Research
What Drives Demand for State-Run Lotteries? Evidence and Welfare Implications
(with Ben Lockwood, Dmitry Taubinsky, and Afras Sial)
Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.
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When Do "Nudges" Increase Welfare?
(with Daniel Cohen, William Morrison, and Dmitry Taubinsky)
Working Paper (April 2024). Revise and resubmit, American Economic Review.
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An Economic View of Corporate Social Impact
(with Giovanni Montanari, Bora Ozaltun, and Brandon Tan)
Working Paper (October 2023).
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Asymmetric Ideological Segregation in Exposure to Political News on Facebook
(with Sandra Gonzales-Bailon, David Lazer, Pablo Barbera, Meiqing Zhang, ..., Natalie Jomini Stroud, and Joshua Tucker)
Science, Vol. 381, No. 6656 (July 28, 2023), pages 392-398.
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How Do Social Media Feed Algorithms Affect Attitudes and Behavior in an Election Campaign?
(with Andrew Guess, Neil Malhotra, Jennifer Pan, Pablo Barbera, ..., Natalie Jomini Stroud, and Joshua Tucker)
Science, Vol. 381, No. 6656 (July 28, 2023), pages 398-404.
Reshares on Social Media Amplify Political News but Do Not Detectably Affect Beliefs or Opinions
(with Andrew Guess, Neil Malhotra, Jennifer Pan, Pablo Barbera, ..., Natalie Jomini Stroud, and Joshua Tucker)
Science, Vol. 381, No. 6656 (July 28, 2023), pages 404-408.
Like-Minded Sources on Facebook Are Prevalent but Not Polarizing
(with Brendan Nyhan, Jaime Settle, Emily Thorson, Magdalena Wojcieszak, Pablo Barbera, Annie Chen, ..., Natalie Jomini Stroud, and Joshua Tucker)
Nature, Vol. 620, No. 6656 (July 27, 2023), pages 137-144.
Measuring the Welfare Effects of Residential Energy Efficiency Programs
(with Michael Greenstone)
Working Paper (January 2024).
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Optimal Regulation of E-cigarettes: Theory and Evidence
(with Charlie Rafkin)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 114, No. 4 (November 2022), pages 1-50.
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Digital Addiction
(with Matthew Gentzkow and Lena Song)
American Economic Review, Vol. 112, No. 7 (July 2022), pages 2424-2463.
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Are High-Interest Loans Predatory? Theory and Evidence from Payday Lending
(with Joshua Kim, Dmitry Taubinsky, and Jonathan Zinman)
Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 89, No. 3 (May 2022), pages 1041-1084.
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Polarization and Public Health: Partisan Differences in Social Distancing during the Coronavirus Pandemic
(with Levi Boxell, Jacob Conway, Matthew Gentzkow, Michael Thaler, and David Yang)
Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 191 (November 2020).
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The Welfare Effects of Social Media
(with Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, and Matthew Gentzkow)
American Economic Review, Vol. 110, No. 3 (March 2020), pages 629-676.
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Food Deserts and the Causes of Nutritional Inequality
(with Rebecca Diamond, Jean-Pierre Dube, Jessie Handbury, Ilya Rahkovsky, and Molly Schnell)
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 134, No. 4 (November 2019), pages 1793-1844.
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Designing Better Sugary Drink Taxes
(with Anna Grummon, Benjamin B. Lockwood, and Dmitry Taubinsky)
Science, Vol. 365, No. 6457 (September 6, 2019), pages 989-990.
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Regressive Sin Taxes, with an Application to the Optimal Soda Tax
(with Benjamin B. Lockwood and Dmitry Taubinsky)
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 134, No. 3 (August 2019), pages 1557-1626.
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Should We Tax Soda? An Overview of Theory and Evidence
(with Benjamin B. Lockwood and Dmitry Taubinsky)
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol 33, No. 3 (Summer 2019), pages 202-227.
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Trends in the Diffusion of Misinformation on Social Media
(with Matthew Gentzkow and Chuan Yu)
Research and Politics, Vol. 6, No. 2 (April-June 2019), pages 1-8.
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Are Consumers Poorly Informed about Fuel Economy? Evidence from Two Experiments
(with Christopher Knittel)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 11, No. 1 (February 2019), pages 1-37.
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The Welfare Effects of Nudges: A Case Study of Energy Use Social Comparisons
(with Judd Kessler)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Vol. 11, No. 1 (January 2019), pages 236-276.
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Ramsey Strikes Back: Optimal Commodity Taxes and Redistribution in the Presence of Salience Effects
(with Benjamin B. Lockwood and Dmitry Taubinsky)
American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 108, No. 5 (May 2018), pages 88-92.
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Dutch Disease or Agglomeration? The Local Economic Effects of Natural Resource Booms in Modern America
(with Daniel Keniston)
Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 85, No 2 (April 2018), pages 596-731.
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Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election
(with Matthew Gentzkow)
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Spring 2017), pages 211-236.
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The Role of Sales Agents in Information Disclosure: Evidence from a Field Experiment
(with Richard Sweeney)
Management Science, Vol. 63, No. 1 (January 2017), pages 21-39.
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Opportunities for Advances in Climate Change Economics
(with Burke, Craxton, Kolstad, Onda, Baker, Barrage, Carson, Gillingham, Graff-Zivin, Greenstone, Hallegatte, Hanemann, Heal, Hsiang, Jones, Kelly, Kopp, Kotchen, Mendelsohn, Meng, Metcalf, Moreno-Cruz, Pindyck, Rose, Rudik, Stock, and Tol)
Science, Vol. 352, No. 6283 (April 15, 2016), pages 292-293.
How Do Electricity Shortages Affect Industry? Evidence from India
(with Allan Collard-Wexler and Stephen D. O'Connell)
American Economic Review, Vol. 106, No. 3 (March 2016), pages 587-624.
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Paternalism and Energy Efficiency: An Overview
Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 8 (2016), pages 145-176.
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Evaluating Behaviorally Motivated Policy: Experimental Evidence from the Lightbulb Market
(with Dmitry Taubinsky)
American Economic Review, Vol 105, No. 8 (August 2015), pages 2501-2538.
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Site Selection Bias in Program Evaluation
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 130, No. 3 (August 2015), pages 1117-1165.
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Regulating Internalities
(with Cass R. Sunstein)
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2015), pages 698-705.
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Tagging and Targeting of Energy Efficiency Subsidies
(with Christopher Knittel and Dmitry Taubinsky)
American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 105, No. 5 (2015), pages 187-191.
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Gasoline Prices, Fuel Economy, and the Energy Paradox
(with Nathan Wozny)
Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol 96, No. 10 (December 2014), pages 779-795.
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The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Behavioral Interventions: Experimental Evidence from Energy Conservation
(with Todd Rogers)
American Economic Review, Vol. 104, No. 10 (October 2014), pages 3003-3037.
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Energy Policy with Externalities and Internalities
(with Sendhil Mullainathan and Dmitry Taubinsky)
Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 112 (April 2014), pages 72-88.
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The Welfare Effects of Misperceived Product Costs: Data and Calibrations from the Automobile Market
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 5, No. 3 (August 2013), pages 30-66.
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Real-Time Pricing and Electricity Market Design
Permanent Working Paper (March 2013).
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Is There an Energy Efficiency Gap?
(with Michael Greenstone)
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Winter 2012), pages 3-28.
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Rethinking Real-Time Electricity Pricing
Resource and Energy Economics, Vol. 33, No. 4 (November 2011), pages 820-842.
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Social Norms and Energy Conservation
Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 95, No 9-10 (October 2011), pages 1082-1095.
Winner of the Atkinson Award for the best paper published in the Journal of Public Economics in the past three years.
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Consumers’ Perceptions and Misperceptions of Energy Costs
American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 101, No. 3 (May 2011), pages 98-104.
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Behavior and Energy Policy
(with Sendhil Mullainathan)
Science, Vol. 327, No. 5970 (March 5, 2010), pages 1204-1205.
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Community Size and Network Closure
(with Dean Karlan, Markus Mobius, Tanya Rosenblat, and Adam Szeidl)
American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 97, No. 2 (May 2007), pages 80-85.
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