Research

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 

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

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

Numbers Tell, Words Sell

(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

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

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)  

Invited Submission, Special Feature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS)

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)

Science by Consensus: Eliciting Citizens' and Experts' R&D Spending Priorities

(with Francesco Capozza and Krishna Srinivasan)

Additional Materials: Policy Brief, AEA RCT Pre-Registration

How Do Organizations Learn? The Diffusion of Scientific Evidence on Generative AI - Draft available upon request

(with Mahvish Shaukat and Andreas Stegmann) 

Policy Papers

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

Electronic Blood Glucose Monitoring Impacts on Provider and Patient Behavior

(with Allyson Root, Christopher Connolly, Season Majors, and Hassan Ahmed)

August 2022, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Additional Materials: Office of Evaluation Science Summary

Promoting Responsible Disposal of Opioids: A Randomized Evaluation of Behaviorally Informed Messaging Combined with a Financial Incentive  - 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