"Are Mature Smokers Misinformed?" with Ahmed
Khwaja, Frank Sloan and Yang Wang, Journal of Health Economics 28(2) (2009), 385-397. pdf
"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. New Version. July, 2008. 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