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PUBLICATIONS

1. Do Generalizations of Expected Utility Explain More than the Zero Effect?,  joint with Eungsik Kim and Jack Stecher. Applied Economics Letters, forthcoming.

2. Incentivizing Participation with Full Completion: The Power of Self-Selected Rewards, joint with Grace Lee and Erte Xiao. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2025.

3. Allais paradox, certainty effect, and zero effect, joint with Jack Stecher. Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics, 2025, 13-14.

4. Incentives to Persevere, joint with Grace Lee, Audrey Siah, and Erte Xiao. Management Science, 2023, 69(9), pp 5378-5393. [Working paper version]

5.  The Effect of Payment Medium on Effort, joint with Raymond Kumar and Juliana Silva Goncalves. Economic Inquiry, 2022, 60(3), pp 1111-1126. [Working paper version]

6. Is the Allais Paradox Due to Appeal of Certainty or Aversion to Zero?  joint with Eungsik Kim and Jack Stecher. Experimental Economics, 2021, 24(3), pp 751-771. [Working paper version]

7. Awareness of Low Self-Control: Theory and Evidence from a Homeless Shelter, joint with Sera Linardi. Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 61, pp 39-54. [Working paper version]

8. Credit Card Competition and Naive Hyperbolic Consumers. Journal of Financial Services Research, 2015, 47, pp 153-175.

WORKING PAPERS

1. Improving Credit Card Repayments, One Nudge at a Time, joint with Hanlin Lou and Robert Slonim (R&R)

2. A Family of Norms: Related Beliefs about Female Labor Force Participation, joint with Sultan Alkhuzam and Stephanie Wang (under review)

3. The Impact of Credit Cards on Spending: A Field Experiment, joint with George Loewenstein. (working paper)

WORK IN PROGRESS

1. Time Preferences and Expectations, joint with Aleksandra Erakhtina and Ben Young [Slides] (Manuscript is in preparation)

2. Wings of Growth: A Mindset Intervention in Rural China, joint with Juliana Silva Goncalves, Mike Zhiren Wu, Erte Xiao, and Hui Xu (Manuscript is in preparation)

3. The role of Social Norms and Misperceptions on Muslim Women’s Work Outcomes in Australia, joint with Anisa Buckley, Rayan Merkbawi, and Ali Vergili (Manuscript is in preparation)

4. Impatience over Time, joint with Sultan Alkhuzam, Stephanie Wang and Nathan Kettlewell (Data collection is complete)

5. Effects of Experienced Events on Decision Making, joint with Stephanie Wang (Data collection is complete)

6. Self-serving Pro-social Lies and Reactions to Beneficiaries, joint with Zafer Akin (Data collection is complete)

TEACHING

Behavioural Game Theory (UTS Grad Cert)

Behavioural Decision Making (UTS Grad Cert)

Economic Policy and Analysis (UTS Undergrad)

Principles of Microeconomics (UTS Undergrad)

Behavioral Economics (Carnegie Mellon University Undergrad)

Freshman Seminar on Behavioral Economics (Carnegie Mellon University Undergrad)

Microeconomics (Carnegie Mellon University Undergrad)

Advance Microeconomic Theory (Carnegie Mellon University Undergrad)