Publications

Peer Reviewed Publications

• “Measuring Norms: Assessing the threat of Social Desirability Bias to the Bicchieri and Xiao elicitation method” with Francesco Bogliacino and Erik Kimbrough (JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION, 222)

• “Does free information provision crowd out costly information acquisition? It’s a matter of timing” with Andrei Gomberg, Alexander Elbittar and Lucas Rentschler (GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR, 141, 2023)

• “Social Norms and Dishonesty across Societies” with Benjamin Beranek, Lucas Rentschler and Jonathan Schulz (PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 119(31), 2022)

• “Intertemporal Choice Experiments and Large Stakes Behavior” with Szabolcs Blazsek, Lucas Rentschler and Charles Sprenger (JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION, 196, 2022)

• “Endogenous Entry in Contests with Incomplete Information: Theory and Experiments," with Lucas Rentschler (EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, 60, 2019)

• “Smoothing, Discounting and Demand for Intra-Household Control for Recipients of Conditional Cash Transfers” with Szabolcs Blazsek, Lucas Rentschler and Betzy Sandoval (JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECONOMICS, 22(1) 2019)

• “Valuation Structure in Incomplete Information Contests: Experimental Evidence,” with Lucas Rentschler and Rimvydas Baltaduonis. (PUBLIC CHOICE, 179(3-4), 2019)

• “Auctions with Endogenous Participation and an Uncertain Number of Bidders: Experimental Evidence” with Lucas Rentschler (EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS, 21(4), 2018)

• “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 (REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS100(4), 2018)

• “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)

Forthcoming Publications 

• “Relative Feedback Response in Competitive Environments” with Rimvydas Baltaduonis, Haylee Downey, Kristian Fors, and Lucas Rentschler (accepted, REVIEW OF BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS)

• “Interactions in a High Immigration Context” with Francisco B. Galarza and Javier Torres (accepted, LATIN AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW) 

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.