Evidence communication and policymaker decision-making:
Publications
Understanding and Increasing Policymakers' Sensitivity to Program Impact
(with Elizabeth Bell)
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
Working papers
(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
How Do Organizations Learn? The Diffusion of Scientific Evidence on Generative AI
(with Mahvish Shaukat and Andreas Stegmann)
Science by Consensus: Eliciting Citizens' and Experts' R&D Spending Priorities
(with Francesco Capozza and Krishna Srinivasan)
Additional Materials: Policy Brief, Macroscience Blog Post, Survey Instructions, AEA RCT Pre-Registration
Work in progress
Nested Communications (with Ying Gao and Michael Thaler)
Evaluating IPA's Embedded Labs Program (with Woojin Kim and Matthew Ridley)
Field experiments with policy applications:
Publications
The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor
(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
Informing Sleep Policy Through Field Experiments
(with Gautam Rao, Susan Redline, Frank Schilbach, and Heather Schofield)
October 2021, Science
Lessons for COVID-19 Vaccination from Eight Federal Government Communication Evaluations
(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 Russell Burnett, Pompa Debroy, Eugen Dimant, Jean Liu, Elana Safran, Uzaib Saya, and Bill Schultz)
March 2026, Health Economics
Additional Materials: Office of Evaluation Sciences Summary
Working papers
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 Sciences (PNAS)
Improving Tax Compliance Among the Clients of Tax Preparers
(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
Work in progress
Information Projection in Health Communication (with Sami Horn and Anne Karing)
(Beliefs about) gender and discrimination:
Publications
Missed Shots at the Free-Throw Line: Analyzing the Determinants of Choking Under Pressure
August 2015, Journal of Sports Economics
Media: Hidden Brain (NPR)
Working papers
Information-Optional Policies and the Gender Concealment Gap
(with Christine Exley, Raymond Fisman, Judd Kessler, Louis-Pierre Lepage, Xiaomeng Li, Corinne Low, Xiaoyue Shan, and Basit Zafar)
Work in progress
Beliefs about Disability (with Alex Chan, Christine Exley, Hannu Kivimaki, and David Klinowski)