Education:
Ph.D. (Economics), University of California, Berkeley, 2007
B.A. (Economics with minor in Mathematics), Brigham Young University, 2002

Research Interests:
Behavioral Economics and Labor Economics

Refereed Publications

  1. Reacting to Rankings: Evidence from "America's Best Hospitals" forthcoming in Journal of Health Economics, 2007.
  2. A New Perspective on Stereotypical Gender Differences in Test Scores forthcoming in Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007. With Justin Sydnor.
  3. The Impact of College Sports Success on the Quantity and Quality of Student ApplicationsSouthern Economic Journal (2009) 75(3), 750-780. With Jaren C Pope.
      4. Press Reactions
    • AP Article (covered by USA Today, LA Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and others)
  4. Benefits of Bilingualism: Evidence from Mormon MissionariesEconomics of Education Review (2008) 27(2), 234-242.
  5. Poker Superstars: Skill or Luck? CHANCE (2008) 21(4), 25-28. With Rachel Croson and Peter Fishman.

Working Papers

  1. Is Tiger Woods Loss Averse? Persistent Bias in the Face of Experience, Competition, and High Stakesrevise and resubmit American Economic Review, 2009. With Maurice Schweitzer.
  2. What's in a Picture? Evidence of Discrimination from Prosper.com revise and resubmit Journal of Human Resources, 2008. With Justin Sydnor.
  3. Implementing Anti-Discrimination Policies in Statistical Profiling Models revise and resubmit American Economic Journal: Policy, 2009. With Justin Sydnor.
  4. Can Losing Lead to Winning With Jonah Berger.
  5. Does Online Search Crowd Out Traditional Search and Improve Matching Efficiency? Evidence from Craigslist under review, 2008. With Kory Kroft.
  6. Crime and Property Values: Evidence from the 1990's Crime Drop under review, 2009. With Jaren C Pope.
  7. How Personal Experience with a Fine Influences Behavior under review, 2009. With Michael Haselhuhn, Maurice Schweitzer and Peter Fishman.
  8. Understanding College Application Decisions: Why College Sports Success Matters under review, 2008. With Jaren C Pope.

Work in Progress

  1. Inattention in the Used Car MarketWith Nicola Lacetera and Justin Sydnor.
  2. The Cost of a HomicideWith Jaren Pope.
  3. Own-Gender Bias in AcademicsWith Gerard Cachon.
  4. Understanding the Predictive Nature of the ACTWith Eric Bettinger and Bridget Long.