Research

Journal Articles

1. "Damaging conflict: All-pay auctions with negative spillovers and bimodal bidding," with James Boudreau, Kristy Buzard, Timothy Matthews and Shane Sanders. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Forthcoming.
2. "Prosecutorial discretion: A theoretical and experimental investigation," with Stanton Hudja, Jason Ralston, Jason Aimone and Charles North. Social Choice and Welfare, Forthcoming.
3. "Reducing misinformation on social media: An experimental evaluation of two policy interventions," with Zeeshan Samad. Experimental Economics, Forthcoming.
4. "Bayesian persuasion with fact-checking: An experimental investigation," with Zeeshan Samad. European Economic Review, Forthcoming.
5. "Equilibrium play in voluntary ultimatum games: Beneficence cannot be extorted - Comment," with Austin Brooksby, Jacob Meyer, Vernon Smith and Robbie Spofford. Games and Economic Behavior, Forthcoming.
6. "Bias, Trust, and Trustworthiness: An Experimental Study of Post Justice System Outcomes," with Jason Aimone, Charles North and Jason Ralston. Review of Law & Economics, Forthcoming.
7. "Anticipated Regret: An Experimental Test of Information Avoidance," with Therese Cavlovic and Brandon Koford. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2025.
8. "Relative Feedback Response in Competitive Environments," with Diego Aycinena, Rimvydas Baltaduonis, Haylee Downey and Kristian Fors. Review of Behavioral Economics, 2025.
9. "How Policing Incentives Affect Crime, Measurement, and Justice," with Jordan Adamson. Economic Inquiry, 2025.
10. "Sympathy with Resentment: Willingness to Report Criminal Behavior Depends on the Punishment," with Jason Aimone, Vernon Smith and Bart Wilson. Public Choice, 2024.
11. "An Experimental Exploration of Reasonable Doubt," with Jason Aimone, Stanton Hudja, Charles North and Jason Ralston. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024.
12. "Social Media, Misinformation, and Voting Decisions," with Prithvijit Mukherjee. Political Behavior, 2024.
13. "The Role of Luck in Political and Economic Competition: Noisy All-Pay Auctions," with James Boudreau, Haikady Nagaraja and Shane Sanders. Public Choice, 2024.
14. "Moderating (Mis)information," with Prithvijit Mukherjee. Public Choice, 2024.
15. "Does Free Information Provision Crowd out Costly Information Acquisition? It's a Matter of Timing," with Diego Aycinena, Alexander Elbittar and Andrei Gomberg. Games and Economic Behavior, 2023.
16. "Abstention and Informedness in Nonpartisan Elections," with Jacob Meyer. Games and Economic Behavior, 2023.
17. "Prosecutor Plea Bargaining and Conviction Rate Structure: Evidence from an Experiment," with Jason Aimone, Charles North and Jason Ralston. Public Choice, 2023.
18. "Social Norms and Dishonesty across Societies," with Diego Aycinena, Benjamin Beranek and Jonathan Schulz. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022.
19. "Intertemporal Choice Experiments and Large-Stakes Behavior," with Diego Aycinena, Szabolcs Blazsek and Charles Sprenger. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022.
20. "Using Data from Classroom Experiments to Teach Deadweight Loss," with Austin Brooksby. Journal for Economic Educators, 2022.
21. "Endogenous Entry in Contests with Incomplete Information: Theory and Experiments," with Diego Aycinena. European Journal of Political Economy, 2019.
22. "Smoothing, Discounting, and Demand for Intra-Household Control for Recipients of Conditional Cash Transfers," with Diego Aycinena, Szabolcs Blazsek and Betzy Sandoval. Journal of Applied Economics, 2019.
23. "Priming the Jury by Asking for Donations: An Empirical and Experimental Study," with Jason Aimone and Charles North. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019.
24. "Stag Hunt Contests and Alliance Formation," with James Boudreau and Shane Sanders. Public Choice, 2019.
25. "Valuation Structure in Incomplete Information Contests: Experimental Evidence," with Diego Aycinena and Rimvydas Baltaduonis. Public Choice, 2019.
26. "Discounting and Digit Ratio: Low 2D:4D Predicts Patience for a Sample of Females," with Diego Aycinena. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2018.
27. "An Experiment on Asymmetric Information in First-Price Common-Value Auctions: The Blessed Winner," with Brit Grosskopf and Rajiv Sarin. Games and Economic Behavior, 2018.
28. "Informed Entry in Auctions," with Diego Aycinena and Hernán Bejarano. International Journal of Game Theory, 2018.
29. "Auctions with Endogenous Participation and an Uncertain Number of Bidders: Experimental Evidence," with Diego Aycinena. Experimental Economics, 2018.
30. "Classrooms on the Frontier: Integrating Original Research into Lectures," with Matthew Meng. Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, 2018.
31. "Two-bidder All-Pay Auctions with Interdependent Valuations, Including the Highly Competitive Case," with Theodore Turocy. Journal of Economic Theory, 2016.
32. "Fraying of the Ties that Bind: Community-Level Financial Institutions and HIV/AIDS with Evidence from KwaZulu Natal, South Africa," with Benjamin Linkow. Journal of African Economies, 2016.
33. "Common-Value Procurement Auctions with Renegotiation," with Rimvydas Baltaduonis. Theoretical Economics Letters, 2014.
34. "Valuation Structure in First-Price and Least-Revenue Auctions: An Experimental Investigation," with Diego Aycinena and Rimvydas Baltaduonis. Experimental Economics, 2014.
35. "Risk Preferences and Prenatal Exposure to Sex Hormones for Ladinos," with Diego Aycinena and Rimvydas Baltaduonis. PLoS One, 2014.

Revisions Requested

• "Commitment and Threats in Adversarial Bargaining: Insights from a Plea Bargaining Experiment," with Pablo Cuellar. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
• "Adversarial bargaining with exogenous shocks," with Pablo Cuellar. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
• "Damaging conflict: All-pay auctions with negative spillovers and bimodal bidding," with James Boudreau, Kristy Buzard, Timothy Matthews and Shane Sanders. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

Submitted

• "Gender Differences in Preferences For Criminal Justice Error Types: An Experiment," with Jason Aimone, Stanton Hudja, Charles North, Jason Ralston and Siyu Wang.
• "False Confessions: An Experimental Laboratory Study of the Innocence Problem," with Jason Aimone, Charles North and Jason Ralston.
• "A Practical Public Good Mechanism for Policing: Theory and Experiment," with Jordan Adamson.

Working Papers

• "Tu Mihi Soli Places: An Experiment on the Competitiveness of All-Pay Auctions with Private Information," with Theodore Turocy.
• "Asymmetric Information in Contests: Theory and Experiments," with Brit Grosskopf and Rajiv Sarin.
• "Willingness to Pay for Fact-Checking," with Prithvijit Mukherjee.
• "Oaths and Evasion: Variable Honesty in Tax Evasion Games," with Logan Krebs.
• "Partisan Cues and Immigration Misinformation," with Prithvijit Mukherjee and Jennifer Morales.
• "Incumbency in Imperfectly Discriminating Contests."

Works in Progress

• "Probabilistic Punishment in Public Goods Games"
  • Design and software complete.
• "Evaluating the Econometric Evaluations of Policing Policy with Experimental Data," with Jordan Adamson.
  • Design and software complete.
• "Asymmetric Information and Equilibrium Selection," with Diego Aycinena and Rimvydas Baltaduonis.
  • Data collection complete, data analysis in progress.
• "Kinship Ties and Social Norms on the Enforcement of Norms," with Diego Aycinena and Jonathan Schulz.
  • Data collection complete, data analysis in progress.
• "Tilting the Playing Field in All-Pay Auctions," with Daniel Kovenock.
  • Data collection complete, data analysis in progress.
• "Revenue Equivalence in Common-Value Auctions with Asymmetric Information"
  • Model complete, manuscript in progress.