Research

Working Papers

Fickle Discrimination: Evidence From Emergency Triage Decisions (Job Market Paper)

Draft available upon request.

Presentations: SITE Economics of Health Inequality, Princeton University (SWEET), University of Pittsburgh, ESA World Meeting  

Gender Bias and Differential Belief Updating

Draft available upon request.

Abstract: I study whether people respond differently to identically informative signals about men and women. To ensure signals convey identical information, I develop a novel experimental design that fully fixes both prior beliefs and signal distributions across gender. In an experiment with 3,204 subjects, individuals respond dramatically to the gender of the signal-sender. Subjects are more likely to violate Bayes’ Rule, failing to update or updating in the wrong direction, after learning a woman succeeded or a man failed. They update more rationally after learning a man succeeded or a woman failed. Additional treatments explore how to mitigate these gendered mistakes.

Publications

Please Take a Minute: How Prosocial Choices Change with Deliberation 

(with Judd B. Kessler, Hannu Kivimaki, and Muriel Niederle)

Accepted, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Measuring Discrimination with Experiments 

(with Corinne Low)

Forthcoming, Handbook of Experimental Methods in the Social Sciences, edited by Alex Rees-Jones, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. 

A Conditional Cash Transfer and Women's Empowerment: Does Bolsa Familia Influence Intimate Partner Violence? 

(with Elizaveta Perova and Sarah Anne Reynolds)

Social Science and Medicine, 238 (112462), 2019.  

Selected Work in Progress

The Glass Cliff: Leadership Selection During Crises 

Subjective Signals and Worker Discretion: Evidence from Doctors