Recent Research Papers

NSF Acknowledgement

Experiments:

Time and Risk

"Estimating Time Preferences from Convex Budgets." with Charles Sprenger, December 2009
    *Subjects Instructions for Computer Version.

"Risk Preferences are Not Time Preferences."  with Charles Sprenger, December 2009

"Certain and Uncertain Utility: The Allais Paradox and Five Decision Theory Phenomena."  with Charles Sprenger, December 2009

"Unexpected Utility: Experimental Tests of Five Key Questions about Preferences over Risk." with William T. Harbaugh, December 2009.  Subjects' Instructions.  See a demo of a live decision screen! (requires Java)

"Uncertainty Equivalents: Linear Tests of the Independence Axiom." with Charles Sprenger, May 2010

Altruism and Social Image

"The Power of Asking: How Communication Affects Selfishness, Empathy, and Altruism." with Justin Rao, April 2010

"Social Image and the 50-50 Norm: A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Audience Effects."  with B. Douglas Bernheim. Econometrica, 77, no. 5, September 2009, 1607-1636.
   *Subjects' Instructions.   Supplemental Materials   Old 2007 Version.

"Altruism in Experiments." with William T. Harbaugh and Lise Vesterlund, prepared for The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, 2007.

"Giving Gifts to Groups: How Altruism Depends on the Number of Recipients"  Journal of Public Economics, v. 91, September 2007,1731-1749
    *Subjects' Instructions for reciprocal matching and circular matching conditions
    *Appendix table with CES estimates for each subject

"Trust, Reciprocity, and Contract Enforcement: Experiments on Satisfaction Guaranteed."  March 2005. 
    *Subjects' Instructions for the Nonbinding condition

"Analyzing Choice with Revealed Preference: Is Altruism Rational?" with John Miller, in: C.R. Plott and V.L. Smith, editors, Handbook ofExperimental Economics Results, Volume 1. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 2008, p. 481-487

"Partners versus Strangers: The Effect of Random Rematching in Public Goods Experiments." With Rachel Croson, in: C.R. Plott and V.L. Smith, editors, Handbook of Experimental Economics Results, Volume 1. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 2008, p. 776-783.

Judgment, Auctions, Econometrics for Experiments

"Diverging Opinions." with Tymofiy Mylovanov, revised, April 2010.

"The Role of Judicial Discretion in Dispute Settlement" with Ray Madoff, June 2007, revised February 2008.

"Power Indices for Revealed Preference Tests."   with William Harbaugh, March 2006. 

"Asymmetric Information about Rivals’ Types in Standard Auctions: An Experiment." with Yeon-Koo Che and Jinwoo Kim, Games and Economic Behavior, v. 59, 2007, 240-259.
    *Subjects' Instructions: 1st Price Auction, 2nd Price Auction

Public Economics:

"Is Crowding Out Due Entirely to Fundraising?  Evidence from a Panel of Charities" with A. Abigail Payne, revision, February 2009. (Formerly titled "Crowding out Both Sides of the Philanthropy Market: Evidence from a Panel of Charities" )

"Charitable Giving." prepared for The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, 2007.

"Philanthropy."   in S-C. Kolm and J. Mercier Ythier, eds.,  Handbook of Giving, Reciprocity and Altruism, Amsterdam: North Holland, 2006, page 1201-1269. Link to Science Direct

"Leadership Giving in Charitable Fund-Raising." Journal of Public Economic Theory, 8 (1), 2006, 1-22.

"Charitable Contributions of Time and Money," with W.G. Gale and J.K. Scholz. Abstract.

Links To Published Papers 

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Curriculum Vitae

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Teaching

Office Hours:

Mondays 1:00-2:00 p.m. and by appointment (email andreoni "at" ucsd.edu), 215 Economics Building.

Fall 2007

• Micro Theory Seminar
• Econ 100A:  Microeconomics 1
• Econ 143:  Experimental Economics

Other courses I have taught:

• Econ 264: Graduate Experimental Economics
• Econ 231: Graduate Public Economics

Courses taught at the University of Wisconsin

• UW Econ 301, Intermediate Microeconomics
• UW Econ 441, Undergraduate Public Economics
• UW Econ 711, Graduate Microeconomic Theory, Part I
• UW Econ 711, Graduate Microeconomic Theory, Part II
• UW Econ 741, Graduate Public Economics
• UW Econ 899, Graduate Experimental Economics

Some Links:

Jim's Economics Laboratory

Jim's involvement with CCARE (see page 7)

Jim's Advisees...where are they now?

Jim's Wall of Fame

Jim with Lennon and Lenin

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