Evidence communication and policymaker decision-making:
(with Michael Thaler and Victor Yaneng Wang)
Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Review
Media: VoxDev
Additional Materials: Policy Brief, AEA RCT Pre-Registration Study 1 and Study 2
June 2024, Journal of Public Economics
Media: World Bank Development Impact Blog
Additional Materials: AEA RCT Pre-Registration, Office of Evaluation Sciences Summary, Companion Experiment on Transparent Defaults
(with Francesco Capozza and Krishna Srinivasan)
Additional Materials: Policy Brief, AEA RCT Pre-Registration
How Do Organizations Learn? The Diffusion of Scientific Evidence - Draft available upon request
(with Mahvish Shaukat and Andreas Stegmann)
Field experiments with policy applications:
(with Julia Brown, Sebastian Jilke, David Schwegman, and Mary Clair Turner)
Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Public Economics
Additional Materials: Office of Evaluation Sciences Summary
(with Pedro Bessone, Gautam Rao, Frank Schilbach, and Heather Schofield)
August 2021, Quarterly Journal of Economics
Media: The Guardian, Freakonomics Radio, The Conversation, Econimate, NBER Digest, VoxDev, MIT News
Additional Materials: J-PAL Evaluation Summary
Promoting Safe Opioid Disposal: Experimental Evidence on Behavioral Messaging with Financial Incentives - Draft available upon request
(with Russell Burnett, Pompa Debroy, Eugen Dimant, Jean Liu, Elana Safran, Uzaib Saya, and Bill Schultz)
Revise and Resubmit, Health Economics
Additional Materials: Office of Evaluation Sciences Summary
Payment Integrity in Government Programs: Insights from the Social and Behavioral Sciences - Draft available upon request
(with Maya Duru, Hanna Hoover, Heather Kappes, David Schwegman, Brigitte Seim, and Mary Clair Turner)
Revise and Resubmit, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS)
(with Heather Barry Kappes, Rekha Balu, Nuole Chen, Rebecca Johnson, Jessica Leight, Saad Omer, Mary Steffel, Kris-Stella Trump, David Yokum, Russ Burnett, Elana Safran, and Pompa Debroy)
September 2023, Behavioral Science and Policy
Additional Materials: Summary of OES Vaccine Evaluations
(with Gautam Rao, Susan Redline, Frank Schilbach, and Heather Schofield)
(Beliefs about) gender and discrimination:
August 2015, Journal of Sports Economics
Media: Hidden Brain (NPR)
(with Christine Exley, Raymond Fisman, Judd Kessler, Louis-Pierre Lepage, Xiaomeng Li, Corinne Low, Xiaoyue Shan, and Basit Zafar)
Beliefs about Disability - Work in progress
(with Alex Chan, Christine Exley, Hannu Kivimaki, and David Klinowski)