Stefano DellaVigna
Daniel E. Koshland, Sr. Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Business Administration
- Co-Director, Initiative in Behavioral Economics and Finance
- Co-Editor, American Economic Review
- Co-Editor, Handbook of Behavioral Economics (with Doug Bernheim and David Laibson)
- Co-PI, Social Science Prediction Platform
Working Papers
- "Understanding Expert Choices Using Decision Time", with David Card, Chenxi Jiang and Dmitry Taubinsky, April 2024
- "Policy Diffusion and Polarization across U.S. States", (with Woojin Kim), Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies, October 2024.
Publications
- "Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption", (with Woojin Kim and Elizabeth Linos), Journal of Political Economy, August 2024, Vol. 132, 2748-2789.
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"Gender Gaps at the Academies" (with David Card, Patricia Funk and Nagore Iriberri),
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023, Vol. 120..
Online Appendix -
"Evidence on
Job Search Models from a Survey of Unemployed Workers in
Germany",
with Joerg Heining, Johannes F. Schmieder and
Simon Trenkle, Quarterly Journal of Economics,
May 2022, Vol. 137, 1181-1232.
Online Appendix -
"Estimating
Social Preferences and Gift Exchange at Work",
with John List, Ulrike Malmendier and Gautam Rao, American Economic Review,
March 2022, Vol, 112, 1038-74.
Online Appendix -
"Stability of
Experimental Results: Forecasts and Evidence"
(with Devin Pope), AEJ: Microeconomics, forthcoming.
Online Appendix - "Gender Differences in Peer Recognition by Economists", (with David Card, Patricia Funk and Nagore Iriberri), Econometrica, forthcoming.
- "RCTs to Scale: Comprehensive Evidence from Two Nudge Units", (with Elizabeth Linos), Econometrica, January 2022, Vol. 90, 81-116.
- "Forecasting the Results of Experiments: Piloting an Elicitation Strategy", (with Nicholas Otis and Eva Vivalt), AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020, Vol. 110, 75-79.
- "What do Editors Maximize? Evidence from Four Economics Journals" (with David Card), Review of Economics and Statistics, March 2020, Vol. 102, 195-217.
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"Are Referees
and Editors in Economics Gender Neutral?"
(with David Card, Patricia Funk,
Nagore Irriberri), Quarterly Journal of Economics,
February 2020, Vol. 135, 269-327..
Online Appendix -
"Uniform Pricing
in US Retail Chains"
(with Matthew Gentzkow), Quarterly Journal of Economics,
November 2019, Vol. 134, 2011–2084
Online Appendix - "Predict Science to Improve Science" (with Devin Pope and Eva Vivalt), Science, October 25 2019, Vol. 366, 428-429.
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"Predicting Experimental
Results: Who Knows What?"
(with Devin Pope),
Journal of Political Economy, December 2018, Vol. 126, 2410-2456.
Online Appendix - "Structural Behavioral Economics", Handbook of Behavioral Economics, Volume 1 (eds. Doug Bernheim, Stefano DellaVigna, and David Laibson), Elsevier, October 2018.
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"What Motivates
Effort? Evidence and Expert Forecasts"
(with Devin Pope), Review of Economic Studies, April 2018, Vol. 85, 1029–1069.
Online Appendix -
Reference-Dependent
Job Search: Evidence from Hungary
(with Attila Lindner, Balazs Reizer and Johannes F. Schmieder),
Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2017, Vol. 132, 1969–2018.
Online Appendix - Does Conflict of Interest Lead to Biased Coverage? Evidence from Movie Reviews (with Johannes Hermle), Review of Economic Studies, October 2017, Vol. 84, 1510–1550.
- Voting to Tell Others, with John List, Ulrike Malmendier and Gautam Rao, Review of Economic Studies, January 2017, Vol. 84, 143-181.
- Market-based Lobbying: Evidence from Advertising Spending in Italy, with Ruben Durante, Brian Knight and Eliana La Ferrara, AEJ:Applied Economics, January 2016, Vol. 8, 224-256.
- Economic and Social Impacts of the Media, with Eliana La Ferrara, Handbook of the Economics of the Media, Vol. 1, Elsevier, January 2016.
- Page Limits on Economics Articles: Evidence from Two Journals, with David Card, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2014, Vol. 28, pp. 149-168.
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Cross-border
media and nationalism: Evidence from Serbian radio
in Croatia, with Ruben
Enikolopov, Vera Mironova, Maria Petrova and Ekaterina
Zhuravskaya, AEJ: Applied Economics, July 2014, Vol. 6, pp. 103-132.
Online Appendix -
The Importance of
Being Marginal: Gender Differences in Generosity, with John A. List,
Ulrike Malmendier, and Gautam Rao, American Economic
Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2013.
Online Appendix -
Nine Facts about
Top Journals in Economics, with David Card, December, Journal
of Economic Literature, March 2013
Online Appendix
Update to "Nine Facts about Top Journals in Economics" (4/2018) -
Testing for
Altruism and Social Pressure in Charitable Giving,
with John A. List and Ulrike Malmendier,
Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2012,
Vol. 127, pp. 1-56
Online Appendix
DATA - The Role of Theory in Field Experiments, with David Card and Ulrike Malmendier, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2011, Vol. 25, Number 3, pp. 39-62. [DATA]
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Capital Budgeting vs. Market
Timing: An
Evaluation Using Demographics, with Joshua Pollet, Journal
of Finance, February 2013, Vol. 68.
Online Appendix - Persuasion: Empirical Evidence, with Matthew Gentzkow, Annual Review of Economics, 2010, Vol.2
- Detecting Illegal Arms Trade, with Eliana La Ferrara, AEJ: Economic Policy, November 2010, Vol. 2, pp. 26-57. [DATA]
- The Effect of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity and Weight Gain, with Janet Currie, Enrico Moretti and Vikram Pathania, AEJ: Economic Policy, August 2010, Vol. 2, pp. 32-63.
- Psychology and Economics: Evidence from The Field, Journal of Economic Literature, June 2009, Vol. 47, pp. 315-372. (Older Version, includes Section on Empirical Methods)
- Does Movie Violence
Increase Violent Crime? (with Gordon Dahl), Quarterly Journal of
Economics, May 2009, Vol. 124, pp. 677-734.
Stata Program: main.do
Datasets: fulliblockday.dta [2.1 MB], fulliblock.dta [8.1 MB], fulliblocktri.dta [7.3 MB] - Investor Inattention and Friday Earnings Announcements (with Joshua Pollet), Journal of Finance, April 2009, Vol. 64, pp. 709-749. forthcoming, (formerly "Strategic Release of Information on Friday: Evidence from Earnings Announcements"). [DATA on accuracy of earnings announcement dates]
- Demographics and Industry Returns, with Joshua Pollet, American Economic Review, December 2007, Vol 97, pp. 1167-1702. (formerly "Attention, Demographics, and the Stock Market").
- The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting, with Ethan Kaplan, Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2007, Vol. 122, pp. 1187-1234. [DATA]
- The Political Impact of Media Bias, with Ethan Kaplan, in Fact Finder, Fact Filter: How media reporting affects public policy, Roumeen Islam, Ed. World Bank Publications, forthcoming.
- Paying Not To go To The Gym with Ulrike Malmendier, American Economic Review, June 2006, Vol. 96, pp. 694-719. [DATA] (formerly Overestimating Self-Control: Evidence from the Health Club Industry" and "Self-Control in the Market: Evidence from the Health Club Industry" (older version, includes model)).
- Contract Design and Self-Control: Theory and Evidence, with Ulrike Malmendier, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119, May 2004, pp.353-402.
- Job Search and Impatience, with M. Daniele Paserman, Journal of Labor Economics, July 2005, Vol. 23, pp. 527-588.
- Learning to Make Risk Neutral Choices in a Symmetric World, with Marco LiCalzi, Mathematical Social Sciences, 41(1), January 2001, pp. 19-17.
Older Papers
Courses
- Economics 219B, Class in Psychology and Economics, Spring 2020
- Economics 219B, Class in Psychology and Economics, Spring 2019
- Economics 219B, Applications of Psychology and Economics, Spring 2018
- Economics 101A, Microeconomic Theory, Spring 2017
- Economics 219B, Applications of Psychology and Economics, Spring 2017
- Economics 101A, Microeconomic Theory, Spring 2015
- Economics 219B, Applications of Psychology and Economics, Spring 2015