PUBLICATIONS
Reminders, but not monetary incentives, increase COVID-19 booster uptake
with Mireille Jacobson, Manisha Shah, Matthew Kopetsky, Rajiv Pramanik, and Samir Shah
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(31), 2023
Financial Incentives and Other Nudges Do Not Increase COVID-19 Vaccinations among the Vaccine Hesitant
with Mireille Jacobson, Manisha Shah, Rajiv Pramanik, and Samir Shah
Vaccine, 40(43), 2022
Selected Press Coverage: The Atlantic, Bloomberg, Freakonomics, M.D., NPR [1,2,3], Wall Street Journal
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in SARS-COV-2 Testing and COVID-19 Outcomes in a Medicaid Managed Care Cohort
with Mireille Jacobson, Manisha Shah, Rajiv Pramanik, and Samir Shah
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 61 (5), 2021
Selected Press Coverage: CNN, KNX NewsRadio, NBC News, Telemundo, Univision, USC News
Battle for the Thermostat: Gender and the Effects of Temperature
with Agne Kajackaite
PLOS One, 14 (5), 2019
Selected Press Coverage: The Atlantic, BBC [1, 2, 3], Bloomberg, CNN, The Daily Show, Fox, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, New York Post, NPR Weekend Edition, NPR Morning Edition, PBS Nova , Planet Money, Popular Science, Smithsonian, Scientific American, Time, USA Today, Washington Post [1, 2]
The Effect of Pollution on Office Workers: Evidence from Call Centers in China
with Joshua S. Graff Zivin and Tal Gross and Matthew J. Neidell
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11 (1), 2019
Selected Press Coverage: The Economist, Financial Times, New York Times, PBS NewsHour, Washington Post, Yahoo!
Something in the Air: Pollution and the Demand for Health Insurance
with Wei Huang and Yongxiang Wang
Review of Economic Studies, 85 (3), 2018
Going to Pot? Medical Marijuana Dispensaries and Crime
with Mireille Jacobson
Journal of Urban Economics, 100, 2017
Selected Press Coverage: Los Angeles Times, Curbed, Entrepreneur, Pacific Standard, N.Y. Daily News, L.A. Weekly, Newsweek, OC Register, The Hill
Physician Agency and Patient Survival
with Craig C. Earle, M.D. and Mireille Jacobson and Joseph Newhouse
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 134, 2017
Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns
with Samuel M. Hartzmark and David Solomon and Eugene F. Soltes
Review of Financial Studies, 30(1), 2016
Selected Press Coverage: Bloomberg News, Bloomberg View, Alpha Architect, Capital Ideas
Awards: Hillcrest Behavioral Finance Award, California Corporate Finance Conference Best Paper Award
Particulate Pollution and the Productivity of Pear Packers
with Joshua S. Graff Zivin and Tal Gross and Matthew J. Neidell
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 8(3), 2016
Corrigengum 11(3), 2019
Selected Press Coverage: The Economist, New York Times, Washington Post, Business Insider, Freakonomics
Looking for Someone to Blame: Delegation, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Disposition Effect
with David Solomon and Mark Westerfield
Journal of Finance, 71(1), 2016
Selected Press Coverage: Financial Times, CNN, Alpha Architect, Ignites, Motley Fool, Psychology Today
How Many Pears Would a Pear Packer Pack if a Pear Packer Could Pack Pears at Quasi-Exogenously Varying Piece Rates?
with Tal Gross
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 99, 2014. Lead Article
Selected Press Coverage: Don't Panic Geocast
Natural Disaster Management: Earthquake Risk and Hospitals' Provision of Essential Services in California
with Mireille Jacobson
Regulation versus Litigation: Perspectives from Economics and Law, Daniel Kessler, ed. 2010, University of Chicago Press
Working Papers
What Do Not-For-Profit Hospitals Maximize? Evidence from California's Seismic Retrofit Mandate
with Mireille Jacobson
(Revision Requested, Journal of Public Economics)
Selected Press Coverage: New York Times
Judge Specific Difference in Chapter 11 and Firm Outcomes
with Antoinette Schoar
(Revision Requested, Journal of Finance)
The Chinese Collectibles Bubble
with Jing Shi and Yongxiang Wang
Animal Spirits: Stock Market Volatility and Loan Officer Decision Making (under revision)
with Wei Huang and Yongxiang Wang
Categorical Consideration: Theory, Evidence and Market Implications
Experiments in Choice: An Experimental Evaluation of Discrete-Choice Models of Product Differentiation
with Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir
Shorter publications
Financial incentives and other nudges do not increase COVID-19 vaccinations among the hesitant
with Mireille Jacobson, Manisha Shah, Rajiv Pramanik, and Samir B. Shah
Vox EU, December 2021
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Covid-19 Testing and Outcomes
with Mireille Jacobson, Manisha Shah, Rajiv Pramanik, and Samir B. Shah
Public Health Post, December 2021
The Economic Rationale for Strong Action Now Against COVID-19
with Mireille Jacobson
STAT News, March 2020
Going to Pot? The Impact of Dispensary Closures on Crime
with Mireille Jacobson
CATO Institute Research Briefs in Economic Policy, 90, November 2017
When a Retail Store Closes, Crime Increases Around It
with Mireille Jacobson
Harvard Business Review, June 2017
Air Pollution is Making Office Workers Less Productive
with Joshua Graff Zivin, Tal Gross and Matthew Neidell
Harvard Business Review, September 2016
Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns
with Samuel M. Hartzmark, David H. Solomon and Eugene F. Soltes
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, September 2016
The effect of pollution on worker productivity: Evidence from call-centre workers in China
with Joshua Graff Zivin, Tal Gross and Matthew Neidell
Vox EU, July 2016
WORKs in progress
dlPFC and Optimal Financial Decision Making
with Cary Frydman and Todd Hare
Neural Dynamics and Decision-Making in a Financial Trading Task
with Cary Frydman and Alison Harris