Leonardo Bursztyn

Research Statement (2018)

Published and forthcoming papers

• Killer Incentives: Rivalry, Performance and Risk-Taking Among German Fighter Pilots, 1939-45
  (with Philipp Ager, Lukas Leucht, and Hans-Joachim Voth)

  Review of Economic Studies, Forthcoming

• Persistent Political Engagement: Social Interactions and the Dynamics of Protest Movements
  (with Davide Cantoni, David Y. Yang, Noam Yuchtman, and Y. Jane Zhang)

  American Economic Review: Insights, 3(2): 233-250 (2021)
  Replication files
  

• From Extreme to Mainstream: The Erosion of Social Norms
  (with Georgy Egorov and Stefano Fiorin)

  American Economic Review, 110(11): 3522-3548 (2020)
  Replication files
  

• Misperceived Social Norms: Women Working Outside the Home in Saudi Arabia
  (with Alessandra González and David Yanagizawa-Drott)

  American Economic Review, 110(10): 2997-3029 (2020) [Lead article]
  Replication files
  

• Political Identity: Experimental Evidence on Anti-Americanism in Pakistan
  (with Michael Callen, Bruno Ferman, Saad Gulzar, Ali Hasanain, and Noam Yuchtman)

  Journal of the European Economic Association, 18(5): 2532-2560 (2020)
  Replication files
  

• Moral Incentives in Credit Card Debt Repayment: Evidence from a Field Experiment
  (with Stefano Fiorin, Daniel Gottlieb, and Martin Kanz)

  Journal of Political Economy, 127(4): 1641-1683 (2019)
  Replication files
  

• Cool to Be Smart or Smart to Be Cool? Understanding Peer Pressure in Education
  (with Georgy Egorov and Robert Jensen)

  Review of Economic Studies, 86(4): 1487-1526 (2019)
  Replication files
  

• Status Goods: Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards
  (with Bruno Ferman, Stefano Fiorin, Martin Kanz, and Gautam Rao)

  Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(3): 1561-1595 (2018)
  Replication files
  

• ’Acting Wife:’ Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments
  (with Thomas Fujiwara and Amanda Pallais)

  American Economic Review, 107(11): 3288-3319 (2017)
  Replication files
  

• Social Image and Economic Behavior in the Field: Identifying, Understanding and Shaping Social Pressure
  (with Robert Jensen)

  Annual Review of Economics, 9: 131-153 (2017)

• Poverty and the Political Economy of Public Education Spending: Evidence from Brazil

  Journal of the European Economic Association, 14(5): 1101-1128 (2016)
  Supplemental Appendix, Replication files
  

• A Tear in the Iron Curtain: The Impact of Western Television on Consumption Behavior
  (with Davide Cantoni)
  

  Review of Economics and Statistics, 98(1): 25-41 (2016)
  Supplemental Appendix, Replication files
  

• How Does Peer Pressure Affect Educational Investments?
  (with Robert Jensen)
  

  Quarterly Journal of Economics, 130(3): 1329-1367 (2015)
  Supplemental Appendix, Replication files
  

• Understanding Mechanisms Underlying Peer Effects: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Financial Decisions
  (with Florian Ederer, Bruno Ferman, and Noam Yuchtman)
  

  Econometrica, 82(4): 1273-1301 (2014)
  Supplemental Appendix, Replication files
  

• The Schooling Decision: Family Preferences, Intergenerational Conflict, and Moral Hazard in the Brazilian Favelas
  (with Lucas C. Coffman)

  Journal of Political Economy, 120(3): 359-397 (2012) [Lead article]
  Supplemental Appendix, Replication files
  

• The Environment and Directed Technical Change
  (with Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion, and David Hemous)

  American Economic Review, 102(1): 131–166 (2012)
  Supplemental Appendix, Replication files
  

Other publications

• Preserving the Environment
  (with Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt)
  In Aghion, P. and P. Howitt, The Economics of Growth, MIT Press (2008)

Working papers

• Social Media and Xenophobia: Evidence from Russia
  (with Georgy Egorov, Ruben Enikolopov, and Maria Petrova)

• Do Polls Affect Elections? Evidence from Swiss Referenda
  (with Davide Cantoni, Patricia Funk, Felix Schönenberger, and Noam Yuchtman)

• Opinions as Facts
  (with Aakaash Rao, Christopher Roth, and David Yanagizawa-Drott)
  This supersedes a previous draft circulated unde the title Misinformation During a Pandemic

• Disguising Prejudice: Popular Rationales as Excuses for Intolerant Expression
  (with Ingar Haaland, Aakaash Rao, and Christopher Roth)

• The Immigrant Next Door: Exposure, Prejudice, and Altruism
  (with Thomas Chaney, Tarek Hassan, and Aakaash Rao)