Papers on cognitive limitations and the design of income redistribution and social insurance programs

"Labor Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits: Evidence from Discontinuities" (with Jeffrey Liebman and David Seif), Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming.

"Who Misvotes? The Effect of Differential Cognition Costs on Election Outcomes" (joint with Kelly Shue), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 1(1), pp. 229-257, February 2009.

"Screening in New Credit Markets: Can Individual Lenders Infer Borrower Credit-worthiness in Peer-to-Peer Lending?" (with Raj Iyer, Asim Khwaja, and Kelly Shue), NBER Working Paper No. 15242, August 2009.

"The Perception of Social Security Incentives for Labor Supply and Retirement: The Median Voter Knows More Than You'd Think" (with Jeffrey Liebman).