Completed Research

1. Does Forbidding Sexual Harassment Exacerbate Gender Inequality? **Job Market Paper**
   with Jasmin Sethi
   September 2009, under review, American Economic Review.  
   

2. Markets and Morality: Do Free Markets Corrode Moral Values?
   November 2009, under review, Quarterly Journal of Economics.
   

3. Can Countries Reverse Fertility Decline? Evidence from France's Marriage and Baby Bonuses, 1929-1981
   October 2009, under review, National Tax Journal.
   

4. Club Goods and Group Identity: Evidence from Islamic Resurgence During the Indonesian Financial Crisis, revision
   October 2009, revised and resubmitted, Journal of Political Economy.  
   

5. The Political Economy of Beliefs: Why Fiscal and Social Conservatives (Liberals) Come Hand-in-Hand
   with Jo Lind
   November 2005, currently under revision.
   

6. Does Economic Distress Stimulate Religious Fundamentalism?
   July 2005, currently under revision.
   

7. Gender Violence and the Price of Virginity: Theory and Evidence of Incomplete Marriage Contracts
   November 2005, currently under revision.
   

8. Pricing Wage Cuts: Evidence From a Field Experiment
   with John J. Horton
   April 2009, currently under revision.
   

9. Are There Paradigm Shifts? A Statistical Approach to Postmodern Theories of Knowledge
   August 2008, currently under revision.
   

10. Religion, Welfare Politics, and Church-State Separation
    with Jo Lind
    Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 42(1), 42-52, 2007.
    

11. Islamic Resurgence and Social Violence During the Indonesian Financial Crisis
    in Political Economy and Development, MIT Press, ed. M. Gradstein and K. Konrad, 179-200, 2007.
    

12. Income Distribution Dynamics with Endogenous Fertility
    with Michael Kremer
    Journal of Economic Growth, 7(3), 227-258, 2002.
    

13. Income Distribution Dynamics with Endogenous Fertility
    with Michael Kremer
    American Economic Review, 89(2), 155-160, 1999.
    

14. An Empirical Study Comparing the Controlled Random Search Procedure and the General Simulated Annealing Method for Function Optimization
    Proceedings of the Fourth Annual District of Columbia Computer Conference, 1995.
    

 

Working Papers

1. Trading Off Reproductive Technology and Adoption: Do IVF Subsidies Decrease Adoption Rates?
   with I. Glenn Cohen
   October 2009, invitation to publish, Capital University Law Review.
   

2. The Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty? Evidence from British Commutations During World War I, slides
   with John J. Horton
   October 2008
   

3. Electoral Cycles Without Electoral Incentives? Evidence from Appellate Judges
   with Carlos Berdejo
   September 2009  
   

4. Do People Confuse Average and Marginal Tax Rates? Evidence From a Field Experiment
   with John J. Horton
   July 2009  
   

5. A Market for Justice: The Effect of Litigation Funding on Legal Outcomes
   with David Abrams
   May 2009
   

6. Are There Stable Types? Hot and Cold Social Preferences
   with John J. Horton
   July 2009
   

7. The Economics of Crowdsourcing: A Theory of Disaggregated Labor Markets
   with John J. Horton
   January 2009
   

8. Tastes for Desert and Placation: A Reference Point-Dependent Model of Social Preferences
   with John J. Horton
   July 2009
   

9. Interim Report on a Preschool Intervention Program in Kenya
   with Paul Glewwe, Michael Kremer, and Sylvie Moulin
   June 2001
   

 

Work In Progress (grants awarded and preliminary results)

1. Do Regulatory Takings Increase Property Values?
   with Susan Yeh
   November 2009
   

2. Obscenity Law and the Commodification of Women
   with Susan Yeh
   May 2009
   

3. Priming Ideology: Is Judicial Bias Cognitive or Motivational?
   with Carlos Berdejo
   February 2009
   

4. Judicial Innovation
   with Carlos Berdejo, Andrei Shleifer, and Georgios Theophanous
   June 2008
   

5. Conflict of Interest? Pharmaceutical Payments to Physicians and Physician Prescriptions
   with David Abrams, David Chan, and Steve Olley
   July 2008
   

6. Epistemic Crowdsourcing: Incentives vs. Motivation
   with Yochai Benkler, John J. Horton, and Aaron Shaw
   August 2009
   

7. Hard and Soft Betrayals: Showing Internet Experiments Can Conquer the ANDES
   with John J. Horton and Richard J. Zeckhauser
   June 2009
   

8. The 21st Century Mechanical Turk: A True Automaton for Running Experimental Games on the Internet
   with Anna Dreber, John J. Horton, and David Rand
   April 2009
   

9. Prepared for Kauffman Summer Legal Institute (summary of experimental research)
   with John J. Horton
   July 2009
   

 

Additional Work In Progress