Current Research
Research Expertise: Design of Experiments; Experiments in the Laboratory and in the Field; Game Theory.
LABOR MARKET
"Choosing to be Trained: Evidence from a Field Experiment."(Joint with Lata Gangadharan, Pushkar Maitra at Monash University and Subha Mani at Fordham University). [Working Paper version]. Published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, Vol. 110, 145-159.
"Searching for Preference Stability in a State Dependent World." (Joint with Lata Gangadharan, Pushkar Maitra at Monash University and Subha Mani at Fordham University). [Working Paper version]. Published in the Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, Vol 62, 17-32.
"Effects of Peers and Rank on Cognition, preferences, and Personality." (Joint with Subha Mani at Fordham University, Smriti Sharma at Newcastle University and Saurabh Singhal at Lancaster University). [Working Paper version]. Published in The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, Vol 104(3), 587-601.
“Let It Be”: Motivating Workers Through Task Autonomy. (Joint with Subha Mani at Fordham University and Andrew Souther at The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago). [Working Paper version].
CORRUPTION
"Letting the briber go free: An experiment on mitigating harassment bribes." (Joint with Klaus Abbink and Lata Gangadharan at Monash University and Tarun Jain at Indian School of Business). [Working Paper version]. Published in the Journal of Public Economics, 2014, Vol 111, 17-28.
"Stopping the Rot I: A Review of Models and Experimental Methods of Corruption Experiments." (Joint with Ritwik Banerjee and Satarupa Mitra at IIM, Bangalore). [Working Paper version]. Published In C.K. Jha, A. Mishra & S. Sarangi (Eds.), The Political Economy of Corruption: Emerging Issues. 2023, Routledge.
"Stopping the Rot II: Consequences, Causes and Policy Lessons from the Recent Experiments on Corruption." (Joint with Ritwik Banerjee and Satarupa Mitra at IIM, Bangalore). [Working Paper version]. Published In C.K. Jha, A. Mishra & S. Sarangi (Eds.), The Political Economy of Corruption: Emerging Issues. 2023, Routledge.
"Republic of Beliefs: An Experimental Investigation." (Joint with Fatos Radoniqi at Whittier College). Published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 2023, 214, 30-43.
"Importance of the Republic of Beliefs: An interstate belief elicitation experiment". (Joint with Sujoy Chakravarty at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Shagata Mukherjee at Ashoka University). [Work in Progress].
"Conditional Legal Immunity." (Joint with Chandan Jha at Le Moyne College and Sudipta Sarangi at Virginia Tech). [Work in Progress].
DECISIONS UNDER RISK
"Is There A Plausible Theory for Decision under Risk? A Dual Calibration Critique." (Joint with James C. Cox, Vjollca Sadiraj at Georgia State University and Bodo Vogt at University of Magdeburg, Germany). [Working Paper version]. Published in Economic Theory, Vol 54, issue 2, (2013), 305-333.
"Shooting in the Dark: Do Prices Matter in Ambiguous Environments?" Published in Studies in Microeconomics, 4(1), (2016), 1-12.
"Internal and External Validity: Comparing Two Simple Risk Elicitation Tasks." (Joint with Subha Mani at Fordham University, Smriti Sharma at Newcastle University and Saurabh Singhal at Lancaster University). [Working Paper version]. Published in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. Vol. 81, 31-46.
"Procedural Rationality in the Time of COVID-19: Commentary". (Joint with C.K. Jha at Le Moine College and Sudipta Sarangi at Virginia Tech). Published in Economic and Political Weekly. 55(25), 13-16.
GENDER AND DECISION-MAKING
"Only Mine or All Ours: Do Stronger Entitlements Affect Altruistic Choices in the Household."(Joint with Subha Mani at Fordham University). [Working Paper version]. Published in World Development, 2015, Vol. 67, 363-375.
"Do procedures matter in fairness allocations? Experimental evidence in mixed gender pairings." [Published version]. Published in Economics Bulletin, 2011, Vol. 31 no.1, 820-829.
"Altruism in the Household: A pilot study."(Joint with Subha Mani at Fordham University). Published in the Economic and Political Weekly, 2013, Vol - XLVIII No. 33.
"Can gender differences in distributional preferences explain gender gaps in competition?" (Joint with Subha Mani at Fordham University, Smriti Sharma at Newcastle University and Saurabh Singhal at Lancaster University). [Working Paper version]. Published in the Journal of Economic Psychology. Vol. 70, 1-11.
DISCRIMINATION
"Searching for Religious Discrimination among Anganwadi Workers in India: An Experimental Investigation." (Joint with Prakarsh Singh at Amherst College and Subha Mani at Fordham University). [Working Paper version]. Published in the Review of Development Economics. Vol 24, issue 2, 362-382.
"Social Identity, Behavior, and Personality: Evidence from India." (Joint with Subha Mani at Fordham University, Smriti Sharma at Newcastle University and Saurabh Singhal at Lancaster University). [IZA Discussion Paper No. 13515]. Published in The Journal of Development Studies. 59(4), 472-489.
"Games of Prejudice: Experiments at the Extensive and Intensive Margin." (Joint with Subha Mani at Fordham University, Joseph Vecci at University of Gothenburg, and Tomas Zelinsky at Technical University of Košice). [IZA Discussion Paper No. 13085]
SOCIAL-PREFERENCES
"Trust and Trustworthiness among Economics Majors." (Joint with Arjun Menon at NERA). [Published version]. Published in Economics Bulletin, 2011, Vol. 31 no.4, 2799-2815.
"Does Heterogeneity Help in Overcoming the Public Goods Dilemma in a Sequential Contribution Environment?"(Joint with Wafa Hakim at University of Alabama,Huntsville). [Working Paper version]. Published in Group Decision and Negotiation, 2014, 23(5), 1219-1239.
"Trust Me: Communication and Competition in Psychological Games." (Joint with Marina Agranov at Caltech and Andrew Schotter at New York University). [Working Paper version]. Forthcoming in the Journal of the European Economic Association.
"Estimating Social Preferences." (Joint with Vipul Bhatt at James Madison University). [Work in Progress].
Moral Costs and Profit Maximization Behavior. (Joint with Robert Betancourt, Fordham ’24). [Work in Progress].
ENTRY, COMPETITION AND FIRM BEHAVIOR
"Are Entry Threats Always Credible?" Published in The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 11: Iss. 1 (Contributions), 2011, Article 73.
"Potential Competition in the Presence of Sunk Entry Costs: An Experiment." Published in the New Zealand Economic Papers, Special Issue: Laboratory experiments in economics, finance and political science, Volume 43(2),August 2009 , pgs 203 - 225.
"When Firms Contest." Published in Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, #590, pgs 233-238,Springer 2007.
"Contestability and the significance of the entrant's home market: Dissertation abstract." Published in Experimental Economics, Springer, vol. 10(2), 193-194, June 2007.
"Minding Your Own Business." Published in the Proceedings of Experiments in Economic Sciences - New Approaches to Solving Real-world Problems (peer-reviewed) ,2004, 500-520.
"International Price Differences in the Online Book Market : Case of a Digital Divide.(Mimeo)
BEHAVIORAL/EXPERIMENTAL DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
"Lab-in-the-Field Methods in Development Economics: A Review of Current Practices." (Joint with Lata Gangadharan at Monash University & Andrew Souther at Chicago Fed). Forthcoming in Handbook of Experimental Development Economics. [Working Paper version].
Impact of Non-monetary Incentives on Teacher Absenteeism in Jharkhand. (Joint with Subha Mani at Fordham University, Anchal Bagga, Pradyumna Bhattacharjee, & Kumar Vivek at the World Bank). [Work in Progress].
Entry on Behavioural Development Economics. (Joint with Pushkar Maitra at Monash University). [Pre-pub version]. Forthcoming in S. Chuah, R. Hoffmann & A. Neelim (Eds.), Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics.
"Experiments on Inequality and Poverty." (Joint with Subha Mani at Fordham University, Farah Said at LUMS and Rafia Zafar at CUNY). [Work in Progress].
PEDAGOGY
"Nudging Students Forward Towards Backward Induction." [Working Paper version]. Published in the Journal of Industrial Organization Education, 2010, Vol. 5 Iss 1, Article 3.
"An Interactive Introduction to Randomized Evaluation."(Joint with Subha Mani at Fordham University). [Working Paper version]. Published in the Perspectives on Economic Education Research , 2013, Vol. 8, No. 1.
OTHER PROJECTS
"Handbook of Experimental Development Economics". (Co-edited with Pushkar Maitra at Monash University). [Work in Progress].
"Persistent patterns of behavior: Two epidemics 350 years apart. (Joint with C.K. Jha at Le Moine College and Sudipta Sarangi at Virginia Tech). Published in Economic Inquiry. 59(2), 848-857.
"Economic Tales from Epics."(Joint with Sudipta Sarangi at Virginia Tech). [Work in Progress].