Research

Published and Forthcoming Papers

• Status Goods: Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards
  (with Leonardo Bursztyn, Bruno Ferman, Martin Kanz, and Gautam Rao)
  The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(3), 1 August 2018, pp. 1561–1595.

• Moral Incentives in Credit Card Debt Repayment: Evidence from a Field Experiment
  (with Leonardo Bursztyn, Daniel Gottlieb, and Martin Kanz)
  Journal of Political Economy, 127(4), August 2019, pp. 1641-1683.

• From Extreme to Mainstream: The Erosion of Social Norms
  (with Leonardo Bursztyn and Georgy Egorov)
  American Economic Review, 110(11), November 2020, pp. 3522-3548.

• Corruption and Legislature Size: Evidence from Brazil
  (with Diogo G.C. Britto)
  European Journal of Political Economy, 65, December 2020, 101940.

• Global Behaviors, Perceptions, and the Emergence of Social Norms at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic
  (with Lukas Hensel, Marc Witte, Stefano Caria, Thiemo Fetzer, Friedrich M. Goetz, Margarita Gomez, Johannes Haushofer, Andriy Ivchenko, Gordon Kraft-Todd, Elena Reutskaja, Christopher Roth, Erez Yoeli, and Jon M. Jachimowicz)
  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 193, January 2022, 473–496.

• Reporting Peers’ Wrongdoing: Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Financial Incentives on Morally Controversial Behavior
  Journal of the European Economic Association, 21(3), June 2023, 1033–1071.

Working Papers

• How do Borrowers Respond to a Debt Moratorium? Experimental Evidence from Consumer Loans in India
  (with Joseph Hall, and Martin Kanz)

• Strengthening Fragile States: Evidence from Mobile Salary Payments in Afghanistan
  (with Joshua Blumenstock, Michael Callen, Anastasiia Faikina, and Tarek Ghani)

• The Role of Job Benefits in Job Search: Evidence from a Large-Scale Online Field Experiment
  (with Andreas Beerli, Andreas Gulyas, Daniel Kopp, Mahsa Khoshnama, and Michael Siegenthaler)

Other Research Projects

• Reproducibility in Management Science
  (with Miloš Fišar, Ben Greiner, Christoph Huber, Elena Katok, Ali I. Ozkes, and the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration)
  Management Science, 70(3), March 2024, 1343–1356.
  Note: Member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration.

• Evaluating COVID-19 Public Health Messaging in Italy: Self-Reported Compliance and Growing Mental Health Concerns
  (with Soubhik Barari, Stefano Caria, Antonio Davola, Paolo Falco, Thiemo Fetzer, Lukas Hensel, Andriy Ivchenko, Jon Jachimowicz, Gary King, Gordon Kraft-Todd, Alice Ledda, Mary MacLennan, Lucian Mutoi, Claudio Pagani, Elena Reutskaja, and Federico Raimondi Slepoi)

Policy Briefs

• Is Nepal on a Path Towards Caste Inclusive Political Leadership? An Analysis of the 2022 Local Level Elections
  (with Rohini Pande, Michael Callen, Soledad Artiz Prillaman, Binod Paudel, and Sarah Danner)

• Is Nepal on a Path Towards Gender Inclusive Political Leadership? An Analysis of the 2022 Local Level Elections
  (with Rohini Pande, Michael Callen, Soledad Artiz Prillaman, Binod Paudel, and Sarah Danner)

• Political Social Networks and Women’s Political Representation
  (with Rohini Pande, Michael Callen, and Soledad Artiz Prillaman)

• Coalition and Women’s Political Representation in Nepal
  (with Rohini Pande, Michael Callen, Soledad Artiz Prillaman, and Aayushma Manandhar)