Research interests include: Labor, macro, political economy, economics of the family, social policy, law and economics, public economics and behavioral economics.

What's New?

• Research paper: Happiness Inequality in the United States
• Washington Post Op-Ed: A Death Penalty Puzzle
• Research paper: Economic Growth and Happiness: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox
• New York Times article: Report Backing Clemens Chooses Its Facts Carefully
• Research paper: Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google
• My new column for the Wall St Journal Online: Tracking Election '08 (using prediction markets)
• Research paper: Trends in Marital Stability
• New York Times Op-Ed: Divorced from Reality
• New York Times: Summarizes my recent research on the gender happiness gap
• Research paper: The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness
• New York Times Op-Ed: Blow the Whistle on Betting Scandals
• Profile of my research in: American Magazine
• Research paper: Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees
• New York Times: Summarizes my recent research on Marriage and Divorce
• New York Times: 13 young economists who are "the future of economics"
• Research paper analyzing the '06 midterm elections: Party Influence in Congress and the Economy
• Research paper: Aggregate Shocks or Aggregate Information?  Costly Information & Business Cycle Comovement
• Research paper: Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces
• Research paper: Point Shaving: Corruption in NCAA Basketball
• Research paper: Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate
• Research paper: Partisan Impacts on the Economy: Evidence from Prediction Markets and Close Elections
• Research paper: Macroeconomic Derivatives: An Initial Analysis of Market-Based Macro Forecasts, Uncertainty and Risk
• Research paper: Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias
• Op-Ed: Interpreting Voter Turnout in Iraq
• Research paper: Interpreting Prediction Market Prices as Probabilities
• The Economist: Summarizes my recent research on Prediction Markets
• Economists' Voice: Experimental Political Betting Markets and the 2004 Election
• Chicago Tribune: Surprises from the Divorce Revolution
• Op-Ed: Why Australia should retain no-fault divorce laws
• Research Paper: Surveys the evidence to date on Prediction Markets
• KTVU covered a recent seminar on Behavioral Finance and Sports Betting
• Research Paper: Are Divorce Laws responsible for Rising Divorce?
• NY Times write-up of "What do Financial Markets Think of War in Iraq?"
• Op-Ed: Policy Improves by Putting Rhetoric on Trial
• Featured in Forbes: Super Bowl Science (behavioral finance meets sports)
• A new course on the behavioral finance and economics of Sports Betting.
• Are gay cities fabulous cities?  An initial op-ed sparked a press controversy.