Welcome to my website! I am an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan.  Previously, I was an Associate Professor in the NOM unit at Harvard Business School, and I earned my Economics PhD from Stanford University. You may contact me at exley at umich.edu.

My main fields of study are gender, experimental economics, and behavioral economics.  In my work on gender, I focus on the drivers of gender gaps in the labor market, such as those that relate to negotiation, discrimination, and self-promotion.  In my other work, I focus on how to encourage more charitable giving and volunteering, often by investigating how individuals exploit excuses not to give. I also study the drivers of (in)equity concerns more broadly.  You may learn more about my papers  here.

Much of my non-academic work relates to efforts to help dogs in need of homes find homes as well as serving on the Board of Directors for Students Helping Honduras and on the Strategic Council for the Foundation Fighting Blindness. 

You may access my CV here.