Research

Published and Accepted Papers

“Nominal Wage Rigidity in Village Labor Markets,” Forthcoming, American Economic Review, 2018.
          [Slides]
          Recipient of the Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award in Behavioural Economics.
          Coverage: “Could this be the best paper on nominal wage rigidity?” Marginal Revolution.

“The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality” (with Emily Breza and Yogita Shamdasani). Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018. 133(2): 611-663.
          [Slides]  [Replication Files]
          Coverage: “When Unequal Pay Makes Everyone Less Productive,” Wall Street Journal.

“Self-Control at Work” (with Michael Kremer and Sendhil Mullainathan). Journal of Political Economy, 2015. 123(6): 1227-1277 [lead article].
          [Online Appendix]
          Coverage: “Looking at Productivity as a State of Mind,” New York Times.

“Self-Control and the Development of Work Arrangements” (with Michael Kremer and Sendhil Mullainathan). American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2010. 100(2): pp. 624-628.


Working Papers

“The Limits of Neighborly Exchange” (with Ryan Bubb and Sendhil Mullainathan), 2018.

“Scabs: The Social Suppression of Labor Supply” (with Emily Breza and Nandita Krishnaswamy), 2018.

Selected Work in Progress

“Separation Failures: Market-Level Evidence for Labor Misallocation” (with Aprajit Mahajan)

“Testing for Labor Rationing: Revealed Preference Estimates from Demand Shocks” (with Emily Breza and Yogita Shamdasani)

“Does Poverty Lower Productivity?” (with Sendhil Mullainathan, Suanna Oh, and Frank Schilbach)

“The Poor Tax: Effects of Redistributive Pressure on Labor Supply in Cote D’Ivoire” (with Aletheia Donald, Eliana Carranza, and Florian Grosset)

“The Malleability of Sustained Attention” (with Christina Brown and Heather Schofield)