Research

My research using economic experiments to understand human behavior and the properties of various institutions. I have used field experiments to investigate how new policies can affect economic development through changes in behavior. I use controlled laboratory experiments to understand strategic behavior in social, political and market settings, and the dynamics and performance of alternative market mechanisms.

Publications

“Valuation Structure in Incomplete Information Contests: Experimental Evidence,” with Lucas Rentschler and Rimvydas Baltaduonis (accepted PUBLIC CHOICE)
“Auctions with Endogenous Participation and an Uncertain Number of Bidders: Experimental Evidence” with Lucas Rentschler (forthcoming EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS)
“Off the Charts: Massive Unexplained Heterogeneity in a Global Study of Ambiguity Attitudes” with Olivier l’Haridon, Ferdinand Vieider, Agustinus Bandur, Alexis Belianin, Lubomírm Cingl, Amit Kothiyal, and Peter Martinsson (forthcoming REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS)
“Informed Entry in Auctions” with Hernan Bejarano and Lucas Rentschler (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GAME THEORY, 47(1), 2018)
“Discounting and Digit Ratio: Low 2D:4D Predicts Patience for a Sample of Females” with Lucas Rentschler (FRONTIERS IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE, 11, 2018)
“Savings in Transnational Households: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador” with Dean Yang, Nava Ashraf, and Claudia Martinez (REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS, 97(2), 2015)

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“Channeling Remittances to Education: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador,” with Dean Yang and Catherine Ambler (AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL: APPLIED ECONOMICS, 7(2), 2015)
“Risk Preferences and Prenatal Exposure to Sex Hormones for Ladinos” with Rimvyidas Baltaduonis and Lucas Rentschler (PLoS ONE, 9(8), 2014)
“Valuation Structure in First Price and Least Revenue Auctions: An Experimental Investigation,” with Rimvyidas Baltaduonis and Lucas Rentschler (EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS, 17(1), 2014)

Working Papers

“Remittance Responses to Temporary Discounts: A Field Experiment among Central American Migrants”, with Catherine Ambler and Dean Yang
“The Impact of Remittance Fees on Remittance Flows: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment Among Salvadoran Migrants,” with Claudia Martínez and Dean Yang
“Endogenous Entry in Contests with Incomplete Information: Theory and Experiments," with Lucas Rentschler (under review)
“Smoothing, Discounting and Demand for Intra-Household Control for Recipients of Conditional Cash Transfers” with Szabolcs Blazsek, Lucas Rentschler and Betzy Sandoval (under review)
“Intertemporal Choice Experiments and Large Stakes Behavior” with Szabolcs Blazsek, Lucas Rentschler and Charles Sprenger (under review)

Ongoing Research
"Social Norms and Dishonesty across Societies," with Benjamin Beranek, Lucas Rentschler and Jonathan Schultz
“Rational Ignorance and Timing of Information Acquisition,” with Andrei Gomberg, Alexander Elbittar and Lucas Rentschler
“Re-Trading, Price Discovery and Efficiency under Alternative Exchange Institutions” with David Porter and Vernon Smith
"Asymmetric Information and Equilibrium Selection: Experimental Evidence," with Rimvyidas Baltaduonis and Lucas Rentschler
“Entrepreneurial Propensity, Risk and Causality: Experimental Evidence from a developing Country", with Jaime Díaz and Lucas Rentschler
Other Publications

“What can experimental economists learn from Adam Smith?” with Lucas Rentschler, in A Companion to Adam Smith, ed. Julio H. Cole (Guatemala: Universidad Francisco Marroquín) 2017
“Economic Systems Design” with David Porter and Stephen Rassenti, in Experimental Economics.Volume II: Economic Applications, ed. Pablo Brañas-Garza and Antonio Cabrales (London: Palgrave Macmillan) 2016.
“Measuring the Impact of the US Financial Crisis on Salvadoran Migrants and Family Remittances” with Sebastian Calonico, Gabriela Inchauste, Claudia Martinez and Dean Yang, in Financing the Family: Remittances to Central America in a Time of Crisis. ed. Gabriela Inchauste and Ernesto Stein, Inter-American Development Bank (New York, Palgrave Macmillan) 2013.
“Diseño de Sistemas Económicos” with David Porter and Stephen Rassenti, in Economía Experimental y del Comportamiento, ed. Pablo Brañas-Garza (Barcelona: Antoni Bosch) 2011.
“Extending the Analysis: Dominican Republic. An Assessment of the USAID Investors Roadmap and a New Institutional Economics Perspective on the Barriers to Entrepreneurship” with David Harper and Andrés Marroquín, in New Institutional Economics and Development: Case Studies and Applications; USAID, Forum 8,Mercatus Center at George Mason University and IRIS, Washington, D.C., 17 September 2003.

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