CV
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Academic Positions
Associate Professor in Economics, Appalachian State University, 2020-present
Visiting Adjunct Professor, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Fall 2021
Assistant Professor in Economics, Appalachian State University, 2017-2020
Assistant Professor in Economics, University of South Dakota, 2013-2017
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, June 2013
M.A. in Economics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, May 2011
B.S. in Economics, Brigham Young University-Idaho, Rexburg, ID, April 2008
Fields of Interest
Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Applied Game Theory, Public Economics, Industrial Organization
Publications
“Naturally occurring enhancements to competition for talent in teams” (with Abhijit Ramalingam and Jimmy Walker)
Experimental Economics, [Accepted]
“Inequality and the allocation of collective goods” (with Caleb Cox)
Journal of Economics Behavior and Organization, [Forthcoming]
“Does reducing inequality increase competition?” (with Abhijit Ramalingam )
Journal of Economics Behavior and Organization [Forthcoming]
"Experimental (re-)analysis of the house-money effect in a public goods game" (with Nick Bailey [student] and Abhijit Ramalingam)
Journal of the Economic Science Association, 9(1), 2023.
"Strategic Thinking in Contests" (with David Bruner, Caleb Cox, and David McEvoy)
Experimental Economics, 25(3), 2022.
"Common-Value Public Goods and Informational Social Dilemmas" (with Caleb Cox) AppState IDEAS working paper: 18-04
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 13, 2021.
"Incentivizing Provision of Collective Goods: Allocation Rules" (with Caleb Cox and James Walker)
Southern Economic Journal, 87, 2021.
"Within-group inequality in inter-group competition'" with (Shaun Hargreaves-Heap and Abhijit Ramalingam)
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 90, 2021.
"Incentivized Torts: An Empirical Analysis" (with J. Shahar Dillbary and Cherie Metcalf)
Northwestern Law Review, Peer-Reviewed Special Empirical Issue (top ten law review), 115, 2021
"Is a Fine Still a Price? Replication as Robustness in Empirical Legal Studies" (with Cherie Metcalf, Emily Satterthwaite, and J. Shahar Dillbary)
International Review of Law and Economics, 63, 2020.
"The Market for Talent: Competition for Resources and Self-Governance in Teams" (with Abhijit Ramalingam and James Walker)
Games and Economic Behavior, 114, 2019
"Strategic Thinking in Public Goods Games with Teams" (with Caleb Cox)
Journal of Public Economics, 161, 2018 (Appendices)
"Risk in Payoff-Equivalent Appropriation and Provision Games"
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 69, 2017.
"Endowment Inequality in Public Goods Games: A Re-Examination" (with Shaun Hargreaves-Heap and Abhijit Ramalingam)
Economics Letters, 146, 2016.
"'Doggedness' or 'Disengagement'? An Experiment on the Effect of Inequality in Endowment on Behavior in Team Competitions" (with Shaun Hargreaves-Heap, Abhijit Ramalingam, and Siddharth Ramalingam)
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 120, 80-93, 2015.
"Framing and Feedback in Social Dilemmas with Partners and Strangers" (with Caleb Cox).
Games, 6(4): 394-412. 2015. (Special Issue: Experimental Studies of Social Dilemma Games.)
"Probabilistic Production of a Public Good"
Economics Bulletin, October 2014
"Allocating a Voluntarily Provided Common-Property Resource: An Experimental Examination" (with James Walker and Arlington Williams)
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, May 2014
Grants
"Collateral Enforcement in Public Goods Games" (with Abhijit Ramalingam and Kenju Kamei)
Center for Growth and Opportunity, October 2020
"The Market for Talent: Competition for Resources and Self-Governance" (with Abhijit Ramalingam, James Walker and Aditya Srinivasan)
International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE), October 2015