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Faculty Publications
2025
- Access to Digital Credit for Smallholder Farmers: Experimental Evidence from Ghana (Dean Karlan, Christopher Udry, Monica Lambon-Quayefio, and Utsav Manjeer, Institute for Policy Research Working Paper Series WP-25-3, January 2025)
- Prediction with Differential Covariate Classification: Illustrated by Racial/Ethnic Classification in Medical Risk Assessment (Charles Manski, John Mullahy, and Atheendar Venkataramani, Institute for Policy Research Working Paper Series WP-25-4, January 2025)
- Robust Implementation with Costly Information (Harry Pei and Bruno Strulovici, The Review of Economic Studies vol. 92, no. 1, January 2025)
- Why Strong Rewards in Government and Nonprofit Programs Don’t Work: A Social Heisenberg Principle (Burton Weisbrod, Institute for Policy Research Working Paper Series WP-25-01, January 2025)
- Does Q&A Boost Engagement? Health Messaging Experiments in the U.S. and Ghana (Dean Karlan, Erika Kirgios, Susan Athey, Angela Duckworth, Michael Luca, Katherine Milkman, and Molly Offer-Westort, Institute for Policy Research Working Paper Series WP-25-6, February 2025)
- Human Capital at Home: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in the Philippines (Dean Karlan, Noam Angrist, Sarah Kabay, Lincoln Lau, and Kevin Wong, Working Paper Series WP-24-28, February 2025)
- Incentives in K-12 Education – The Perils of Not Just Measuring Performance by Standardized Tests, but Financially Rewarding It (Burton Weisbrod, Institute for Policy Research Working Paper Series WP-25-5, February 2025)
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Robust Monopoly Regulation (Yingni Guo and Eran Shmaya, American Economic Review vol. 115, no. 2, February 2025)
- What Is the General Welfare? Welfare Economic Perspectives (Charles Manski, Institute for Policy Research Working Paper Series WP-25-7, February 2025)
- Community Enforcement with Endogenous Records (Harry Pei, forthcoming in The Review of Economic Studies)
- Comparative Statics with Adjustment Costs and the Le Chatelier Principle (Eddie Dekel, John Quah, and Ludvig Sinander, Econometrica vol. 93, no. 3, March 2025)
- Feedback Design in Dynamic Moral Hazard (Jeffrey Ely, George Georgiadis, and Luis Rayo, Econometrica vol. 93, no. 2, March 2025)
2024
- An Economic Framework for Vaccine Prioritization (Piotr Dworczak, Mohammad Akbarpour, Eric Budish, and Scott Duke Kominers, Quarterly Journal of Economics vol. 139, no. 1, February 2024)
- Optimal Long-term Health Insurance Contracts: Characterization, Computation, and Welfare Effects (Igal Hendel, Soheil Ghili, Ben Handel, and Michael D. Whinston, The Review of Economic Studies vol. 91, no. 2, March 2024)
- The Supply-side Effects of Monetary Policy (Kunal Sangani, David R. Baqaee, and Emmanuel Farhi, Journal of Political Economy vol. 132, no. 4, April 2024)
- Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms (Piotr Dworczak, Mohammad Akbarpour, and Scott Duke Kominers, Journal of Political Economy vol. 132, no. 6, June 2024)
- Expectations, Infections, and Economic Activity (Martin Eichenbaum, Miguel Godinho de Matos, Francisco Lima, Sergio Rebelo, and Mathias Trabandt, Journal of Political Economy, vol. 132, no. 7, July 2024)
- On the Use of Outcome Tests for Detecting Bias in Decision Making (Ivan Canay, Magne Mogstad, and Jack Mountjoy, The Review of Economic Studies vol. 91, no. 4, July 2024)
- When Less Is More: Experimental Evidence on Information Delivery During India’s Demonetisation (Benjamin Golub, Abhijit Banerjee, Emily Breza, and Arun G. Chandrasekhar, The Review of Economic Studies vol. 91, no. 4, July 2024)
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- Drivers of Racial Differences in C-sections (Molly Schnell, Adriana Corredor-Waldron, and Janet Currie, Institute for Policy Research Working Paper Series WP-24-24, September 2024)
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The Intertemporal Keynesian Cross (Matthew Rognlie, Adrien Auclert, and Ludwig Straub, Journal of Political Economy vol. 132, no. 10, October 2024)
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- Mobilizing the Manpower of Mothers: Childcare Under the Lanham Act During WWII (Joseph Ferrie, Claudia Goldin, and Claudia Olivetti, Institute for Policy Research Working Paper Series WP-24-19, October 2024)
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- Accounting for Nonresponse in Election Polls: Total Margin of Error (Charles Manski and Jeff Dominitz, Institute for Policy Research Working Paper Series WP-24-22, November 2024)
- A Technology-gap Model of 'Premature' Deindustrialization (Kiminori Matsuyama and Ippei Fujiwara, American Economic Review vol. 114, no. 11, November 2024)
- Unconditional Cash Transfers: A Bayesian Meta-analysis of Randomized Evaluations in Low- and Middle-income Countries (Dean Karlan, Christopher Udry, Tommaso Crosta, Finley Ong, and Julius Rüschenpöhler, Institute for Policy Research Working Paper Series WP-24-21, November 2024)
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2023
- Permutation-based Tests for Discontinuities in Event Studies (Federico Bugni, Jia Li, and Qiyuan Li, Quantitative Economics vol. 14, no. 1, January 2023)
- The Effects of Competition on Physician Prescribing (Molly Schnell, Anran Li, and Janet Currie, Institute for Policy Research Working Paper Series WP-23-03, February 2023)
- Reputation Building under Observational Learning (Harry Pei, The Review of Economic Studies vol. 90 no. 3, May 2023)
- Culture and the Historical Fertility Transition (W. Walker Hanlon and Brian Beach, The Review of Economic Studies vol. 90, no. 4, July 2023)
- The Expansionary and Contractionary Supply-side Effects of Health Insurance (Molly Schnell and Eilidh Geddes, working paper in National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2023)
- Wealth Dynamics in Communities (Yingni Guo, Daniel Barron, and Bryony Reich, The Review of Economic Studies vol. 90, no. 4, July 2023)
- The Investment Effects of Market Integration: Evidence from Renewable Energy Expansion in Chile (Mar Reguant, Luis E. Gonzales, and Koichiro Ito, Econometrica vol. 91, no. 5, September 2023)
- Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali (Lori Beaman, Dean Karlan, Christopher Udry, and Bram Thuysbaert, Econometrica vol. 91, no. 5, September 2023)
- Learning from Neighbours about a Changing State (Benjamin Golub, Krishna Dasaratha, and Nir Hak, The Review of Economic Studies vol. 90, no. 5, October 2023)
- Optimal Feedback in Contests (Jeffrey Ely, George Georgiadis, Sina Khorasani, and Luis Rayo, The Review of Economic Studies vol. 90, no. 5, October 2023)
- Public Debt as Private Liquidity: Optimal Policy (George-Marios Angeletos, Fabrice Collard, and Harris Dellas, Journal of Political Economy vol. 131, no. 11, November 2023)
2022
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- Agricultural Technology in Africa (Christopher Udry and Tavneet Suri, Journal of Economic Perspectives vol. 36, no. 1, February 2022)
- State-dependent Effects of Monetary Policy: The Refinancing Channel (Martin Eichenbaum, Sergio Rebelo, and Arlene Wong, American Economic Review vol. 112, no. 3, March 2022)
- Measuring the Completeness of Economics Models (Annie Liang, Drew Fudenberg, Jon Kleinberg, and Sendhil Mullainathan, Journal of Political Economy vol. 130, no. 4, April 2022)
- Bidding and Drilling under Uncertainty: An Empirical Analysis of Contingent Payment Auctions (Vivek Bhattacharya, Andrey Ordin, and James W. Roberts, Journal of Political Economy vol. 130, no. 5, May 2022)
- Testing for Differences in Stochastic Network Structure (Eric Auerbach, Econometrica vol. 90, no. 3, May 2022)
- Wall Street and Silicon Valley: A Delicate Interaction (Alessandro Pavan, George-Marios Angeletos, and Guido Lorenzoni, The Review of Economic Studies vol. 90, no. 3, July 2022)
- Supply Network Formation and Fragility (Benjamin Golub, Matthew Elliott, and Matthew V. Leduc, American Economic Review vol. 112, no. 8, August 2022)
- Preparing for the Worst but Hoping for the Best: Robust (Bayesian) Persuasion (Piotr Dworczak and Alessandro Pavan, Econometrica vol. 90, no. 5, September 2022)
- Structural Rationality in Dynamic Games (Marciano Siniscalchi, Econometrica vol. 90, no. 5, October 2022)
2021
- Heterogeneity, Measurement Error, and Misallocation: Evidence from African Agriculture (Christopher Udry and Douglas Gollin, The Journal of Political Economy vol. 129, no. 1, January 2021)
- Monetary Policy and the Predictability of Nominal Exchange Rates (Martin Eichenbaum, B.K. Johannsen, and S.T. Rebelo, The Review of Economic Studies vol. 88, no. 1, January 2021)
- Structural Change with Long‐run Income and Price Effects (Martí Mestieri, Diego Comin and Danial Lashkari, Econometrica vol. 89, no. 1, January 2021)
- The Use and Misuse of Coordinated Punishments (Yingni Guo and Daniel Barron, The Quarterly Journal of Economics vol. 136, no. 1, February 2021)
- On the Iterated Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Games (Federico Bugni and Jackson Bunting, The Review of Economic Studies vol. 88, no. 3, May 2021)
- Taxation Under Learning-by-doing (Alessandro Pavan and Miltos Makris, The Journal of Political Economy vol. 129, no. 6, June 2021)
- Redistribution Through Markets (Piotr Dworczak, Scott Duke Kominers, and Mohammad Akbarpour, Econometrica vol. 89, no. 4, July 2021)
- Economic Predictions with Big Data: The Illusion of Sparsity (Giorgio Primiceri, Domenico Giannone, and Michele Lenza, Econometrica vol. 89, no. 5, September 2021)
- An Empirical Model of R&D Procurement Contests: An Analysis of the DOD SBIR Program (Vivek Bhattacharya, Econometrica vol. 89, no. 5, September 2021)
- Using the Sequence-space Jacobian to Solve and Estimate Heterogeneous-agent Models (Matthew Rognlie, Adrien Auclert, Bence Bardóczy, and Ludwig Straub, Econometrica vol. 89, no. 5, September 2021)
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- The Mortgage Rate Conundrum (Giorgio Primiceri, Alejandro Justiniano, and Andrea Tambalotti, Journal of Political Economy vol. 129, no. 12, December 2021)
2020
- Mechanism Design With Aftermarkets: Cutoff Mechanisms (Piotr Dworczak, Econometrica vol. 88, no. 6, November 2020)
- Sequential Information Design (Jeffery Ely and Laura Doval, Econometrica vol. 88, no. 6, November 2020)
- Targeting Interventions in Networks (Benjamin Golub, Andrea Galeotti, Sanjeev Goyal, Econometrica vol. 88, no. 6, November 2020)
