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Gary Charness's Degrees

PhD Economics University of California, San Diego
Masters Economics University of California, San Diego
Bachelors Economics University of California, San Diego

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According to Wikipedia, Gary Charness is Professor of Economics and the Director of the Experimental and Behavioral Economics Laboratory in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Charness is an economist and social scientist, specializing in experimental and behavioral work; he is currently ranked 3rd in the world by RePEc in the field of experimental economics and has published nearly 80 academic articles. Charness is a contributor to several areas of economic research, including social preferences, identity and group membership, communication and beliefs, behavioral interventions, group decision-making, social networks, gender, and individual decision-making. A centerpiece of his research has been to effect beneficial social outcomes in difficult economic environments. Charness's work has been discussed and published in The New York Times and Science, as well as in other media. Charness is married and has three children.

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Gary Charness's Published Works

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Published Works

UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL PREFERENCES WITH SIMPLE TESTS (2001) (2498)
Understanding Social Preference with Simple Tests (2001) (1596)
Promises and Partnership (2006) (1396)
Strong Evidence for Gender Differences in Risk Taking (2012) (1229)
Experimental methods: Between-subject and within-subject design (2012) (903)
The strategy versus the direct-response method: a first survey of experimental comparisons (2011) (673)
Individual Behavior and Group Membership (2006) (672)
Incentives to Exercise (2008) (654)
Experimental methods: Eliciting risk preferences (2013) (632)
What's in a Name? Anonymity and Social Distance in Dictator and Ultimatum Games (2003) (577)
Attribution and Reciprocity in an Experimental Labor Market (2002) (482)
The Dark Side of Competition for Status (2014) (385)
Lab Labor: What Can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab? (2010) (351)
Groups Make Better Self-Interested Decisions (2012) (349)
Hot vs. Cold: Sequential Responses and Preference Stability in Experimental Games (1998) (339)
Portfolio Choice and Risk Attitudes: An Experiment (2003) (316)
Self-Serving Cheap Talk: A Test Of Aumann's Conjecture (2000) (268)
When Optimal Choices Feel Wrong: A Laboratory Study of Bayesian Updating, Complexity, and Affect (2004) (262)
Relative Payoffs and Happiness: An Experimental Study (2001) (239)
Does Pay Inequality Affect Worker Effort? Experimental Evidence (2006) (237)
Responsibility and Effort in an Experimental Labor Market (2000) (233)
Bare promises: An experiment (2010) (222)
How Robust is Laboratory Gift Exchange? (2001) (208)
The Origin of the Winner's Curse: A Laboratory Study (2007) (202)
Truth or Consequences: An Experiment (2002) (200)
Experimental methods: Pay one or pay all (2016) (199)
Do Labour Market Conditions Affect Gift Exchange? Some Experimental Evidence (2003) (199)
Social preferences: Some simple tests and a new model (2000) (190)
Individual and group decision making under risk: An experimental study of Bayesian updating and violations of first-order stochastic dominance (2006) (175)
The Role of Responsibility in Strategic Risk-Taking (2007) (175)
Altruism, Equity, and Reciprocity in a Gift Exchange Experiment: An Encompassing Approach (1999) (172)
Social distance and reciprocity: An Internet experiment (2007) (170)
On the Conjunction Fallacy in Probability Judgment: New Experimental Evidence (2008) (158)
Intention and Stochastic Outcomes: An Experimental Study (2005) (150)
Deception: The role of guilt (2013) (133)
An Investment Game with Third-Party Intervention (2007) (127)
The hidden advantage of delegation: pareto-improvements in a gift-exchange game (2012) (124)
Experimental methods: Extra-laboratory experiments-extending the reach of experimental economics (2013) (119)
Experimental Games on Networks: Underpinnings of Behavior and Equilibrium Selection (2014) (117)
Gender differences in cooperation with group membership (2011) (114)
Letting Down the Team? Social Effects of Team Incentives (2012) (109)
Comprehension and Risk Elicitation in the Field: Evidence from Rural Senegal (2012) (107)
Expressed Preferences and Behavior in Experimental Games (2004) (107)
Experimental methods: When and why contextual instructions are important (2017) (105)
Ambiguity attitudes and social interactions: An experimental investigation (2013) (100)
Informal Risk Sharing in an Infinite-Horizon Experiment (2006) (100)
Bargaining and Network Structure: An Experiment (2005) (97)
Trust and Trustworthiness Reputations in an Investment Game (2010) (97)
Attribution and reciprocity in a simulated labor market: An experimental investigation (1996) (94)
Let's Talk: How Communication Affects Contract Design (2012) (87)
Three Risk-elicitation Methods in the Field: Evidence from Rural Senegal (2016) (87)
Field and online experiments on self-control (2011) (86)
Continuous time and communication in a public-goods experiment (2014) (85)
Strong Evidence for Gender Differences in Investment (2007) (83)
Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive: Experimental Evidence (2010) (78)
Identities, selection, and contributions in a public-goods game (2014) (76)
Self-confidence and strategic behavior (2013) (72)
Endogenous Transfers in the Prisoner's Dilemma Game: An Experimental Test of Cooperation and Coordination (2006) (70)
Starting small toward voluntary formation of efficient large groups in public goods provision (2014) (70)
Inducing Social Norms in Laboratory Allocation Choices (2015) (69)
Group Play in Games and the Role of Consent in Network Formation (2006) (67)
When are Layoffs Acceptable? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment (2000) (63)
Experimental methods: Measuring effort in economics experiments (2018) (63)
Confirmation bias with motivated beliefs (2017) (62)
Deterrence, expected cost, uncertainty and voting: Experimental evidence (2012) (58)
What makes cheap talk effective? Experimental evidence (2004) (57)
From the lab to the real world (2015) (56)
The Winner's Curse and public information in common-value auctions (by John H. Kagel and Dan Levin) (2021) (54)
Exercise Improves Academic Performance (2017) (53)
Letting Down the Team? Evidence of Social Effects of Team Incentives (2011) (51)
Competition and the Ratchet Effect (2008) (51)
Does Pay Inequality Affect Worker Effort? Experimental Evidence (2007) (48)
The effect of charitable giving on workers’ performance. Experimental evidence (2016) (47)
Do measures of risk attitude in the laboratory predict behavior under risk in and outside of the laboratory? (2019) (46)
Creativity and Incentives (2019) (44)
Endogenous Group Formation and Public Goods Provision: Exclusion, Exit, Mergers, and Redemption (2006) (42)
Cooperation and Competition in Intergenerational Experiments in the Field and the Laboratory (2009) (41)
Social Identity, Group Behavior, and Teams (2020) (39)
Social surplus determines cooperation rates in the one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma (2016) (39)
Hidden information, bargaining power, and efficiency: an experiment (2011) (39)
Trust and Reciprocity (2014) (37)
Cheating, incentives, and money manipulation (2018) (36)
Social comparisons in wage delegation: experimental evidence (2016) (36)
Endogenous rewards promote cooperation (2018) (35)
Optimal contracts, adverse selection and social preferences: An experiment (2000) (35)
Changes in the Employment Contract? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment (1999) (35)
Social Distance and Reciprocity: The Internet vs. The Laboratory (2003) (34)
How do People Choose Between Biased Information Sources? Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment (2021) (32)
Broken Promises: An Experiment (2007) (31)
Changes in the employment contract (2002) (31)
Charity in the Laboratory: Matching, Competition, and Group Identity (2019) (29)
Forward induction and entry deterrence: an experiment (2005) (28)
Do Co-Workers' Wages Matter? Theory and Evidence on Wage Secrecy, Wage Compression and Effort (2004) (28)
A Test of the Modigliani-Miller Invariance Theorem and Arbitrage in Experimental Asset Markets (2018) (27)
Self-Serving Biases: Evidence from a Simulated Labor Relationship (1999) (26)
Complexity in risk elicitation may affect the conclusions: A demonstration using gender differences (2017) (24)
Optimal Contracts with Team Production and Hidden Information: An Experiment (2003) (24)
Cooperation, Competition, and Risk Attitudes: An Intergenerational Field and Laboratory Experiment (2007) (24)
An Experiment on Nash Implementation (2000) (23)
A restaurant field experiment in charitable contributions (2013) (23)
Merit pay and wage compression with productivity differences and uncertainty (2015) (22)
The Road to Hell: An Experimental Study of Intentions (2003) (21)
Bargaining Efficiency and Screening: An Experimental Investigation (1998) (20)
Creativity and Financial Incentives (2014) (20)
Reputation, Honesty, and Efficiency with Insider Information: an Experiment (2000) (20)
Habit Formation and Naivet e in Gym Attendance: Evidence from a Field Experiment (2010) (19)
When is Employee Retaliation Acceptable at Work? Evidence from Quasi-Experiments (2004) (19)
Shaking Things Up: On the Stability of Risk and Time Preferences (2020) (19)
Promises in contract design (2013) (18)
Self-Confidence and Strategic Deterrence (2011) (18)
Public Goods Provision with Voting for Exclusion, Exit, and Mergers: An Experiment (2012) (17)
Individual Creativity, Ex-ante Goals and Financial Incentives (2013) (17)
Special Issue: Experimental Economics in Practice: Minimum Advertised-Price Policy Rules and Retailer Behavior: An Experiment by Hewlett-Packard (2001) (17)
Opportunistic conformism (2019) (17)
Social and Moral Norms in the Laboratory (2012) (17)
Three Field Experiments on Procrastination and Willpower (2008) (16)
Ambiguity attitudes: An experimental investigation (2012) (16)
Experimental methods: Eliciting beliefs (2021) (15)
Anticipated Discrimination, Choices, and Performance: Experimental Evidence (2020) (14)
Retribution in a cheap-talk experiment (1999) (14)
Theory of mind among disadvantaged children: Evidence from a field experiment (2019) (13)
What is considered deception in experimental economics? (2021) (13)
FAIRNESS AND RETALIATION : THE ECONOMICS OF RECIPROCITY Ernst Fehr Simon Gächter (2000) (13)
Bargaining on networks: An experiment (2000) (13)
Some Simple Tests of Social Preferences (2000) (12)
Exit, Exclusion, and Mergers: Endogenous Group Formation and Pbulic Goods Provision (2006) (12)
An Experimental Test of Risk-Sharing Arrangements (2004) (11)
From the lab to the real world : Laboratory experiments provide precise quantitative predictions of peer effects in the field (2015) (10)
Laboratory experiments: Challenges and promise: A review of “Theory and Experiment: What are the Questions?” by Vernon Smith (2010) (10)
Pre-Play Communication and Credibility: A Test of Aumann's Conjecture (1998) (10)
Field and Online Experiments on Procrastination and Willpower (2010) (9)
Self-confidence and strategic behavior (2017) (9)
Do market conditions affect preferences? Evidence from experimental markets with excess supply and excess demand (2000) (8)
Forward induction and the excess capacity puzzle: An experimental investigation (2003) (8)
Cheap Talk, Information, and Coordination - Experimental Evidence (2001) (8)
Competition, Hidden Information and Efficiency: An Experiment (2006) (8)
Equilibrium Selection in Experimental Games on Networks (2012) (8)
Efficiency , Team building , and Identity in a Public-goods Game (2011) (8)
Social and Moral Norms in Allocation Choices in the Laboratory (2013) (7)
Law and economics in the laboratory (2018) (7)
Endogenous group formation and efficiency: an experimental study (2010) (6)
Communication in Bargaining Experiments (2012) (6)
EVIDENCE FROM A QUASI-EXPERIMENT (2016) (6)
Complexity in risk elicitation may affect the conclusions: A demonstration using gender differences (2018) (5)
Behavioural economics: Preserving rank as a social norm (2017) (5)
A Generalized Winner ' s Curse : An Experimental Investigation of Complexity and Adverse Selection (2014) (5)
Cooperation and Competition in Intergenerational Experiments in (2008) (5)
Efficiency, Team building, and Spillover in a Public-goods Game (2012) (5)
Competition and Adverse Selection (2007) (5)
An experimental study of estimation and bidding in common-value auctions with public information (2019) (5)
Creativity and Corporate Culture (2020) (5)
Do Market Conditions Affect Gift Exchange? Evidence from Experimental Markets (2003) (4)
Uncertainty in the Theory of Deterrence : Experimental Evidence (2009) (4)
How communication affects contract design: An experimental study of formal and informal contracting (2012) (4)
They are watching you: Social facilitation in institutions (2003) (4)
Job security and long-term investment: An experimental analysis (2017) (4)
DO L ABOUR M ARKET CONDITIONS AFFECT G IFT EXCHANGE? SOME EXPERIMENTAL E VIDENCE* (2004) (4)
Can targeted messages reduce COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy? A randomized trial (2022) (3)
The Hammer and the Screwdriver (2015) (3)
Bayesian Updating vs. Reinforcement and Affect: A Laboratory Study (2003) (3)
NORC at the University of Chicago The University of Chicago Competition and the Ratchet Effect Author ( s ) : (2011) (3)
Creativity and Financial Incentives September 12 , 2014 (2014) (3)
Silence is golden: team problem solving and communication costs (2019) (3)
Uncertainty and Deterrence: Experimental Evidence (2009) (3)
Ambiguity attitudes and social interactions: An experimental investigation (2013) (3)
Silence is Golden: Communication Costs and Team Problem Solving (2015) (3)
Self-Serving Conformism (2016) (2)
Equilibrium Selection in Experimental Games on Networks - eScholarship (2012) (2)
Responsibility-allevation and effort provision in a gift-exchange experiment (1998) (2)
Choosing and not choosing with and without communication: Experimental results on contract design and selection (2016) (2)
Wage Policies, Incentive Schemes, and Motivation (2020) (2)
Future Research in the Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (2010) (2)
Strong Evidence for Gender Differences in Investment - eScholarship (2007) (1)
Cheating and money manipulation (2017) (1)
The power of delegation: Allowing workers to choose their wage (2010) (1)
Risk Management Research Report - Spring 2010 (2009) (1)
0 Self-confidence and strategic deterrence (2011) (1)
Survey Evidence on When it is Acceptable (2004) (1)
BARGAINING EFFICIENCY AND SCREENING: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION1* (2000) (1)
Emigration Intentions and Risk Aversion: Causal Evidence from Albania (2022) (1)
An Experimental Study on the Effects of Communication, Credibility, and Clustering in Network Games (2019) (1)
Creativity and ambiguity tolerance (2022) (1)
Biases Over Biased Information Structures : Conrmation , Contradiction and Certainty Seeking Behavior in the Laboratory (2018) (1)
Promises and Partnership Author ( s ) : (2008) (1)
Reputation and Honesty in a Market for Information (1998) (1)
a Anonymity and Social Distance in Dictator and Ultimatum Games (2001) (1)
Creativity, Ex-ante Goals and Financial Incentives (2013) (0)
Anticipated Discrimination , Choices , and Performance : Experimental Evidence * February 17 , 2020 (2020) (0)
American Economic Association Individual Behavior and Group Membership (2008) (0)
Introduction to the John Forbes Nash Jr. Memorial Special Issue (2017) (0)
No . 4517 Self-Confidence and Strategic Behavior (2013) (0)
An Experimental Study of Intentions (2003) (0)
Introducing 20 top papers and their reviewers (2021) (0)
Prosocial motivation for vaccination (2022) (0)
The Effect of Communication on Contract Type and Performance (2012) (0)
Preliminary An Experimental Test of Risk-Sharing Arrangements (2004) (0)
BE and EE: Cousins but not twins (2017) (0)
A Stranger in a Strange Land: Promises and Identity (2022) (0)
Which social categories matter to people: An experiment (2022) (0)
Improving Healthy Eating in Children: Experimental Evidence (2021) (0)
1 WHEN ARE LAYOFFS ACCEPTABLE ? EVIDENCE FROM A QUASI-EXPERIMENT by (0)
Creativity and Financial Incentives October 29 , 2015 (2015) (0)
UC Santa Barbara Departmental Working Papers (2004) (0)
Fortune and Identity (2022) (0)
Social Norms and Moral Norms Workshop Social Norms and Moral Norms Workshop Welcome Address (2015) (0)
Hidden Information, Competition and Efficiency (2007) (0)
A Group-based Wellness Intervention in the Laboratory (2012) (0)
Suggested further reading . An annotated list accompanying “ Groups make Better Self-interested Decisions ” by (2012) (0)
Contracts as communication (2008) (0)
The Doors of Perception: Theory and Evidence of Frame-Dependent Rationalizability (2023) (0)
Should firms allow workers to choose their own wage (2016) (0)
American Economic Association Participation (2012) (0)
Territoriality and Gender in the Laboratory (2008) (0)
www.econstor.eu Self-Confidence and Strategic Behavior (2013) (0)
BRANDTS AND CHARNESS Truth or Consequences Figure 1 Second Stage Game B (2008) (0)
The Dark Side of Competition for Status (preprint) (2014) (0)
The Art of Experimental Economics (2021) (0)
Deterrence, expected cost, uncertainty and voting: Experimental evidence (2011) (0)
Cheating, incentives, and money manipulation (2018) (0)
INTENTION AND S TOCHASTIC O UTCOMES: AN EXPERIMENTAL S TUDY (2007) (0)
The Doors of Perception (2018) (0)
Cheap Talk, Information, and Coordination -Experimental Evidence - eScholarship (2001) (0)
Learning Your Own Risk Preferences (2022) (0)
Anticipated Discrimination , Choices , and Performance : Experimental evidence * December 25 , 2017 (2018) (0)
Erratum to "Changes in the employment contact? Evidence from a quasi-experiment" [Econ. Behav. Org. 47 (2002) 391-405] (2004) (0)
In-group identification and motivation crowding (2020) (0)
S ELF - SERVING B IASES : E VIDENCE FROM A S IMULATED L ABOUR R ELATIONSHIP (2002) (0)
Data for: Promises in contract design (2016) (0)
Individual Behavior and Group Membership 1 First Draft : December 24 , 2004 This Draft : March 4 , 2005 (2005) (0)
Competing now and then: The effects of delay on competitiveness across genger (2022) (0)
Creativity and Financial Incentives November 11 , 2014 (2014) (0)
Let ’ s Talk : How Communication Affects Contract Design Jordi (2012) (0)
Social comparisons in wage delegation: experimental evidence (2015) (0)
Mechanisms for Reducing Criminal Recidivism: Experimental Evidence (2011) (0)

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