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Working Papers

2020

1. COVID-19 Changed Tastes for Safety-Net Programs
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
2. Correlation Neglect in Student-to-School Matching
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
3. Immigration Lottery Design: Engineered and Coincidental Consequences of H-1B Reforms
   Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (3)
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2020) View citations (6)
4. Reversing Reserves
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
   Also in Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics (2020)
5. The Negative Consequences of Loss-Framed Performance Incentives
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2019

6. Price Isn’t Everything: Behavioral Response around Changes in Sin Taxes
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)

2018

7. An Experimental Investigation of Preference Misrepresentation in the Residency Match
   Papers, arXiv.org View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article in The National Academy of Sciences (2018)

2017

8. Taxing Humans: Pitfalls of the Mechanism Design Approach and Potential Resolutions
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   See also Chapter (2017)
   Journal Article in Tax Policy and the Economy (2018)

2016

9. Attention Variation and Welfare: Theory and Evidence from a Tax Salience Experiment
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (12)
   Also in Natural Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website (2016) View citations (19)
   See also Journal Article in Review of Economic Studies (2018)
10. Measuring “Schmeduling”
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (9)

2013

11. Can Marginal Rates of Substitution Be Inferred from Happiness Data? Evidence from Residency Choices
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (20)
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2014)

2010

12. Do People Seek to Maximize Happiness? Evidence from New Surveys
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (8)

Journal Articles

2018

1. An experimental investigation of preference misrepresentation in the residency match
   The National Academy of Sciences, 2018, 115, (45), 11471-11476
   See also Working Paper (2018)
2. Attention Variation and Welfare: Theory and Evidence from a Tax Salience Experiment
   Review of Economic Studies, 2018, 85, (4), 2462-2496 View citations (28)
   See also Working Paper (2016)
3. Quantifying Loss-Averse Tax Manipulation
   Review of Economic Studies, 2018, 85, (2), 1251-1278 View citations (21)
4. Suboptimal behavior in strategy-proof mechanisms: Evidence from the residency match
   Games and Economic Behavior, 2018, 108, (C), 317-330 View citations (24)
5. Taxing Humans: Pitfalls of the Mechanism Design Approach and Potential Resolutions
   Tax Policy and the Economy, 2018, 32, (1), 107 - 133 View citations (1)
   See also Chapter (2017)
   Working Paper (2017)

2017

6. Mistaken Play in the Deferred Acceptance Algorithm: Implications for Positive Assortative Matching
   American Economic Review, 2017, 107, (5), 225-29 View citations (6)

2014

7. Can Marginal Rates of Substitution Be Inferred from Happiness Data? Evidence from Residency Choices
   American Economic Review, 2014, 104, (11), 3498-3528 View citations (57)
   See also Working Paper (2013)

2012

8. What Do You Think Would Make You Happier? What Do You Think You Would Choose?
   American Economic Review, 2012, 102, (5), 2083-2110 View citations (190)

Chapters

2017

1. Taxing Humans: Pitfalls of the Mechanism Design Approach and Potential Resolutions
   A chapter in Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 32, 2017, pp 107-133
   See also Journal Article in Tax Policy and the Economy (2018)
   Working Paper (2017)