Publications
Do Financial Incentives Crowd Out Intrinsic Motivation to Perform on Standardized Tests? (with John A. List and Susanne Neckermann). forthcoming, Economics of Education Review
The Effect of ID Verification in Online Markets: Evidence from a Field Experiment. forthcoming, Review of Industrial Organization
Controls and Cooperation in Interactive and Non-interactive Settings (with Jace Garrett and William Tayler). forthcoming, Contemporary Accounting Research
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
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). Slightly earlier 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)