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, 93(11-12), pp. 1119-1284, December 2009.

"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.

"Inferring Asset Quality: Determining Borrower Creditworthiness in Peer-to-Peer Lending Markets?" (with Raj Iyer, Asim Khwaja, and Kelly Shue), NBER Working Paper No. 15242, August 2009. Current version: July 2010.

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