"Time-Inconsistency
and Welfare Program Participation: Evidence from the NLSY," with Hanming
Fang. Forthcoming, International Economic Review.pdf
"Sources of Advantageous
Selection: Evidence from the Medigap Insurance Market" with Hanming Fang
and Michael Keane. Journal of Political Economy, 116(2) (2008), 303-350. pdf
"Consumption Commitments
and Employment Contracts," with Andrew Postlewaite, and Larry
Samuelson. Review of Economic Studies, 75(2) (2008), 559-578. pdf
"Time Preference,
Time Discounting, and Smoking Decisions," with Ahmed Khwaja and Frank
Sloan, Journal of Health Economics, 26(5) (2007), 927-949. pdf
"Testing the Mechanisms of Structural Models: The Case of the Mickey Mantle Effect," with Ahmed Khwaja, Hanming Fang, Michael Keane and Martin Salm, American Economic Review, P&P, 97(2) (2007), 53-59. pdf. Appendix. pdf
"Smoking, Wealth
Accumulation and the Propensity to Plan," with Ahmed Khwaja and Frank
Sloan, Economics Letters, 94(1) (2007), 96-103. pdf
"Distinguishing
Between Cognitive Biases: Beliefs vs. Time Discounting in Welfare Program
Participation," with Hanming Fang, in Behavioral Public Finance:
An Agenda, edited by Joel Slemrod and Edward McCaffery, Russell
Sage Foundation, (2006), 47-81. pdf
"Social Isolation
and Inequality," with Andrew Postlewaite, Journal of Economic
Inequality, 3(3) (2005), 243-262. pdf
"The Effect of Adolecent
Experience on Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Height," with Nicola
Persico and Andrew Postlewaite, Journal of Political Economy 112 October (2004),
1019-1053. pdf
"Street Crime and
Street Culture," International Economic Review 45(3) (2004), 761-786. pdf
"On the Compassion
of Time-limited Welfare Programs," with Hanming
Fang, Journal of Public Economics, 88(7-8) (2004),
1445-1470. pdf
Working
Papers
"Factions and Political
Competition," with Nicola Persico and J.C. Rodriguez-Pueblita. New Version. March
2008. pdf
"Willpower and the
Optimal Control of Visceral Urges," with Emre
Ozdenoren and Stephen Salant. New Version. June, 2008. pdf
"Consumption, Retirement
and Social Security: Evaluating the Efficiency of Reform that Encourages Longer
Careers," with John Laitner,
December, 2006. pdf
"Are Smokers Misinformed?
Evidence on Subjective Beliefs about Mortality and Health," with Ahmed
Khwaja and Frank Sloan, October, 2006. pdf
"Non-Cognitive Skills,
Social Success, and Labor Market Outcomes," with Andrew Postlewaite,
March, 2006. pdf
"Estimating Life-cycle
Parameters from Consumption Behavior at Retirement," with John Laitner,
February, 2005. pdf
