If you would like a copy of any of my published papers that are gated, please email me at jlivingston@bentley.edu.
Publications
On the interpretation of giving in dictator games when the recipient is a charity (with Rustam Rasulmukhamedov). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 208, April 2023, 275-285. Online appendices available here. Data and code available here.
Can wishful thinking explain evidence for overconfidence? an experiment on belief updating (with Uri Gneezy, Moshe Hoffman, Mark A. Lane, Lohn A. List, and Michael J. Seiler). Oxford Economic Papers, 75(1), 2023, 35–54.
Online tutoring by college volunteers: Experimental evidence from a pilot program (with Matthew A. Kraft, John A. List, and Sally Sadoff). AEA Papers and Proceedings, 112, 2022, 614–618.
The effect of teaching economics with classroom experiments: Estimates from a within-subject experiment (with Sacha Gelfer and Sutanuka Roy). AEA Papers and Proceedings, 112, 2022, 619–23.
A Virtue Ethics Critique of Ethical Dimensions of Behavioral Economics: Comments from a Behavioral Economist. Business and Society Review, 125(2), 2020, 261-268.
Measuring Success in Education: The Role of Effort on the Test Itself (with Uri Gneezy, John A. List, Xiangdong Qin, Sally Sadoff, and Yang Xu). American Economic Review: Insights, 1(3), 2019, 291-308.
Coverage at the Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report, The Economist, CNBC, and Bloomberg Radio.
Controls and Cooperation in Interactive and Non-interactive Settings (with Jace Garrett and William Tayler). Contemporary Accounting Research, 36(4), Winter 2019, 2494-2520.
The Effect of ID Verification in Online Markets: Evidence from a Field Experiment. Review of Industrial Organization, 54(3), 2019, 595-615.
Do Financial Incentives Crowd Out Intrinsic Motivation to Perform on Standardized Tests? (with John A. List and Susanne Neckermann). Economics of Education Review, 66, 2018, 125-136.
A Hedonic Approach to Testing for Indirect Network Effects in the LCD Television Market (with David Ortmeyer, Patrick Scholten and Wilson Wong). Applied Economics Letters, 20(1), 2013, 76-79.
The Hot Hand and the Cold Hand in Professional Golf. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 81(1), 2012, 172-184.
The Behavior of Inexperienced Bidders in Internet Auctions. Economic Inquiry, 48(2), 2010, 237-253.
Functional Forms in Studies of Reputation in Internet Auctions. Electronic Commerce Research, 10(2), 2010, 167-190.
Do Countercyclical-Weekend Effects Persist in Online Retail Markets? (with Jihui Chen and Patrick Scholten). Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 8(4), 2009, 174-181.
How Valuable is a Good Reputation? A Sample Selection Model of Internet Auctions. Review of Economics and Statistics, 87(3), 2005, 453-465.
Book chapters
What Attracts Bidders to a Particular Internet Auction?, in Advances in Applied Microeconomics, vol. 12: Organizing the New Industrial Economy, ed. Michael Baye, Oxford, UK : JAI Press/Elsevier Science, 2003.
Decentralization in Uganda, (with Omar Azfar and Patrick Meagher), in Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries: A Comparative Perspective, ed. Dilip Mukherjee and Pranab Bardhan, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, January 2006.
The Psychology of Economics in Decision Making: A Review (with Michael Quinn), in The Psychology of Decision Making. Nova Publishing, 2007.
Working papers
Can Matching Gifts Help New Charities Compete with Established Charities? (with Katherine Achterhof)
Measuring Success in Education: The Role of Effort on the Test Itself (with Uri Gneezy, John A. List, Xiangdong Qin, Sally Sadoff, and Yang Xu). This is the NBER version, available as NBER working paper No. 24004.
Harnessing Complementarities in the Education Production Function (with John A. List and Susanne Neckermann)
Learning from Experience in Beauty Contests (with Michael Price and Susan Skeath)
Federalist Disciplines or Local Capture? An Empirical Analysis of Decentralization in Uganda (with Omar Azfar)