Research

Working papers

(The most updated version of the following papers can be accessed through the links below -- if it is not linked yet, it is available upon request)

• "Co-Evolution of Consciousness and Biases That Make Humans Behave Against Their Own Interest" NEW
• "Behavioral Economics to Improve Lifestyle Choices and to Reduce Risk Factors" [in Spanish], with Jose María Abellán Perpiñán NEW
• "Social Pressure Explains Ethical Voting: A Methodological Contribution to the Scientific Endeavor in the Social Sciences"
• "Hyperbolic Discounting Is Not Lack of Self-Control"
• “Nudging and Phishing: A Theory of Behavioral Welfare Economics”
• “Cooperative and Competitive Reasoning: From Games to Revolutions”
• “The Evolution of Self-Control in the Brain”
• “False Consensus in Games: Embedding Level-k Models into Games of Incomplete Information”
• “Social Pressure and Network Structure Induce Public Good Provision”
• “The Dozen Things Experimental Economists Could Do (More Of)", with Eszter Cibor and John List

Research in progress (no draft available yet)

• “Chain Restaurant Calorie Posting Laws, Obesity and Consumer Welfare”, with Charles Courtemanche, Michael Price and Mariétou Ouayogodé
• “Nudging Present Bias out of Food Choice: A Field Experiment Measuring Its Welfare Effects”, with John List and Anya Samek
• "Irrational Addiction"