I am happy to announce the launch of our
Science of Philanthropy Initiative. The initiative website contains all
relevant subaward information - www.SPIhub.org.
[July
31,
2012]
PhD/upper level students - I teach a
graduate-level Experimental Economics course (CONS 901) each Spring. [see here for syllabus]
Research
Updates
My paper, "Is there a Gender Gap in
Preschoolers' Competitiveness? An Experiment in the U.S." is
forthcoming in the Journal of
Economic Behavior and Organization. I find that children as
young as 3-5 also display gender differences in competitiveness, and
that this difference appears to be ameliorated through experience. [see paper here]. [April 15,
2013]
I have recently been interested in the
evolution of pure altruism and 'warm glow' motivations for giving among
young children. Our paper (with John List) on disentangling warm glow
and pure altruism among 4- and 5- year olds was just accepted to Economics Letters. [see paper here]. [November 15,
2012]
I have written a book chapter on the use of
visual analytics in economic decision-making. The chapter appears in
"Financial Analysis and Risk Management: Data Governance, Analytics and
Life Cycle Management," edited by Victoria Lemieux. [see
the
book
here]. [November
15,
2012]
My paper, "An Experimental Study of Reputation
with Heterogeneous Goods" is now accepted in Decision Support Systems. This
paper experimentally investigates the role of a reputation system when
transactions are both in high and low value goods [see
paper
here]. [November
2,
2012]
I presented our paper (with John List) on the
use of incentives and information in child food choice at the American
Public Health Association Meetings in San Francisco, CA. [see the presentation here]. [November 1,
2012]
I have several papers forthcoming. Roman and I
have a paper, "Simultaneous Decision-Making in Competitive and
Cooperative Games" forthcoming
in
Economic
Inquiry.
My
co-authors
and
I
have
a
paper
on
visualization and
information search forthcoming in the International Journal of
Human-Computer Interaction [ see
preliminary
version
here ]. [July
31,
2012]
This past winter I gave
job market seminars at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the
University of Pennsylvania, the University of California - Santa
Barbara, Southern Methodist University, the University of Michigan, the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the George Washington
School of Business, and
Purdue University. [March
09,
2012]
I gave an invited seminar at the Rady
School of
Management at UC-San Diego on a
recent large-scale field experiment that I conducted with John List on
the effects of information and
incentives on child food choice. [February 09,
2012]
I was a discussant at the AEAs in the panel
"Informing Household Saving Decisions: Plan Features and Interventions"
on January 8th. I discussed "How Financial Literacy and Impatience
Shape Retirement Wealth and Investment Behaviors" by Olivia Mitchell
and Justine Hastings. Download
my
slides
[here] [January 09,
2012]
I was visiting the Financial Literacy Center at
the George
Washington University School of
Business the week of December 5th-8th, and presented on my work on
visual analytics for financial planning. [December 03,
2011]
I presented "Visibility of
Contributors and Cost of Information: An Experiment on Public Goods" at
the George
Mason
University
ICES
Brown
Bag
series on December 8th. [December
03,
2011]
