Previous research shows that many people seek financial advice from non-experts, and that peer interactions influence financial decisions. We investigate whether such influences are beneficial, harmful, or simply haphazard. In our laboratory experiment, face-to-face communication with a randomly...

How does effort respond to the perceived relationship between effort and performance? To answer this question, I conduct a field experiment with a widely used online learning platform. I exogenously manipulate students' beliefs about the effort-performance relationship by assigning them to...

How did the Great Recession affect the college degree field choices? Utilizing the geographic variation in the severity of the recession in the US, I answer this question using the differences-in-differences and synthetic controls approaches. I find that the Great Recession affected...

Tenure decisions in economics are strongly tied to the quantity and quality of publications in peer-reviewed journals. We examine whether female economists and economists at lower- ranked institutions face discrimination in the publication process. To do so, we conduct an experiment with the...

Previous research shows that many people seek financial advice from non-experts, and that peer interactions influence financial decisions. We investigate whether such influences are beneficial, harmful, or simply haphazard. In our laboratory experiment, face-to-face communication with a randomly...

Previous research shows that many people seek financial advice from non-experts, and that peer interactions influence financial decisions. We investigate whether such influences are beneficial, harmful, or simply haphazard. In our laboratory experiment, face-to-face commu- nication with a...

In spite of the growing market of online learning platforms, causal estimates regarding returns to effort in these platforms are scarce due to high attrition rates and endogeneity of effort. In a one-month long field experiment, I randomly assign participants to complete different number of...