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Published Research

Who Chooses Annuities? An Experimental Investigation of the Role of Gender, Framing and Defaults (with J. Agnew, J. Gerlach and L. Szykman), forthcoming in The American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings.

Inequality, Group Cohesion, and Public Goods Provision: An Experimental Analysis (with J. Mellor and J. Milyo), forthcoming in the Journal of Socio-Economics.

Cascade Experiments (with C. Holt), forthcoming in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2^nd edition, L. Blume and S. Durlauf (eds.).

Congestion Pricing and Welfare: An Entry Experiment (with C. Holt and D. Reiley), Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics, Todd Cherry, Editor, Routledge Publishing, 2007.

Production and Gains from Trade (with E. Blanchard, K. Chaston, C. Holt, L. Razzolini and R.  Singleton), Perspectives on Economic Education Research, 2007.

The Economic Approach to Cooperation and Trust: Lessons for the Study of Social Capital and Health (with J. Mellor) in Social Capital and Health, Kawachi, Subramanian and Kim, editors, Springer Publishing, 2007.

Yes, Wall Street, There is a January Effect: Evidence from Laboratory Auctions (with J. Gerlach and F. DiTraglia), The Journal of Behavioral Finance, 2007.

Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from Psychology and Economics (with R. Fryer and C. Holt), in the Handbook on the Economics of Discrimination, Elgar Publishing, W. Rodgers (ed.), 2006.

Induced Heterogeneity in Trust Experiments (with J. Mellor and J. Milyo), Experimental Economics, September 2006.

Does Crime Pay: A Classroom Demonstration of Monitoring and Enforcement (with S. Stafford), Southern Economic Journal, April 2006.

Do Liberals Play Nice? The Effects of Party and Political Ideology (with J. Mellor and J. Milyo), in Advances in Applied Microeconomics, Volume 13: Experiments in Behavioral Economics, Elsevier/JAI Press, John Morgan (ed.), 2005.

Information Cascade Experiments (with C. Holt), The Handbook of Results in Experimental Economics, C. Plott and V. Smith (eds.), 2005.

Social Capital and Contributions in a Public Goods Experiment (with J. Mellor and J. Milyo), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2004.

Punishment in a Regulatory Setting: Experimental Evidence from the VCM  (with S. Stafford), Journal of Regulatory Economics, July 2003: data

An Experimental Analysis of Rent Seeking Under Varying Competitive Conditions (with S. Stafford), Public Choice, April 2003: data

Experimental Economics and Public Choice (with C. Holt), The Encyclopedia of Public Choice, C. Rowley (ed.), 2003.

Information Cascades and Rational Conformity (with C. Holt), The Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, K. McCabe (ed.), 2002.

Payoff Effects in Information Cascade Experiments Economic Inquiry, October 2001: no payoff data, $2 payoff data, $4 payoff data, estimation program (error parameter does not vary across rounds)

Public Choice as an Experimental Science The Elgar Companion to Public Choice, W. Shughart and L. Razzolini (eds.), 2001.

Choosing Winners and Losers in a Permit Trading Game (with S. Stafford), The Southern Economic Journal, July 2000.

Cultural Differences in Attitudes Toward Bargaining (with Y. Rodgers and R. Rodriguez), Economics Letters, 2000:    U.S. Data, Honduras Data

Agendas and Strategic Voting (with C. Holt), The Southern Economic Journal, January 1999.

Information Cascades in the Laboratory (with C. Holt), The American Economic Review, December 1997: symmetric treatment data, asymmetric treatment data

Information Cascades (with C. Holt), The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1996.

Understanding Bayes' Rule (with C. Holt), The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1996.

Working Papers

An Experimental Analysis of Intertemporal Decision-Making Under Uncertainty (with S. Stafford), under review.

An Experimental Study of the Effect of Announcements on Public Goods Contributions (with S. Stafford), instructions.

Did the Devil Make Them Do It? The Effect of Religion in Public Goods and Trust Games (with J. Mellor), under review.

Gender, Nationality and the Provision of Public Goods (with F. DiTraglia and J.Gerlach)

Inequality and Public Good Provision: An Experimental Analysis (with J. Mellor and J. Milyo).

Location, Location, Location! A Classroom Demonstration of the Hotelling Model (with Beth Freeborn, Jessica Holmes, Mark Jeffreys, Dan Lass, Jack Soper) under review.

Predicting Health Behaviors with an Experimental Measure of Risk Preference (with J. Mellor), under review.