Research

Research interests:

Psychology & Economics, Experimental Economics, Game Theory, Mechanism Design

Research Statement

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Publications:

“Willful Ignorance in Social Decisions: Robust, Yet Contextually Sensitive,” with Tony Hua, 2026, Current Opinions in Psychology, Volume 67,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102211.

“Silence is Golden: Communication Costs and Team Problem Solving,” with Gary Charness and David Cooper, 2020, Experimental Economics, 23, 668-693. 

“Second-Best Mechanisms for Land Assembly and Hold-Out Problems,” with Jonathan Pincus, Perry Shapiro, and Dugyu Yengin, 2019, Journal of Public Economics, 175, 1-16. 

“Dual-Process Reasoning in Charitable Giving: Learning from Non-results,” with Joël van der Weele, 2017, Games, 8(3), 36-49.  Supplementary Material.

“Self-Image and Willful Ignorance in Social Decisions,” with Joël van der Weele, 2017, Journal of the European Economic Association, 15(1), 173-217.  Supplementary Data.

"Self-Signaling and Social-Signaling in Giving," 2015, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 117, 26-39.

"Strategic Ignorance and the Robustness of Social Preferences," 2014, Management Science, 60(11), 2659-2665. [Online Appendix]

"The Control Premium: A Preference for Payoff Autonomy," with Dave Owens and Ryan Fackler, 2014, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 6(4), 138-61.

"Shifting the Blame to a Powerless Intermediary," with Regine Oexl, 2013, Experimental Economics, 16(3), 306-312.

"An Unlucky Feeling: Overconfidence and Noisy Feedback," with Dave Owens, 2012, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 84(2), 510-524.

"On Relations of Invariants for Vector-Valued Bilinear Forms," with Thomas Garrity, 2004, Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra, 11, 24-40.

Working Papers:

“Unwillingly Informed: the Prosocial Impact of Third-Party Informers,” with Tony Hua, Karine Nyborg, and Jo Thori Lind, (2025), revise and resubmit at Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 

Book Chapters :

"Land Assemblage: Efficiency and Equity in Public-Private Projects" with Jonathan Pincus and Perry Shapiro, 2014, Research Handbook on Economic Models of Law, Thomas J. Miceli and Matthew J. Baker, eds., 14-32, Edward Elgar.

In Progress:

“Image Incentives with Team Production” 

“The Illusion of Observation: Can Watchful Eyes Nudge Against Self-Serving Ignorance?” (with Tony Hua) 

"Evaluating the Tradeoff Between Efficiency and Property Rights in Assembly Mechanisms"

“Prosocial Ignorance”