Research

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: Freakonomics Radio, 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) 

Forthcoming, Behavioral Science and Policy

Additional Materials: Summary of OES Vaccine Evaluations

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

Understanding and Increasing Policymakers' Sensitivity to Program Impact 

(with Elizabeth Bell)

Media: World Bank Development Impact Blog

Additional Materials: AEA RCT Pre-Registration, Office of Evaluation Sciences Summary 

The Transparency Gap 

(with Christine Exley, Raymond Fisman, Judd Kessler, Corinne Low, and Xiaoyue Shan)