Work on Gender

Believed Gender Differences in Social Preferences (with Oliver Hauser, Molly Moore, and John-Henry Pezzuto)

The hidden costs of believing women are more socially oriented, Michigan News, 4 March 2025

Too Nice to Lead? Unpacking the Gender Stereotype That Holds Women Back, HBS Working Knowledge, 10 November 2022

The Gender Minority Gaps in Confidence and Self-Evaluation (with Billur Aksoy and Judd Kessler)

The gender-minority gaps in confidence and self-evaluation, VoxEU, 17 March 2024 (byline)

The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion (with Judd Kessler)

When Is It OK to Share Your Achievements?, Psychology Today, 24 January 2024

Depending on Gender, Students Talk About Their Abilities Differently, Education Week, 8 June 2022

How Did You Do? Self-evaluations have a gender bias, Character Lab, 29 May 2022

Why Don't Women Promote Themselves?, Knowledge at Wharton, 17 February 2020

Why men are better at self-promotion than women, Management Today, 13 February 2020

Women less inclined to self-promote than men, even for a job, The Harvard Gazette, 7 February 2020

Are Performance Reviews Sexist? New Research Says Yes, money.com, 23 January 2020

This is the gender gap in self-promotion, World Economic Forum, 2 January 2020 (byline)

Women Persistently Sell Themselves Short of Same-Skill Men, The NBER Digest, 29 December 2019

The gender gap in self-promotion, VoxEU, 23 December 2019 (byline)

Why Don't Women Self-Promote As Much As Men?, Harvard Business Review, 19 December 2019 (byline)

Women face bias in promotions, raises. What they need to know to ace their year-end review, ABC News, 5 November 2019

Men exaggerate their importance at work, while women do the exact opposite, MarketWatch, 8 October 2019

The Role of Beliefs in Driving Gender Discrimination (with Katherine B. Coffman and Muriel Niederle)

Employers don't discriminate against women just because they're women, Quartz, 26 January 2018

Why Employers Favor Men, HBS Working Knowledge, 11 September 2017

Knowing When to Ask: The Cost of Leaning-In (with Muriel Niederle and Lise Vesterlund)

Follow These 3 Steps When Deciding if You Should Lean In, Business and Tech, 22 September 2017 (byline)

Here Are 4 Questions To Ask Yourself Before You Use Any Negotiation Advice, Forbes, 21 July 2017

Why Always Leaning In For Salary Negotiations Might Not Work For Women, fastcompany.com, 16 January 2017

Women Know When Negotiating Isn't Worth It, The Atlantic, 06 January 2017

Harvard researchers have concluded that not all women should “lean in” for salary negotiations, Quartz, 02 June 2016

New Study Shows that Leaning Into Negotiations Doesn't Always Work for Women, Workology, 18 April 2016

The Cost of Leaning In, HBS Working Knowledge, 18 April 2016

Why Women Can't Negotiate Their Way out of the Wage Gap, TakePart, 14 April 2016

New Research: Women Who Don't Negotiate Might Have a Good Reason, Harvard Business Review, 12 April 2016 (byline)


Work on Social Preferences

Believed Gender Differences in Social Preferences (with Oliver Hauser, Molly Moore, and John-Henry Pezzuto)

The hidden costs of believing women are more socially oriented, Michigan News, 4 March, 2025

Too Nice to Lead? Unpacking the Gender Stereotype That Holds Women Back, HBS Working Knowledge, 10 November 2022

Motivated Errors (with Judd Kessler)

What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't, HBS Working Knowledge, 19 December 2022

New research finds people are selfishly motivated (even if they are unaware of it), Ladders, 10 January 2020

How selfish motives drive people to make dumb mistakes, Quartz, 31 December 2019

How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving, HBS Working Knowledge, 19 October 2017

Information Avoidance and Image Concerns (with Judd Kessler)

Don't Bring Me Down: Probing Why People Tune Out Bad News, HBS Working Knowledge, 15 September 2021

The Impact of a Surprise Donation Ask (with Ragan Petrie)

Surprise! More People Give If They Don't See the Pitch Coming, Quartz, 31 July 2018

Equity Concerns are Narrowly Framed (with Judd Kessler)

What equity means for your career and company, The San Diego Union Tribune, 11 December 2017

Excusing Selfishness in Charitable Giving: The Role of Risk

Excusing selfishness in charitable giving: The role of risk, VoxEU, 27 December 2014 (byline)


Other Press

Are You Blind? The Foundation Fighting Blindness, 25 May 2025 

Share Your Vision: Christine Exley, The Foundation Fighting Blindness, October 2023 

Faculty Summer Reading Recommendations, Harvard Business School, 2 August 2017

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration, HBS Working Knowledge, 31 January 2017

Making a Difference, University of Mary Washington, 14 April 2016

These Women Save Dogs In The Nerdiest Way Possible – With Applied Economics, Bark Post, 20 November 2015

Economic Rockstar: Christine Exley, Economic Rockstar, 16 October 2015

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, 16 September 2015

The Tricky Economics of Dog Adoption, Harvard Business Review, 2 April 2014

Wagaroo update: designing a mechanism to identify responsible sources for pet dogs, Market Design Blog, 29 August 2013

A New Matching Market for Dog Buyers, Freakonomics, 15 February 2013

Wagaroo: A matching market for pet dogs from responsible sources, Market Design Blog, 14 February 2013