Publications
Believed Gender Differences in Social Preferences (with Oliver Hauser, Molly Moore, and John-Henry Pezzuto), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2025, 140(1): 403–458.
See supplemental online appendix here.
Motivated Errors (with Judd Kessler), American Economic Review, 2024, 114 (4): 962-87.
See supplemental online appendix here.
The Gender Gap in Confidence: Expected But Not Accounted For (with Kirby Nielsen), American Economic Review, 2024, 114 (3): 851-85.
See supplemental online appendix here.
Equity Concerns are Narrowly Framed (with Judd Kessler), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2024, 16 (2): 147-79.
See supplemental online appendix here.
Information Avoidance and Image Concerns (with Judd Kessler), Economic Journal, November 2023, 133 (656): 3153-3168.
See supplemental online appendix here.
Nonprofits in Good Times and Bad Times (with Nils Lehr and Stephen Terry), Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, February 2023, 1(1): 42-79.
For the Desired Countercyclicality Ratings (DCR), see here.
The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion (with Judd Kessler), Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2022, 137(3): 1345-1381.
See supplemental online appendix here.
The Role of Beliefs in Driving Gender Discrimination (with Katherine B. Coffman and Muriel Niederle), Management Science, 2021, 67(6): 3321-3984. [Online Appendix here]
Knowing When to Ask: The Cost of Leaning-In (with Muriel Niederle and Lise Vesterlund), Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (3): 816-854.
Using Charity Performance Metrics as an Excuse Not to Give, Management Science, 2020, 66(2): 553-563.
Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference Points in a Laboratory Study (with Stephen J. Terry), Management Science, 2019, 65: 413-425.
The Impact of a Surprise Donation Ask (with Ragan Petrie), Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 158: 152-167.
Incentives for Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Reputations, Management Science, 2018, 64(5): 2460-2471.
Observability Increases the Demand for Commitment Devices (with Jeffrey K. Naecker), Management Science, 2017, 63(10): 3262-3267.
Excusing Selfishness in Charitable Giving: The Role of Risk, Review of Economic Studies, 2016, 83(2): 587-628.
Working Papers
Gender Views: A Restricted Path for Men and A Mission Impossible for Women (with Joshua Dean, David Klinowski, Muriel Niederle, and Heather Sarsons), 2025.
The Gender Concealment Gap (with Raymond Fisman, Judd Kessler, Louis-Pierre Lepage, Xiaomeng Li, Corinne Low, Xiaoyue Shan, Mattie Toma, and Basit Zafar), 2025.
When Do Individuals Give Up Agency? The Role of Decision Avoidance (with Holly Dykstra and Muriel Niederle)
See Appendix here.
Work in Progress
"The Stubbornness Gap" (with Colin Sullivan and Kirby Nielsen)
"Measuring Gender Attitudes Toward Men and Women" (with Joshua Dean, Christine Exley, and Muriel Niederle).