Research
Innovation and organizational economics: technology adoption and commercialization, digitization and AI, and the labor markets and management practices that shape them.
- Gender Pay Gaps in the Social Sciences (with Ayelet Gneezy, Uri Gneezy, Joshua Graff Zivin, Gaurav Khanna, and Marta Serra-Garcia). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024.
- Complementing Business Training with Access to Finance: Evidence from SMEs in Kenya (with Anik Ashraf). Journal of Development Economics, 2025.
- Temperature, Creativity, and Collaboration: Evidence from Bangladesh (with Teevrat Garg & Maulik Jagnani). Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025.
- The Role of Low-Cost Robots in the Future of Spaceflight (with Paul Glick, Michael Davidson, Bob Balaram, and Michael Tolley). Science Robotics, 2024.
- Salary Transparency, Gender Pay Inequality: Evidence from Canadian Universities (with Laurina Zhang). Strategic Management Journal, 2023.
- A Time to Make Laws and a Time to Fundraise? On the Relation between Salaries and Time Use for State Politicians (with Mitchell Hoffman, Danielle Li, and Karam Kang). Canadian Journal of Economics, 2023.
- Conspicuous Monitoring and Remote Work (with Nathaniel Jensen, Eddy Chebelyon, Ronan Le Bras & Carla Gomes). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021.
- The Impact of Job Training on Temporary Worker Performance: Evidence from a Field Experiment. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2020. (with Dmitry Laptev, Michael Shor and Joshua Graff Zivin)
- Fairness Considerations in Joint Venture Formation. (with Tanjim Hossain and Aloysius Siow). Experimental Economics, 2019.
- Trade-offs in motivating volunteer effort: Experimental evidence on voluntary contributions to science (with Laurina Zhang). PLOS ONE, 2019.
- Increasing STEM undergraduate participation in innovative activities: Field experimental evidence (with Joshua Graff Zivin). PLOS ONE, 2019.
- Who Does (not) Benefit from Entrepreneurship Programs? (with Laurina Zhang). Strategic Management Journal, 2018.
- Team Production in International Labor Markets: Experimental Evidence from the Field. (with Laurina Zhang). Management Science, 2018.
- Does Standardized Information in Online Markets Disproportionately Benefit Job Applicants from Less Developed Countries? (with Laurina Zhang). Journal of Development Economics, 2017.
- Female Entrepreneurs, Digital Tools, and Work-Life Balance: Evidence from Small Businesses around the World (with Laurina Zhang). Revise and Resubmit at Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.
- Managing Remote Team Coordination: Experimental Evidence on Flexible Scheduling (with Tanjim Hossain). Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
- Managing Algorithm Development among Third Party Contractors (with Daniel Ershov). Revise and Resubmit at Marketing Science.
- The Effects of Digital Surveillance and Managerial Clarity on Performance (with Namrata Kala). NBER Working Paper, 2025.
- Data‐Driven Learning and Firm Performance: Experimental Evidence from SMEs in Kenya (with Anik Ashraf).
- Mobile Generation Technology Diffusion and Implications (with Caroline Fry and Jane Wu).
- Household and student survey-based evidence on girls secondary education in Afghanistan. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 2023. (with Sonali Chowdhury, Katrina Kosec, and Nitya Rao).
- The Effects of Prize Structure on Innovative Performance (with Joshua Graff Zivin). American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2021.
- The Impact of Entrepreneurship Programs on Minorities (with Laurina Zhang). In American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2017.
- Digitization and the Contract Labor Market: A Research Agenda (with Ajay Agrawal, John Horton and Nicola Lacetera). In Goldfarb, A., Greenstein, S. & Tucker, C (Eds) Economics of Digitization: An Agenda. National Bureau of Economic Research.
- Invasive Pest Monitoring in California: The eDNA Metabarcoding Opportunity, 2025. Supported by the California CARES program.
- RCT Ideas For Science in Low-And-Middle-Income Countries. J-PAL Science for Progress Research Paper, 2025.
- Developing Policy for Data Protection and Privacy in the Context of Domestic Social Robots (with Iman Adibnazari and Michael Tolley), 2024. Draft available upon request.
- Diving deep into diversity: The importance of biodiversity assessment and monitoring for deepseabed mining impacts Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, 2015.
- Towards a Taxonomy of Nudging Strategies (with Julian House and Dilip Soman), 2013.