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• My TED talk about happiness, behavioral economics and my life is online: “The Pursuit of Happiness: Advice from a Behavioral Economist.”
• I was recognized as the 2019 Best 40 Under 40 Professors by Poets and Quants.
• I received the 2018 Smith Ascending Scholar Prize which is awarded by the IFREE to a “budding genius” in social science. (My wife will confirm that I am not a "genius," but it is still flattering).
• A paper examining between-team and within-team incentives was published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization: “Adding Tournament to Tournament: Combining Between-Team and Within-Team Incentives.”
• How to defend against an attacker? Read this paper: “The Attack and Defense of Weakest-Link Networks” in Public Choice.
• How does the same person behave in different tournaments? See: “Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: Theory and Experiment” in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
• How culture and information affect giving? See “When Income Depends on Performance and Luck: The Effects of Culture and Information on Giving” in the Research in Experimental Economics. (Media: Nada es Gratis)
• How status affects demand for chocolate? See “Status and the Demand for Visible Goods: Experimental Evidence on Conspicuous Consumption” in Experimental Economics.
• Survey of economic literature on war and conflict in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization: "War and Conflict in Economics: Theories, Applications, and Recent Trends."
• Survey of the literature on group contests in the Journal of Economic Surveys: "Behavior in Group Contests: A Review of Experimental Research."
• What is the main explanation for overbidding in rent-seeking contests: "Impulsive Behavior in Competition: Testing Theories of Overbidding in Rent-Seeking Contests." (Media: Think Magazine) (Video: IFREE Seminar)
• How taxes and wasteful government spending impact charitable giving: "The Impact of Taxes and Wasteful Government Spending on Giving." (Media: Wall Street Journal) (Video: SPI Conference)
• Tiebreaks and caps in contest design: "Designing Contests between Heterogeneous Contestants: An Experimental Study of Tie-Breaks and Bid-Caps in All-Pay Auctions." (Media: Phys.org)

PUBLICATIONS IN THE PAST TWO YEARS

• “Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: Theory and Experiment,” with Tim Cason and Will Masters, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming.
• “Theories of Conflict and War,” with Erik Kimbrough, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming.
• “War and Conflict in Economics: Theories, Applications, and Recent Trends,” with Erik Kimbrough and Kevin Laughren, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming.
• “The Tug-of-War in the Laboratory,” with Cary Deck, European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 60, 1-12.
• “Adding Tournament to Tournament: Combining Between-Team and Within-Team Incentives,” with Michael Majerczyk and Yu Tian, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 166, 1-11.
• “The Attack and Defense Games,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2019, 42, 41-43.
• “New Hampshire Effect: Behavior in Sequential and Simultaneous Multi-Battle Contests,” with Shakun Mago, Experimental Economics, 2019, 22, 325-349.
• “The Attack and Defense of Weakest-Link Networks,” with Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson, Public Choice, 2019, 179, 175-194.
• “Status and the Demand for Visible Goods: Experimental Evidence on Conspicuous Consumption,” with David Clingingsmith, Experimental Economics, 2018, 21, 877-904.
• "Behavior in Group Contests: A Review of Experimental Research," Journal of Economic Surveys, 2018, 32, 683-704.
• "Trust, Reciprocity and Rules," with Tom Rietz, Eric Schniter and Tim Shields, Economic Inquiry, 2018, 56, 1526-1542.
• “Loss Aversion and the Quantity-Quality Tradeoff,” with Jared Rubin and Anya Samek, Experimental Economics, 2018, 21, 292-315.
• “Multi-Battle Contests: An Experimental Study,” with Shakun Mago, Southern Economic Journal, 2017, 84, 407-425.
• “Economics and Psychology of Contests,” with Changxia Ke and Lionel Page, Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 63, 83-85.
• “Asymmetric and Endogenous Within-Group Communication in Competitive Coordination Games,” with Tim Cason and Jingjing Zhang, Experimental Economics, 2017, 20, 946-972.
• “A Study of the Triggers of Conflict and Emotional Reactions,” with Mike Caldara, Mike McBride and Matt McCarter, Games, 2017, 8(21), 1-12.
• “Deception and Reception: The Behavior of Information Providers and Users,” with Tim Shields, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 137, 445-456.
• “Selective Recognition: How to Recognize Donors to Increase Charitable Giving,” with Anya Samek, Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55, 1489-1496. (Media: The Chronicle of Philanthropy) (Video: SPI Conference)
• “The Pros and Cons of Workplace Tournaments,” IZA World of Labor, 2016, 302, 1-10.
• “Principal-Agent Settings with Random Shocks,” with Jared Rubin, Management Science, 2016, 62, 985-999.
• “The Paradox of Misaligned Profiling: Theory and Experimental Evidence,” with Charlie Holt, Andrew Kydd and Laura Razzolini, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2016, 60, 482-500.
• “Facing Your Opponents: Social Identification and Information Feedback in Contests,” with Shakun Mago and Anya Samek, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2016, 60, 459-481.
• “When Identifying Contributors is Costly: An Experiment on Public Goods,” with Anya Samek, Southern Economic Journal, 2016, 82, 801-808.