My research focuses on behavioral and experimental economics, neuro-economics, and micro-health economics.
Currently, much of my research time is being spent exploring the criminal justice system within an economics experimental laboratory setting.
I also do a good deal of work on health related topics such as Anxiety, Trust, Risk, and Autism and their affects on economic decision making.
You can find my C.V. here.
You can find my recent papers here.
Research Projects in Progress
Dissertation Work
My dissertation work, sponsored by a National Science Foundation Dissertation Development grant, focused on understanding the impact of betrayal aversion on economic decision-making and the design of institutions to mitigate the detrimental effects of betrayal aversion. My results provided the first rigorous evidence on the adaptive benefits of betrayal aversion, explaining the evolutionary stable presence of betrayal-averse agents. Additionally, the findings were the first to show that institutions can mitigate betrayal aversion without decreasing rates of reciprocation.
Currently, much of my research time is being spent exploring the criminal justice system within an economics experimental laboratory setting.
I also do a good deal of work on health related topics such as Anxiety, Trust, Risk, and Autism and their affects on economic decision making.
You can find my C.V. here.
You can find my recent papers here.
Research Projects in Progress
- Adam Smith and Justified Punishments (with Vernon Smith, Lucas Rentschler, and Bart Wilson)
- Altruism and Warmglow (with Rebecca Peirce and Lucas Rentschler)
- Autism and Economic Decision Making (with Nina Lauharatanahirun, Pearl Chiu, and Daniel Houser)
- CEOs (with Stanton Hudja and Blaine McCormick)
- Economics of Anxiety (with Brooks King-Casas and Sheryl Ball)
- Economics of Social & Mental Dysfunction (with Brooks King-Casas, Pearl Chiu, and Sheryl Ball)
- Leadership and Risk Preferences (with Brooks King-Casas)
- Lying (with Jim West)
- Neuroeconomics and Social Decision-making (with Brooks King-Casas, Pearl Chiu, and Dongil Chung)
- Probabilistic Punishment (with Amanda Short Charles North, Jason Ralston, and Lucas Rentschler)
- PTSD and Social Decision-making (with Brooks King-Casas)
- Risk and Depression (with Pearl Chiu)
- The Innocence Problem (with Charles North, Jason Ralston, and Lucas Rentschler)
- Trust and Betrayal (with Daniel Houser, Sheryl Ball, and various others on different papers)
Dissertation Work
My dissertation work, sponsored by a National Science Foundation Dissertation Development grant, focused on understanding the impact of betrayal aversion on economic decision-making and the design of institutions to mitigate the detrimental effects of betrayal aversion. My results provided the first rigorous evidence on the adaptive benefits of betrayal aversion, explaining the evolutionary stable presence of betrayal-averse agents. Additionally, the findings were the first to show that institutions can mitigate betrayal aversion without decreasing rates of reciprocation.