Publications
"Estimating Students’ Valuation for College Experiences” (with Esteban Aucejo and Jacob French). Journal of Public Economics, 2023. PDF
“Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from the Field and Lab" (with Patricia Cortes, Jessica Pan, Laura Pilossoph, and Ernesto Reuben). Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023. PDF
“Biases in Information Selection and Processing: Survey Evidence from the Pandemic” (with Ester Faia, Andreas Fuster, and Vincenzo Pezone). Review of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming. PDF
“The Impact of COVID-19 on Workers' Expectations and Preferences for Remote Work” (with Yuting Chen, Patricia Cortes, Gizem Kosar, and Jessica Pan). American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2023.
“Ask and You Shall Receive? Gender Differences in Regrades in College” (with Cher Li). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023. PDF
“Survey Experiments on Economic Expectations” (with Andreas Fuster). Elsevier Handbook of Expectations, 2023. PDF
“The Role of Heterogeneous Risk Preferences, Discount Rates, and Earnings Expectations in College Major Choice” (with Arpita Patnaik, Joanna Venator, and Matthew Wiswall). Journal of Econometrics, 2022. PDF
"Expectations with Endogenous Information Acquisition: An Experimental Investigation" (with Andreas Fuster, Ricardo Perez-Truglia, and Mirko Wiederholt). Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022. PDF
"COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Hesitancy in Low and Middle- Income Countries, and Implications for Messaging” (with Julio Solis Arce et al.) Nature – Medicine, 2021. PDF
“College Majors” (with Arpita Patnaik and Matthew Wiswall). In The Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Education, 2021. PDF
"What Would You Do with $500? Spending Responses to Gains, Losses, News, and Loans " (with Andreas Fuster and Greg Kaplan). Review of Economic Studies, 2021. PDF
"Human Capital and Expectations about Career and Family" (with Matthew Wiswall). Journal of Political Economy, 2021. PDF
"The Sensitivity of Housing Demand to Financing Conditions: Evidence from a Survey" (with Andreas Fuster). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021. PDF
“The Impact of COVID-19 on Student Experiences and Expectations: Evidence from a Survey” (with Esteban Aucejo, Jacob French, and Maria Paola Ugalde Araya). Journal of Public Economics, 2020. PDF
"Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality" (with Lasse Eika and Magne Mogstad). Journal of Political Economy, 2019. PDF
"Personal Experiences and Expectations about Aggregate Outcomes" (with Theresa Kuchler). Journal of Finance, 2019. PDF
"University Choice: The Role of Expected Earnings, Non-pecuniary Outcomes and Financial Constraints" (with Adeline Delavande). Journal of Political Economy, 2019. PDF
"Gender Discrimination and Social Identity: Experimental evidence from Urban Pakistan" (with Adeline Delavande). Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2019. PDF
"Home Price Expectations and Behavior: Evidence from a Randomized Information Experiment" (with Luis Armona and Andreas Fuster). Review of Economic Studies, 2019. PDF
"Financial Aid, Debt Management, and Socioeconomic Outcomes: Post-College Effects of Merit-based Aid" (with Judith Scott-Clayton). Journal of Public Economics, 2019. PDF
"Information and Anti-American Attitudes" (with Adeline Delavande). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018. PDF
"Preference for the Workplace, Investment in Human Capital, and Gender" (with Matthew Wiswall). Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018. Paper Appendix
"Intended College Attendance: Evidence from an Experiment on College Returns and Costs" (with Zachary Bleemer). Journal of Public Economics, 2018. PDF
"Preferences and Biases in Education Choices and Labor Market Expectations: Shrinking the Black Box of Gender" (with Ernesto Reuben and Matthew Wiswall). Economic Journal, 2017. PDF
“An Overview of the Survey of Consumer Expectations” (with Olivier Armantier, Giorgio Topa and Wilbert van der Klaauw). Economic Policy Review, 2017. PDF
"Workers' Spending Response to the 2011 Payroll Tax Cuts" (with Grant Graziani and Wilbert van der Klaauw). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016. Paper Appendix
"Financial education and the debt behavior of the young" (with Meta Brown, John Grigbsy, Wilbert van der Klaauw, and Jaya Wen). Review of Financial Studies, 2016. PDF
"The Price if Right: Updating of Inflation Expectations in a Randomized Price Information Experiment" (with Olivier Armantier, Scott Nelson, Giorgio Topa and Wilbert van der Klaauw). Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016. PDF Appendix
“To Buy or Not to Buy: Consumer Constraints in the Housing Market” (with Andreas Fuster). American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, 2016. Link
"Stereotypes and Madrassas: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan" (with Adeline Delavande). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2015. PDF
"Heterogeneous Inflation Expectations, Learning, and Market Outcomes" (with Carlos Madeira). Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2015. PDF
"How do College Students Respond to Public Information about Earnings?" (with Matthew Wiswall). Journal of Human Capital, 2015. PDF
"Inflation Expectations and Behavior: Do Survey Respondents Act on their Beliefs?" (with Olivier Armantier, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Giorgio Topa and Wilbert van der Klaauw). International Economic Review, 2015. PDF
"Determinants of College Major Choice: Identification using an Information Experiment" (with Matthew Wiswall). Review of Economic Studies, 2015. PDF Appendix
"The Impact of Housing Markets on Consumer Debt: Credit Report Evidence from 1999 to 2012" (with Meta Brown and Sarah Stein). Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2015. PDF
"Do We Follow Others When We Should Outside the Lab? Evidence from the AP Top 25" (with Daniel Stone). Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2014. PDF
"College Major Choice and the Gender Gap". Journal of Human Resources, 2013. PDF
"Measuring Inflation Expectations" (with Olivier Armantier, Wandi Bruine de Bruin, Simon Potter, Giorgio Topa, and Wilbert van der Klaauw). Annual Review of Economics, 2013. PDF
"Double Majors: One for Me, One for Mom and Dad?" Economic Inquiry, 2012. LINK
"An Experimental Investigation of Why Individuals Conform". European Economic Review, 2011. PDF
"How do College Students Form Expectations". Journal of Labor Economics, 2011. PDF
"Can Subjective Expectations Data be used in Choice Models? Evidence on Cognitive Biases". Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011. PDF