Research
Research
Working Papers
- Distributional Preferences in larger groups: Keeping up with the Joneses and keeping track of the tails (with Ilyana Kuziemko and Silvia Vannutelli), 2017
- Do Americans want to tax capital? Evidence from Online Surveys (with Keith Gladstone, Ilyana Kuziemko, and Suresh Naidu), 2017
- Social Ties and the Selection of China’s Political Elite (with Jing Shi, Yongxiang Wang, and Weixing Wu),2017 [email me if interested]
- Peer Effects in Legislative Voting (with Nikolaj Harmon and Emir Kamenica), 2017.
- Does Cheap Talk Affect Market Outcomes: Evidence from eBay (with Daniel Elfenbein and Brian McManus), 2017
- Financial disclosure and political selection: Evidence from India (with Florian Schulz and Vikrant Vig), 2017.
- Reference points and redistributive preferences: Experimental evidence (with Jimmy Charite and Ilyana Kuziemko), 2016.
Refereed Publications
- Social Ties and Favoritism in Chinese Science (with J. Shi, Y. Wang, and R. Xu) Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming.
- Distributional Preferences and Political Behavior (with Pamela Jakiela and Shachar Kariv), Journal of Public Economics, 2017.
- Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes: Evidence from an Indian Bank (with Daniel Paravisini and Vikrant Vig), American Economic Review, 2017.
- The distortionary effects of incentives in government: Evidence from China’s death ceiling program (with Yongxiang Wang), American Economic Journal: Applied, 2016.
- Human Capital and the Supply of Religion (with Joey Engelberg, Jay Hartzell, and Chris Parsons), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016.
- How Did the Great Recession Impact Social Preferences? (with Pamela Jakiela and Shachar Kariv), Journal of Public Economics, 2016.
- The Distributional Preferences of an Elite (with Pamela Jakiela, Shachar Kariv, and Daniel Markovits), Science, 2015.
- The Mortality Cost of Political Connections (with Yongxiang Wang), Review of Economic Studies, 2015
- Labor Supply of Politicians (with Nikolaj Harmon, Emir Kamenica, and Inger Munk), Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015.
- The Private Returns to Public Office (with Florian Schulz and Vikrant Vig), Journal of Political Economy, 2015.
- Market Structure, Reputation, and the Value of Quality Certification (with Daniel Elfenbein and Brian McManus), AEJ: Micro, forthcoming.
- Nationalism and Economic Exchange: Evidence from Shocks to Sino-Japanese Relations (with Yasushi Hamao and Yongxiang Wang), Review of Financial Studies, 2014
- Contrast Effects in Sequential Decisions: Evidence from Speed Dating (with Saurabh Bhargava), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014.
- Corruption in Chinese Privatizations (with Yongxiang Wang), Journal of Law, Economics, and Organizations, 2014
- Governance and CEO Turnover: Do Something or Do the Right Thing? (with Rakesh Khurana, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, and Soojin Yim), Management Science, 2013.
- Estimating the Value of Connections to Vice-President Cheney (with David Fisman, Julia Galef, Rakesh Khurana, and Yongxiang Wang), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Advances, 2012.
- Charity as a substitute for reputation: Evidence from an online marketplace (with Daniel Elfenbein and Brian McManus), Review of Economic Studies, 2012.
- Profiting from Government Stakes in a Command Economy: Evidence from Chinese Asset Sales (with Charles Calomiris and Yongxiang Wang), Journal of Financial Economics, 2011.
- Regulation of Entry and the Distortion of Industrial Organization, (with Virginia Sarria-Allende), Journal of Applied Economics, 2010.
- The Smuggling of Art and the Art of Smuggling: Uncovering the Illicit Trade in Cultural Property and Antiques (with Shang-Jin Wei), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2009.
- Gender and Workplace Perceptions Around the World: Evidence from the World Values Survey (with Maura O’Neill), Journal of Human Resources, 2009.
- Offshoring Tariff Evasion: Evidence from Hong Kong as Entrepôt Trader (with Peter Moustakerski and Shang-Jin Wei), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008.
- Limits to Policy Reversal: Privatization in India (with Siddhartha G. Dastidar and Tarun Khanna), Journal of Financial Economics, 2008.
- Racial Preferences in Dating (with Sheena Iyengar, Emir Kamenica, & Itamar Simonson), Review of Economic Studies, 2008.
- Corruption, Norms, and Legal Enforcement: Evidence from UN Diplomatic Parking Tickets (with Edward Miguel), Journal of Political Economy, 2007.
- Consistency, Heterogeneity, and Granularity of Individual Behavior under Uncertainty (with Syngjoo Choi, Douglas Gale, and Shachar Kariv), American Economic Review, 2007.
- Individual Preferences for Giving (with Shachar Kariv & Daniel Markovits), American Economic Review, 2007. (Note that this paper is a combination of an earlier verison of this paper, Pareto Damaging Behaviors, and Distinguishing Social Preferences from Preferences for Altruism.)
- Do Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Increase International Technology Transfer? Empirical Evidence from U.S. Firm-Level Panel Data (with Lee Branstetter and C. Fritz Foley), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2006.
- Gender Differences in Mate Selection: Evidence from a Speed Dating Experiment (with Sheena Iyengar, Emir Kamenica, and Itamar Simonson), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2006.
- Are Corruption and Taxation Really Harmful to Growth? Firm Level Evidence (with Jakob Svensson), Journal of Development Economics, 2006.
- Financial Development and Intersectoral Allocation: A New Approach (with Inessa Love),Journal of Finance, 2004.
- Precautionary Savings and the Governance of Nonprofit Organizations (with R. Glenn Hubbard), Journal of Public Economics, 2005.
- The Effect of Foreign Competition on Forecasting Bias, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005.
- Tax Rates and Tax Evasion: Evidence from “Missing” Imports in China (with Shang-Jin Wei),Journal of Political Economy, 2004.
- Does Competition Encourage Cooperation? Evidence from Trade Credit Relationships of African Firms (with Mayank Raturi), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004.
- Are Politicians Really Paid Like Bureaucrats? (with Rafael Di Tella), Journal of Law and Economics, 2004.
- Facilitating Development: The Role of Business Groups (with Tarun Khanna), World Development, 2004.
- Ethnic Ties and the Provision of Credit: Relationship-Level Evidence from African Firms, Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy, 2003.
- Trade Credit, Financial Intermediary Development, and Industry Growth (with Inessa Love), Journal of Finance, 2003.
- Decentralization and Corruption: Evidence from U.S. Federal Transfer Programs (with Roberta Gatti), Public Choice, 2002.
- Estimating the Value of Political Connections, American Economic Review, 2001.
- Are Women Really the ‘Fairer’ Sex? Corruption and Women in Goverment (with David Dollar and Roberta Gatti), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2001.
- Trade Credit and Productive Efficiency in Developing Countries, World Development, 2001.
- Is Trust a Historical Residue? Information Flows and Trust Levels (with Tarun Khanna),Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 1999.
- Cultural Influences on Symptom Presentation in Childhood (with Sandra Fisman), Journal of the Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 1999.
Other publications
- Innovations in Governance (with Eric Werker), Innovation Policy and the Economy, 2011.
- Trading favors within Chinese business groups (with Yongxiang Wang), AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2010.
- Revealing Preferences Graphically: An Old Method Gets a New Tool Kit (with Syngjoo Choi, Douglas Gale, and Shachar Kariv), American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2007.