Academia
Current Research:
- Information and college major choice (with Anand Shukla)
- Drinking laws and drinking and driving
Past Research:
- Alternative methods to valuing privately-held companies (summer project for UCSB DIGSSS Summer Research Fellowship; thanks to Gary Charness).
- "Forgone Interest and Contract Mispricing In Predictive Markets." Journal of Prediction Markets, December 2008. (With Lawrence Raifman). Abstract or Journal of Prediction Markets
- "Prediction market efficiency, the post-convention 'bounce', and contract pricing in presidential elections from 1988-2008." (Senior Undergraduate Thesis). Thanks to Ting-Ting Zhou and Dr. Caroline Fohlin for their help and support. PDF
- "Practice effects are significant in subjects performing multiple dual-task performances experiments." Working paper, November 2008. PDF
- Using predictive markets to judge an Initial Public Offering of Facebook. Contracts are now listed here thanks to intrade.com. More generally, predictive markets can be used to create trade-able pseudo-equity which can be used to estimate market capitalization of a company (PDF).
- I spent the summer of 2008 and winter of 2009 working on the Baltimore Experience Corps Study through JHMI (Johns Hopkins Hospital) with Dr. Rachel Piferi.