Research Publications


Administrative Burden and Procedural Denials: Experimental Evidence from SNAP

with Eric Gianella, Tatiana Homonoff, and Gwen Rino

Forthcoming at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy


Menu-Dependent Risk Attitudes: Theory and Evidence

with Zhuo Chen and Russell Golman

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2024, 68, 77  – 205. 


Gasoline Price Changes and Consumer Inflation Expectations: Experimental Evidence

with Felix Aidala, Olivier Armantier,  Giorgio Topa, Gizem Kosar,  and Wilbert van der Klaauw

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 220(4), 66  – 80.


Distinguishing Common Ratio Preferences from Common Ratio Effects Using Paired Valuation Tasks

with Christina McGranaghan, Kirby Nielsen, Ted O'Donoghue and Charles Sprenger

American Economic Review, 2024, 114(2), 307–347.


Range-Dependent Attribute Weighting in Consumer Choice: An Experimental Test 

Econometrica, 2022, 90(2): 799 –830.


Program Recertification Costs: Evidence from SNAP  

with Tatiana Homonoff

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13(4): 271–298.


Quantifying Brand Loyalty: Evidence from the Cigarette Market  

with Philip DeCicca, Donald S. Kenkel and Feng Liu

Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 76: 102512.


Consumers' Ability to Identify a Surplus When Returns to Attributes are Nonlinear 

with Pete Lunn

Judgement and Decision Making, 2021, 16(5):1186–1220.


Modeling Risk Aversion in Economics 

with Ted O'Donoghue

Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2018, 32(2): 10-25.


Can Chocolate Cure Blindness? Investigating the Effect of Preference Strength and Incentives on the Incidence of Choice Blindness 

with Feidhlim McGowan

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2016, 61(4): 1-11.


Choice Blindness in Financial Decision Making 

with Owen McLaughlin

Judgement and Decision Making, 2013, 8(5): 561-572.