Research

Publications

19. "Naturally Occurring Enhancements to Competition for Talent in Teams" (with Abhijit Ramalingam and Jimmy Walker),  Experimental Economics, Forthcoming

18. "Inequality reduction and cooperation: injection of additional resources" (with Abhijit Ramalingam), Economics Letters, 237, 2024.

17. "Inequality and the Allocation of Collective Goods" (with Caleb Cox), Journal of Economics Behavior and Organization, 220, 2024.

16. "Does reducing inequality increase cooperation?" (with Abhijit Ramalingam), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 217, 2024.

15. "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, 2023.

14. "Strategic Thinking in Contests" (with David Bruner, Caleb Cox, and David McEvoy), Experimental Economics, 25(3), 2022.

13. "Common-Value Public Goods and Informational Social Dilemmas" (with Caleb Cox), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 13(2), 2021.

12. "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.

11. "Incentivizing Provision of Collective Goods: Allocation Rules" (with Caleb Cox and James Walker), Southern Economic Journal, 87, 2021.

10. "Team competition when there is within-group inequality'" with (Shaun Hargreaves-Heap and Abhijit Ramalingam), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 90, 2021.

9. "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.

8. "The Market for Talent: Competition for Resources and Self-Governance in Teams" (with Abhijit Ramalingam and James Walker), Games and Economic Behavior, 114, 268-284, 2019

7. "Strategic Thinking in Public Goods Games with Teams" (with Caleb Cox), Journal of Public Economics, 161, 31-43, 2018   (Appendices)

6. "Risk in Payoff-Equivalent Appropriation and Provision Games", Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 69, 78-82, 2017.

5. "Endowment Inequality in Public Goods Games: A Re-Examination" (with Shaun Hargreaves-Heap and Abhijit Ramalingam), Economics Letters, 146, 4-7, 2016.

4. "'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.

3. "Framing and Feedback in Social Dilemmas with Partners and Strangers" (with Caleb Cox), Games , 6(4): 393-412. 2015. (Special Issue: Experimental Studies of Social Dilemma Games)

2. "Probabilistic Production of a Public Good", Economics Bulletin, 35(1), 37-52. 2015.

1. "Allocating a Voluntarily Provided Common-Property Resource: An Experimental Examination" (with James Walker and Arlington Williams), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 101, 141-155. May 2014.

Working Papers

"Uncertainty and Framing in Tortfests" (with J. Shahar Dillbary and Cherie Metcalf) Under review

"Causes of inequality and the choice of enforcement in a voluntary contributions mechanism" (with Quentin Aktinson, Ananish Chaudhuri, Scott Claessens, Michalis Drouvelis, and Abhijit Ramalingam) Preparation for Submission

"Public Information and Coordination with a divided majority" (with Caleb Cox and Angela De Oliveira) Preparation for Submission

"Do Individualists and Collectivists Cooperate Differently" (with Aidin Hajikhameneh and Erik Kimbrough) Preparation for Submission

"Long-run and short-run users of common-pool resources" (with Garret Ridinger and Caleb Cox) Preparation for Submission 

Other Publications

"Experiments on communication in games: Introduction to the special issue" (with Caleb Cox)

Games, 12(1), 19, 2021

External 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

Work in Progress

"Divided Loyalties and Communication in Coordination Games" (with Caleb Cox, John Lightle, and Abhijit Ramalingam)

“Group Size and Informational Social Dilemmas with Common-Value Public Goods” (with Lawrence De Geest, Caleb Cox, Abdul Kidwai, and Javier Portillo)

"Collateral Enforcement in Public Goods Games" (with Abhijit Ramalingam and Kenju Kamei)

"When Should Firms Promote Learning: An Experimental Study" (with Eric Schmidbauer and Lan Zhang)

"Group Wages" (Stanton Hudja and Daniel Woods)

“Inequality in provision and appropriation social dilemmas” (with Caleb Cox and Abhijit Ramalingam) 

"Communication and voting for redistribution in public goods games" (with Abhijit Ramalingam)