Unanticipated Real-Time Wage Shocks and Intraday Productivity: Evidence from a Field Experiment

(with Kathryn Vasilaky)

We implement a five-week-long randomized study with strawberry workers on a large farm in Central California to test both the own and peer impacts of varying workers' piece-rate pay within a crew at different times of the day for different durations.

Urban Sprawl and the Dangers of Public Provision of Fire Suppression

(with Jason Lepore)

Population growth in the wildland urban interface (WUI) has put a greater number of houses at risk due to wildfire while often straining the resources of fire suppression agencies and contributing to a dramatic increase in wildfire suppression expenditures. In light of these facts, this paper analyzes the consequences of the public provision of fire suppression when wildfire risk is endogenously determined through the choice of where to live.

An Experimental Comparison of Standard and All-Loss All-Pay Auctions

(with Jason Lepore and Blake Allison)

We compare bidding behavior in the standard complete information all-pay auction with an all-loss all-pay auction in which subjects bid to avoid a penalty.

Equilibrium Tipping in Games with Strategic Complementarities

(with Jason Lepore)

We state conditions necessary to tip a supermodular game from an inferior equilibrium to the Pareto optimal equilibrium through either precommittment by one or more agents or through government subsidization. The results are applied to macroeconomic models of coordination failure.