mariagiovanna Baccara, Ayse Imrohoroglu, and Alistair Wilson The American Economic Review,Volume 102(5), pages 1773-1804 (lead article).
An Experimental Study of Collective Deliberation, 2010, joint with Jacob K. Goeree, Econometrica, Volume 79(3), pages 893-921.

Link to experimental instructions
Network Games, 2010, joint with Andrea Galeotti, Sanjeev Goyal, Matthew O. Jackson, and Fernando Vega-Redondo, The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 77(1), pages 218-244.
The Interplay between Theory and Experiments, 2010, forthcoming in The Methods of Modern Experimental Economics (edited by Guillaume Frechette and Andrew Schotter), Oxford University Press.

Link to Slides
The 1/d Law of Giving, 2010, joint with Jacob K. Goeree, Margaret A. McConnell, Tiffany Mitchell, and Tracey Tromp, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Volume 2(1), 183-203.
Diffusion, Strategic Interaction, and Social Structure, 2010, joint with Matthew O. Jackson, in the Handbook of Social Economics, (edited by Benhabib, Bisin, and Jackson), Elsevier.
Costly Expertise, 2007, joint with Dino Gerardi, Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 62, pages 436-459.
Information Acquisition in Committees, 2007, joint with Dino Gerardi, Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 62, pages 436-459.

Link to technical addendum
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
Social Networks and the Diffusion of Behavior, 2007, joint with Matthew O. Jackson, Yale Economic Review, Volume 3(2), pages 42-47.
Deliberative Voting, 2007, joint with Dino Gerardi, Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 134, pages 317-338.
Diffusion on Social Networks, 2006, joint with Matthew O. Jackson, Economie Publique, Volume 16(1), pages 69-82.
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, Slate, The Washington Post, Forbes Magazine, The Boston Globe, Telegraph, among others]
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.
Games with Espionage, 2004, joint with Eilon Solan, Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 47(1), pages 172-199.
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.
A Note on Repeated Games with Non-Monotonic Value, 1997, International Journal of Game Theory, Volume 26(2), pages 229-234.

other

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.
Book review of Case-Based Decisions, by Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler, Cambridge University Press, 2003, Economic Journal, Volume 113(485), pages F191-F192.
Last updated: August 2013
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