Papers on the demand for income redistribution and evidence of social effects
"What Determines Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence on Racial Group Loyalty"
(joint with Christina Fong), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1(2), pp. 64-87, April 2009.
"Neighbors as Negatives: Relative Earnings and Well-Being,"
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120(3), pp. 963-1002, August 2005.
"Group Loyalty and the Taste for Redistribution,"
Journal of Political Economy, 109(3), pp. 500-528, June 2001.
"Network Effects and Welfare Cultures"
(joint with Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan),
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115(3), pp. 1019-1055, August 2000.
"Do Race and Fairness Matter in Generosity? Evidence from a Nationally Representative Charity Experiment"
(joint with Christina Fong), NBER Working Paper No. 15064, June 2009.
"Culture, Context, and the Taste for Redistribution" (joint with Monica Singhal), NBER Working Paper No. 14268, August 2008. Current version: September 2009.
Papers on the demand for social insurance
"Insuring Consumption and Happiness through Religious Organizations"
(joint with Rajeev Dehejia and Thomas DeLeire), Journal of Public Economics, 91(1-2), pp. 259-279, February 2007.
"Approaches to Estimating the Health State Dependence of the Utility Function"
(joint with Amy Finkelstein and Matthew Notowidigdo), American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 99(2), pp. 116-121, May 2009.
"The Role of Religious and Social Organizations
in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth" (joint with Rajeev Dehejia, Thomas DeLeire, and Josh Mitchell), forthcoming in An Economic Perspective on the Problems of Disadvantaged Youth, edited by Jonathan Gruber, University of Chicago Press.
"What Good Is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption" (joint with Amy Finkelstein and Matthew Notowidigdo), NBER Working Paper No. 14089, June 2008. Current version: May 2009. Revise-and-resubmit at the Quarterly Journal of Economics.