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Working Papers

2009

Are CEOs Expected Utility Maximizers?
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
Do Women Supply more Public Goods than Men?
Working Papers, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Economics
The Economics of Open Air Markets
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2002

A Possibility Theorem on Aggregation Over Multiple Interconnected Propositions
Economics Series Working Papers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics View citations
Bidding Behavior and Decision Costs in Field Experiments
Framed Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website View citations
Also in Working Papers, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University (2000) View citations
See also Journal Article in Economic Inquiry (2002)
CLOSING THE BARN DOOR: CONSTRUCTION AND ENDANGERED SPECIES RESTRICTIONS
2002 Annual Meeting, July 28-31, 2002, Long Beach, California, Western Agricultural Economics Association
Calibration of Willingness-to-Accept
Framed Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website View citations
See also Journal Article in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2002)
Laboratory Testbeds and Nonmarket Valuation: The Case of Bidding Behavior in a Second Price Auction with an Outside Option
Working Papers, Department of Economics, Appalachian State University View citations
See also Journal Article in Environmental & Resource Economics (2004)
Preference Learning in Consecutive Experimental Auctions
Staff General Research Papers, Iowa State University, Department of Economics View citations
See also Journal Article in American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2000)
Testing Neoclassical Competitive Market Theory in the Field
Framed Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website View citations
Testing Neoclassical Competitive Market Theory in the Field: Some Pilot Results
Framed Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website
The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Real Progress or Misspecified Models?
Working Papers, University of Guelph, Department of Economics View citations
See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2003)

2000

The Effects of Seed Money and Refunds on Charitable Giving: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign
Working Papers, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University View citations
See also Journal Article in Journal of Political Economy (2002)

1998

Calibration of the difference between actual and hypothetical valuations in a field experiment
Framed Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website View citations
See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (1998)
Hypothetical-Actual Bid Calibration of a Multi-Good Auction
Framed Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website View citations
See also Journal Article in Economics Letters (1998)

Undated

Bounding the Impact of Market Experience on Rationality: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Imperfect Compliance
Departmental Working Papers, Southern Methodist University, Department of Economics View citations

Journal Articles

2009

Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future
European Economic Review, 2009, 53, (1), 1-18 View citations
See also Working Paper (2008)
Gender Differences in Competition: Evidence From a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society
Econometrica, 2009, 77, (5), 1637-1664 View citations
See also Working Paper (2008)
Rebate rules in threshold public good provision
Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93, (5-6), 798-806
See also Working Paper (2008)
The role of social connections in charitable fundraising: Evidence from a natural field experiment
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2009, 69, (2), 160-169 View citations

2008

A liberal paradox for judgment aggregation
Social Choice and Welfare, 2008, 31, (1), 59-78 View citations
Do Women Supply More Public Goods Than Men? Preliminary Experimental Evidence from Matrilineal and Patriarchal Societies
American Economic Review, 2008, 98, (2), 376-81 View citations
Examining the role of fairness in high stakes allocation decisions
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2008, 65, (1), 1-8 View citations
See also Working Paper (2004)
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study
American Economic Review, 2008, 98, (2), 370-75
Introduction to field experiments in economics with applications to the economics of charity
Experimental Economics, 2008, 11, (3), 203-212 View citations
Is Hypothetical Bias a Universal Phenomenon? A Multinational Investigation
Land Economics, 2008, 84, (3), 489-500
Judgment aggregation without full rationality
Social Choice and Welfare, 2008, 31, (1), 15-39 View citations
Naturally Occurring Markets and Exogenous Laboratory Experiments: A Case Study of the Winner's Curse
Economic Journal, 2008, 118, (528), 822-843 View citations
See also Working Paper (2007)
The Market: Catalyst for Rationality and Filter of Irrationality
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2008, 8, (1)
See also Working Paper (2005)

2007

A Test of Diminishing Marginal Value
Economica, 2007, 74, (296), 650-663
A fundraising mechanism inspired by historical tontines: Theory and experimental evidence
Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91, (9), 1750-1782
Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment
American Economic Review, 2007, 97, (5), 1774-1793 View citations
See also Working Paper (2006)
Field Experiments: A Bridge between Lab and Naturally Occurring Data
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2007, advances.6, (2)
See also Working Paper (2007)
Information Cascades: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Financial Market Professionals
Journal of Finance, 2007, 62, (1), 151-180 View citations
See also Working Paper (2003)
Naturally Occurring Preferences and Exogenous Laboratory Experiments: A Case Study of Risk Aversion
Econometrica, 2007, 75, (2), 433-458 View citations
On the Interpretation of Giving in Dictator Games
Journal of Political Economy, 2007, 115, 482-493 View citations
REGULATORY FEDERALISM AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF AIR POLLUTANT EMISSIONS
Journal of Regional Science, 2007, 47, (1), 155-178 View citations
See also Working Paper (2004)
USING LOTTERIES TO FINANCE PUBLIC GOODS: THEORY AND EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE
International Economic Review, 2007, 48, (3), 901-927 View citations
Using "Ex Ante" Approaches to Obtain Credible Signals for Value in Contingent Markets: Evidence from the Field
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 89, (2), 420-429 View citations
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field
Canadian Journal of Economics, 2007, 40, (2), 347-370 View citations
What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World?
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007, 21, (2), 153-174 View citations

2006

DEMAND REDUCTION IN MULTI-UNIT AUCTIONS WITH VARYING NUMBERS OF BIDDERS: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM A FIELD EXPERIMENT *
International Economic Review, 2006, 47, (1), 203-231 View citations
See also Working Paper (2006)
Economic Valuation of Health for Environmental Policy: Comparing Alternative Approaches. Introduction and Overview
Environmental & Resource Economics, 2006, 34, (3), 339-346
Friend or Foe? A Natural Experiment of the Prisoner's Dilemma
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006, 88, (3), 463-471 View citations
See also Working Paper (2006)
How Elections Matter: Theory and Evidence from Environmental Policy
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2006, 121, (4), 1249-1281 View citations
See also Working Paper (2006)
Non-renewable resource prices: Deterministic or stochastic trends?
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2006, 51, (3), 354-370 View citations
See also Working Paper (2005)
Putting Behavioral Economics to Work: Testing for Gift Exchange in Labor Markets Using Field Experiments
Econometrica, 2006, 74, (5), 1365-1384 View citations
See also Working Paper (2006)
Shadow prices, environmental stringency, and international competitiveness
European Economic Review, 2006, 50, (5), 1151-1167 View citations
The Behavioralist Meets the Market: Measuring Social Preferences and Reputation Effects in Actual Transactions
Journal of Political Economy, 2006, 114, (1), 1-37 View citations
See also Working Paper (2005)
The Uncertainty Effect: When a Risky Prospect Is Valued Less Than Its Worst Possible Outcome
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2006, 121, (4), 1283-1309 View citations
See also Working Paper (2006)
Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Charity: Evidence from a Field Experiment
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2006, 121, (2), 747-782 View citations
See also Working Paper (2005)
Using Choice Experiments to Value Non-Market Goods and Services: Evidence from Field Experiments
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2006, advances.6, (2)
Using Hicksian Surplus Measures to Examine Consistency of Individual Preferences: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2006, 108, (1), 115-134 View citations
See also Working Paper (2006)

2005

Conspiraces and Secret Price Discounts in the Marketplace: Evidence from Field Experiments
RAND Journal of Economics, 2005, 36, (3), 700-717
See also Working Paper (2005)
Cyclicality and the Labor Market for Economists
Southern Economic Journal, 2005, 72, (2), 284–304
See also Working Paper (2004)
Demand Reduction in Multi-Unit Auctions: Evidence from a Sportscard Field Experiment: Reply
American Economic Review, 2005, 95, (1), 472-476
Do Professional Traders Exhibit Myopic Loss Aversion? An Experimental Analysis
Journal of Finance, 2005, 60, (1), 523-534 View citations
See also Working Paper (2005)
Experimental approaches to public economics: guest editors' introduction
Journal of Public Economics, 2005, 89, (8), 1355-1359
Introduction
Environmental & Resource Economics, 2005, 31, (2), 121-121 View citations
Investigating Risky Choices Over Losses Using Experimental Data
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2005, 31, (2), 187-215 View citations
Scientific Numerology, Preference Anomalies, and Environmental Policymaking
Environmental & Resource Economics, 2005, 32, (1), 35-53 View citations
The effect of varying the causes of environmental problems on stated WTP values: evidence from a field study
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2005, 49, (2), 330-342 View citations
See also Working Paper (2004)
When Economists Dream, They Dream of Clear Skies
The Economists' Voice, 2005, 2, (2)

2004

Chasing the smokestack: strategic policymaking with multiple instruments
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2004, 34, (4), 387-410 View citations
See also Working Paper (2003)
Do causes of environmental problems affect Hicksian equivalent surplus? Evidence from the field
Economics Letters, 2004, 85, (2), 157-162
Effects of environmental regulation on foreign and domestic plant births: is there a home field advantage?
Journal of Urban Economics, 2004, 56, (2), 303-326 View citations
Examining Trends of Criteria Air Pollutants: Are the Effects of Governmental Intervention Transitory?
Environmental & Resource Economics, 2004, 29, (1), 21-37 View citations
Examining the Role of Social Isolation on Stated Preferences
American Economic Review, 2004, 94, (3), 741-752 View citations
Field Experiments
Journal of Economic Literature, 2004, 42, (4), 1009-1055 View citations
Intellectual Property Rights, Environmental Regulations, and Foreign Direct Investment
Land Economics, 2004, 80, (2), 153-173
Is foreign direct investment attracted to 'knowledge creators'?
Applied Economics, 2004, 36, (11), 1143-1149 View citations
Laboratory Testbeds and Non-Market Valuation: The Case of Bidding Behavior in a Second-Price Auction with an Outside Option
Environmental & Resource Economics, 2004, 29, (3), 285-294 View citations
See also Working Paper (2002)
Neoclassical Theory Versus Prospect Theory: Evidence from the Marketplace
Econometrica, 2004, 72, (2), 615-625 View citations
See also Working Paper (2004)
Substitutability, experience, and the value disparity: evidence from the marketplace
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2004, 47, (3), 486-509 View citations
See also Working Paper (2004)
Testing Neoclassical Competitive Theory in Multilateral Decentralized Markets
Journal of Political Economy, 2004, 112, (5), 1131-1156 View citations
See also Working Paper (2006)
The Case of the Missing Pollution Haven Hypothesis
Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2004, 26, (3), 239-262 View citations
The Hidden Costs and Returns of Incentives-Trust and Trustworthiness Among CEOs
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2, (5), 743-771 View citations
See also Working Paper (2004)
The Nature and Extent of Discrimination in the Marketplace: Evidence from the Field
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004, 119, (1), 49-89 View citations
The Unintended Disincentive in the Clean Air Act
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2004, advances.4, (2)
The multiplier effect of globalization
Economics Letters, 2004, 83, (3), 285-292 View citations
Valuation on the Frontier: Calibrating Actual and Hypothetical Statements of Value
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2004, 86, (1), 213-221 View citations
See also Working Paper (2004)
Young, Selfish and Male: Field evidence of social preferences
Economic Journal, 2004, 114, (492), 121-149 View citations

2003

A Natural Experiment on the 'Race to the Bottom' Hypothesis: Testing for Stochastic Dominance in Temporal Pollution Trends
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2003, 65, (4), 395-420 View citations
Are CO2 Emission Levels Converging Among Industrial Countries?
Environmental & Resource Economics, 2003, 24, (3), 263-271
Bureaucratic corruption, environmental policy and inbound US FDI: theory and evidence
Journal of Public Economics, 2003, 87, (7-8), 1407-1430 View citations
Cigarette demand: a meta-analysis of elasticities
Health Economics, 2003, 12, (10), 821-835 View citations
Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies?
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2003, 118, (1), 41-71 View citations
Effects of Environmental Regulations on Manufacturing Plant Births: Evidence from a Propensity Score Matching Estimator
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003, 85, (4), 944-952 View citations
Effects of air quality regulation on the destination choice of relocating plants
Oxford Economic Papers, 2003, 55, (4), 657-678 View citations
The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Real Progress or Misspecified Models?
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003, 85, (4), 1038-1047 View citations
See also Working Paper (2002)
The impact of challenge gifts on charitable giving: an experimental investigation
Economics Letters, 2003, 79, (2), 153-159 View citations
Trade liberalization, corruption, and environmental policy formation: theory and evidence
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2003, 46, (3), 490-512 View citations
Using Random nth Price Auctions to Value Non-market Goods and Services
Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2003, 23, (2), 193-205 View citations
See also Working Paper (2003)

2002

"Beggar Thy Neighbor": Testing for Free Riding in State-Level Endangered Species Expenditures
Public Choice, 2002, 111, (3-4), 303-15 View citations
Aggregation bias in the economic model of crime
Economics Letters, 2002, 75, (1), 81-86 View citations
Bidding Behavior and Decision Costs in Field Experiments
Economic Inquiry, 2002, 40, (4), 611-619 View citations
See also Working Paper (2002)
Calibration of Willingness-to-Accept
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2002, 43, (2), 219-233 View citations
See also Working Paper (2002)
Environmental Regulations and New Plant Location Decisions: Evidence from a Meta-Analysis
Journal of Regional Science, 2002, 42, (1), 19-49 View citations
Gender differences in revealed risk taking: evidence from mutual fund investors
Economics Letters, 2002, 76, (2), 151-158 View citations
Intradimensional Single-Peakedness and the Multidimensional Arrow Problem
Theory and Decision, 2002, 52, (3), 287-301
Preference Reversals of a Different Kind: The "More Is Less" Phenomenon
American Economic Review, 2002, 92, (5), 1636-1643 View citations
The Effects of Seed Money and Refunds on Charitable Giving: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign
Journal of Political Economy, 2002, 110, (1), 215-233 View citations
See also Working Paper (2000)

2001

A random nth-price auction
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2001, 46, (4), 409-421 View citations
Academic Economists Behaving Badly? A Survey on Three Areas of Unethical Behavior
Economic Inquiry, 2001, 39, (1), 162-70 View citations
Auction mechanisms and the measurement of WTP and WTA
Resource and Energy Economics, 2001, 23, (2), 97-109 View citations
Determinants of Securing Academic Interviews after Tenure Denial: Evidence from a Zero-Inflated Poisson Model
Applied Economics, 2001, 33, (11), 1423-31 View citations
Do Explicit Warnings Eliminate the Hypothetical Bias in Elicitation Procedures? Evidence from Field Auctions for Sportscards
American Economic Review, 2001, 91, (5), 1498-1507 View citations
Market share instability: an application of unit root tests to the cigarette industry
Journal of Economics and Business, 2001, 53, (5), 473-480 View citations
Optimal Institutional Arrangements for Transboundary Pollutants in a Second-Best World: Evidence from a Differential Game with Asymmetric Players
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2001, 42, (3), 277-296 View citations
US county-level determinants of inbound FDI: evidence from a two-step modified count data model
International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2001, 19, (6), 953-973 View citations
What Experimental Protocol Influence Disparities Between Actual and Hypothetical Stated Values?
Environmental & Resource Economics, 2001, 20, (3), 241-254 View citations

2000

Average Derivative Estimation of Hedonic Price Models
Environmental & Resource Economics, 2000, 16, (1), 81-91
Demand Reduction in Multiunit Auctions: Evidence from a Sportscard Field Experiment
American Economic Review, 2000, 90, (4), 961-972 View citations
Environmental Protection and Economic Growth: What Do the Residuals Tell Us?
Land Economics, 2000, 76, (2), 267-282 View citations
Interview Scheduling Strategies of New Ph.D. Economists
Journal of Economic Education, 2000, 31, (2), 191-201 View citations
Learning to Accept in Ultimatum Games: Evidence from an Experimental Design that Generates Low Offers
Experimental Economics, 2000, 3, (1), 11-29 View citations
Measuring the effects of air quality regulations on "dirty" firm births: Evidence from the neo- and mature-regulatory periods
Papers in Regional Science, 2000, 79, (2), 177-190 View citations
Preference Learning in Consecutive Experimental Auctions
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2000, 82, (4), 1016-21 View citations
See also Working Paper (2002)
Regulatory Federalism and Environmental Protection in the United States
Journal of Regional Science, 2000, 40, (3), 453-471 View citations
The Effects of Environmental Regulations on Foreign Direct Investment
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2000, 40, (1), 1-20 View citations

1999

Evidence of Early Withdrawal in Time Deposit Portfolios
Journal of Financial Services Research, 1999, 15, (2), 103-122 View citations
Have Air Pollutant Emissions Converged Among U.S. Regions? Evidence from Unit Root Tests
Southern Economic Journal, 1999, 66, (1), 144-155 View citations
Spatial aspects of pollution control when pollutants have synergistic effects: Evidence from a differential game with asymmetric information
The Annals of Regional Science, 1999, 33, (4), 439-452
The Kuznets Curve: What Happens after the Inverted-U?
Review of Development Economics, 1999, 3, (2), 200-206 View citations
The environmental Kuznets curve: does one size fit all?
Ecological Economics, 1999, 31, (3), 409-423 View citations

1998

A method for valuing global ecosystem services
Ecological Economics, 1998, 27, (2), 161-170 View citations
Calibration of the difference between actual and hypothetical valuations in a field experiment
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1998, 37, (2), 193-205 View citations
See also Working Paper (1998)
Divorce: Evidence from Florida counties
Atlantic Economic Journal, 1998, 26, (1), 116-116
Elasticities of beer demand revisited
Economics Letters, 1998, 61, (1), 67-71
Hypothetical-actual bid calibration of a multigood auction
Economics Letters, 1998, 60, (3), 263-268 View citations
See also Working Paper (1998)
Industry Chasing and the Tax Effect: A Question of Approach
Applied Economics Letters, 1998, 5, (6), 347-50
The Deadweight Loss of Christmas: Comment
American Economic Review, 1998, 88, (5), 1350-55 View citations