Conference Papers

PDFs of conference papers are forthcoming and will be available to download.

Incentives, Commitments and Habit Formation in Exercise: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Workers at a Fortune-500 Company, by: Heather Royer, UC Santa Barbara and NBER, visiting RAND; Mark Stehr, Drexel University; Justin Sydnor, University of Wisconsin School of Business.

Managing Self-Confidence: Theory and Experimental Evidence, authored April 28, 2011 by: Markus M. Mobius, Iowa State Univeristy and NBER; Muriel Nierderle, Stanford University and NBER; Paul Neihaus, UC San Diego; Tanya S. Rosenblat, Iowa State University.

A Model of Non-Belief in the Law of Large Numbers (Draft for distribution in February 11 talks, missing proofs), authored February 8, 2011 by: Daniel J. Benjamin, Cornell University; Matthew Rabin, UC Berkeley; Collin Raymond, University of Michigan.

No Margin, No mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Pro-Social Tasks, authored May 22, 2011 by: Nava Ashraf, HBS and NBER; Oriana Bandiera, LSE; Kelsey Jack, MIT and Tufts.

A Temporal Discrimination Effect: An Audit Study in Academia (abstract), authored by: Katherine L. Milkman, University of Pennsylvania; Modupe Akinola, Columbia University; Dolly Chugh, New York University.