Research

Research fields

Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Game Theory, Applied Microeconomics

Selected Publications

1. “REFORMS: Reporting Standards for Machine Learning Based Science” with Kapoor, S., Pham, H., Bail, C., Cantrell, E., Gundersen, O.E., Hofman, J., Hullman, J., Lones, M., Malik, M.M., Nanayakkara, P., Peng, K., Poldrack, R., Raji, I.D., Roberts, M., Salganik, M., Steward, B., Vandewiele, G., and A. Narayanan.   Science Advances. [Paper]

2. "Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment," with Silvia Saccardo. [Paper]  American Economic Review 113 (2), 396-429.

3. "Incentives and Defaults Can Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Intentions and Test Demand" with Nora Szech. Management Science 69 (2), 723-1322, iii-iv.[Paper]

4. "Risk Attitudes and Conflict in the Household" (2022), Economic Journal 132 (642), 767-795.

5. "Mistakes, Overconfidence and the Effect of Sharing in Detecting Lies," with Uri Gneezy (2021). American Economic Review 111 (10), 3160-3183.

6. "The (In)Elasticity of Moral Ignorance" with Nora Szech (2022). Management Science 68 (7), 4755-5555, iv-v.

7. "Non-replicable Publications Are Cited More than Replicable Ones," with Uri Gneezy (2021). Science Advances 7 (21), eabd1705. [Data]

8. "Time-Inconsistent Charitable Giving", with Jim Andreoni (2021), Journal of Public Economics 198, 104391. [Paper, July 2020 Version][Data]

9. "The Pledging Puzzle: How Can Revocable Promises Increase Charitable Giving?", with Jim Andreoni (2021), Management Science 67 (10), 5969-6627. [Paper][Data]

10. "Can Short Psychological Interventions Affect Academic Performance? Revisiting the Effect of Self-Affirmation Interventions", with Uri Gneezy and Karsten Hansen, Psychological Science  (2020), 31 (7), 865-872. [Paper][Data]

11. "Bribing the Self", with Uri Gneezy, Silvia Saccardo and Roel van Veldhuizen, Games and Economic Behavior (2020) 120, 311-324. [Paper][Data]

12. "The Impact of Financial Education on Adolescents' Intertemporal Choices", with Melanie Lührmann and Joachim Winter, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2018) 10 (3), 309-332. [Paper][Data]

13. "The Threat of Exclusion and Implicit Contracting", with Martin Brown, Management Science (2017), 63 (12), 4081 - 4100. [Paper][Data]

14. "Peer Effects in Risk Taking: Envy or Conformity?", with Amrei Lahno, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (2015), 50, 75-93. [Data]

15. "Measuring lying aversion", with Uri Gneezy and Bettina Rockenbach, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2013), 93, 293-300.[Paper][Data]

16. "Lying about what you know or about what you do?", with Eric van Damme and Jan Potters, Journal of the European Economic Association (2013), 11 (5), 1204-1229. [Paper][Data]

17. "Hiding an Inconvenient Truth: Lies and Vagueness", with Eric van Damme and Jan Potters, Games and Economic Behavior (2011) 73, 244-261. [Paper][Data]

Working Papers

• "Improving Human Deception Detection Using Algorithmic Feedback" with Uri Gneezy. CESifo Working Paper No. 10518.  Minor Revision at Management Science. 

• "How Do Lab Participants View Their Decisions?" with Christine Exley and John-Henry Pezzuto. 

• "The Attention-Information Tradeoff."

Book Chapters

• "Lying in Economics" (2018), The Oxford Handbook of Lying. Oxford University Press. [PDF]

•  "Who Gives? The Roles of Empathy and Impulsivity," with Jim Andreoni and Ann-Kathrin Koessler (2018), The Economics of Philanthropy: Donations and Fundraising. MIT Press. [PDF]

• “Lies in disguise – an experimental study on cheating (by Urs Fischbacher and Franziska Föllmi-Heusi)," with Uri Gneezy (2021). The Art of Experimental Economics – Twenty Top Papers Reviewed (eds. G. Charness and M. Pingle). Routledge. [PDF]