Selected Publications
(See CV for full list of publications)
"Is Publicly-Reported Firm-Level Trade Data Reliable? Evidence from the UK." (with Holger Breinlich and Greg Wright) PLoS One, forthcoming [working paper version]
"The Effect of Health Insurance Reform: Evidence from China" (with Huajing He) China Economic Review, 2019, vol. 53, pp 168-179 [working paper version]
"Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Academic Achievement? An Experiment in a Coeducational University" (with Alison Booth and Lina Cardona-Sosa) Journal of Public Economics, 2018, vol. 168, pp 109-126 [working paper version]
"Incentives and Children's Dietary Choices: A Field Experiment in Primary Schools" (with Michele Belot and Jonathan James) Journal of Health Economics, 2016, vol. 50, pp 213-229 [working paper version]
"Can Risk-Taking Preferences Be Modified?" (with Alison Booth) CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, vol. 61, no. 1, pp 7-32
"Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect Their Development?" (with Alison Booth and Lina Cardona Sosa) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, pp 126-154 [working paper version]
"Unemployment and Family-Values: A Household Distribution Sensitive Measure of Unemployment" Labour Economics, 2013, vol. 24, pp 354-362 [working paper version]
"Salience, Risky Choices, and Gender" (with Alison Booth) Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 117, no. 2, pp 517-520 [working paper version]
"Gender Differences in Risk Behavior: Does Nurture Matter?" (with Alison Booth) The Economic Journal, 2012, vol. 122, pp F56-F78 [working paper version] (article has been covered in the Economist, Observer, Independent, and many other news outlets; it was also the top downloaded paper published in the EJ in 2012, 2918 times as of April 2013)
"Choosing to Compete: How Different are Girls and Boys?" (with Alison Booth) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, vol. 81, no. 2, pp 542-555 [working paper version]
"Will the Real Family-Friendly Employer Please Stand Up: Who Permits Parents to Reduce Working Hours for Purposes of Childcare?" (with Robert Hutchens) in Kathleen Christensen and Barbara Schneider (eds.), Workplace Flexibility: Realigning 20th-Century Jobs for a 21st-Century Workforce, Cornell University Press, 2009 [working paper version]
"Unemployment and Vulnerability: A New Class of Measures, Its Axiomatic Properties, and Applications" (with Kaushik Basu) in Prasanta Pattaniaik, Koichi Tadenuma, Youngsheng Xu, and Naoki Yoshihara (eds.), Rational Choice and Social Welfare, Springer: Heidelberg, 2008 [working paper version]