Recent Research Papers

NSF Acknowledgement

Public Economics:

"Crowding out Both Sides of the Philanthropy Market: Evidence from a Panel of Charities" with A. Abigail Payne, August 2007.

"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.

Experiments:

"Social Image and the 50-50 Norm: A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Audience Effects." with B. Douglas Bernheim, August 2007.
   *Subjects' Instructions.

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

"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

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

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

"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

"Revealing Preferences for Fairness in Ultimatum Bargaining" with Marco Castillo and Ragan Petrie, April 2004.
    * Reviewed on NAJ Economics, 2005, volume 9
    *Proposers' Instructions, Responders' Instructions for the Standard Game
     * Non-Parametric estimates of best-reply functions for all subjects.

"Beauty, Gender and Stereotypes: Evidence From Laboratory Experiments." with Ragan Petrie. Journal of Economic Psychology, v. 29, 2008, 73-93.
    * Subjects' Instructions for the Information-and-Photos condition.

"Building Rational Cooperation" with Larry Samuelson. Journal of Economic Theory, 127, 2006, p 117-154.
   * Subjects' Instructions.
    * Reviewed on NAJ Economics, 2003, volume 6

"Testing Subgame Perfection Apart From Fairness in Ultimatum Games." with Emily Blanchard, Experimental Economics, 9, 2006, 307-321..
    * Subjects' Instructions: regular, round-robin, tournament.

"Analyzing Choice with Revealed Preference: Is Altruism Rational?" with John Miller. To appear in V. Smith and C. Plott, eds., Handbook of Experimental Economics Results, 2008.

"Partners versus Strangers: The Effect of Random Rematching in Public Goods Experiments." With Rachel Croson. To appear in V. Smith and C. Plott, eds., Handbook of Experimental Economics Results, 2008.