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Sendhil Mullainathan

Economics

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Behavioral Economics

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#6

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According to Wikipedia, Sendhil Mullainathan is an American professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the author of Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much . He was hired with tenure by Harvard in 2004 after having spent six years at MIT.

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Sendhil Mullainathan's Published Works

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How Much Should We Trust Differences-in-Differences Estimates? (2001) (9792)
Enjoying the Quiet Life? Corporate Governance and Managerial Preferences (2003) (2711)
Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function (2013) (1891)
Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations (2019) (1748)
Are CEOs Rewarded for Luck? The Ones Without Principals Are (2001) (1617)
Ferreting Out Tunneling: An Application to Indian Business Groups (2000) (1587)
Do People Mean What They Say? Implications for Subjective Survey Data (2001) (1510)
Inherent Trade-Offs in the Fair Determination of Risk Scores (2016) (1327)
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (2013) (1262)
The Market for News (2003) (1164)
Some Consequences of Having Too Little (2012) (1061)
Machine Learning: An Applied Econometric Approach (2017) (1057)
Human Decisions and Machine Predictions (2017) (697)
Behavior and Energy Policy (2010) (687)
What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment (2009) (590)
A Behavioral-Economics View of Poverty (2004) (469)
A Memory Based Model of Bounded Rationality (2000) (433)
Prediction Policy Problems. (2015) (433)
The Shape of Temptation: Implications for the Economic Lives of the Poor (2010) (425)
Obtaining a Driver's License in India: An Experimental Approach to Studying Corruption (2007) (420)
Public Policy and Extended Families : Evidence from Pensions in South Africa (2003) (382)
The Market for Financial Advice: An Audit Study (2012) (379)
Coarse Thinking and Persuasion (2006) (375)
Behavioral Economics and Marketing in Aid of Decision Making among the Poor (2006) (340)
Comparison Friction: Experimental Evidence from Medicare Drug Plans (2011) (332)
Scarcity Frames Value (2015) (299)
Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race? (2012) (293)
Implicit Discrimination (2018) (292)
Is There Discretion in Wage Setting? a Test Using Takeover Legislation (1998) (288)
Thinking, Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago* (2015) (276)
Behavioral Design: A New Approach to Development Policy (2014) (253)
Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations (2011) (248)
Why Don&Apos;T People Insure Late Life Consumption: A Framing Explanation of the Under-Annuitization Puzzle (2008) (242)
Energy Policy with Externalities and Internalities (2012) (238)
Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment (2014) (232)
Getting to the Top of Mind: How Reminders Increase Saving (2010) (232)
Self-Control at Work (2015) (232)
Affirmative Action in Education: Evidence from Engineering College Admissions in India (2008) (229)
The Psychological Lives of the Poor. (2016) (223)
Agents with and Without Principals (2000) (208)
Discrimination in the Age of Algorithms (2018) (200)
Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes (2009) (196)
Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance (2012) (194)
Cómo detectar las burbujas oportunamente (2010) (177)
Making sense of recommendations (2019) (174)
Labor market discrimination in Delhi: Evidence from a field experiment (2009) (168)
A Reduced-Form Approach to Behavioral Public Finance (2012) (152)
Self-Control and the Development of Work Arrangements (2010) (150)
Policy and Choice: Public Finance through the Lens of Behavioral Economics (2011) (144)
Limited Attention and Income Distribution (2008) (138)
Productivity and Selection of Human Capital with Machine Learning (2016) (136)
Site Selection Bias in Program Evaluation (2012) (129)
Health insurance coverage and take-up: lessons from behavioral economics. (2012) (127)
Savings policy and decisionmaking in low-income households (2009) (112)
The Selective Labels Problem: Evaluating Algorithmic Predictions in the Presence of Unobservables (2017) (111)
Public Policy and Extended Families: Evidence from South Africa (2000) (108)
Development economics through the lens of psychology (2004) (107)
Behavioral Economics and Tax Policy (2009) (105)
Individual differences in normal body temperature: longitudinal big data analysis of patient records (2017) (105)
Does Machine Learning Automate Moral Hazard and Error? (2017) (101)
An algorithmic approach to reducing unexplained pain disparities in underserved populations (2021) (100)
Psychology, Behavioral Economics, and Public Policy (2005) (94)
Dissecting Racial Bias in an Algorithm that Guides Health Decisions for 70 Million People (2019) (91)
Predictive modeling of U.S. health care spending in late life (2018) (90)
Money in the Mental Lives of the Poor (2018) (87)
Do Firm Boundaries Matter (2001) (86)
Notes on behavioral economics and labor market policy (2012) (83)
Targeting with Agents (2013) (82)
Integrating explanation and prediction in computational social science (2021) (81)
Behaviorally Informed Financial Services Regulation (2008) (74)
Behavioral Science and Energy Policy (2010) (74)
Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Experimental Evidence in Farming (2012) (73)
External Validity and Partner Selection Bias (2012) (71)
Direct Uncertainty Prediction for Medical Second Opinions (2018) (70)
Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough (2014) (67)
Executive Compensation and Incentives: the Impact of Takeover Legislation (1998) (66)
The Algorithmic Automation Problem: Prediction, Triage, and Human Effort (2019) (63)
BEHAVIORAL PUBLIC CHOICE: THE BEHAVIORAL PARADOX OF GOVERNMENT POLICY (2015) (60)
BEHAVIORAL PUBLIC CHOICE: THE BEHAVIORAL PARADOX OF GOVERNMENT POLICY (2015) (60)
Spotting Bubbles on the: Rise (2010) (58)
Simplicity Creates Inequity: Implications for Fairness, Stereotypes, and Interpretability (2018) (55)
Helping Consumers Know Themselves (2011) (53)
Persuasion in Finance (2005) (50)
Corporate Governance and Executive Pay: Evidence from Takeover Legislation (1999) (50)
Algorithms Need Managers, Too (2016) (50)
Does Less Market Entry Regulation Generate More Entrepreneurs? Evidence from a Regulatory Reform in Peru (2010) (48)
Algorithms as discrimination detectors (2020) (44)
Megastudies improve the impact of applied behavioural science (2021) (44)
The Case for Behaviorally Informed Regulation (2009) (42)
MISPERCEPTION IN CHOOSING MEDICARE DRUG PLANS (2008) (40)
Pyramids (2002) (38)
Framing Lifetime Income (2013) (36)
Psychology and Development Economics (2012) (35)
An Economic Approach to Regulating Algorithms (2020) (34)
The Theory is Predictive, but is it Complete?: An Application to Human Perception of Randomness (2017) (32)
An exercise in self-replication: Replicating Shah, Mullainathan, and Shafir (2012) (2019) (32)
Market Efficiency versus Behavioral Finance (2005) (32)
Do Firm Boundaries Matter? (2001) (27)
An Economic Perspective on Algorithmic Fairness (2020) (27)
A 680,000-person megastudy of nudges to encourage vaccination in pharmacies (2022) (25)
Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive? (2021) (24)
Freeing Up Intelligence (2013) (23)
Scarcity and Cognitive Function around Payday: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis (2020) (23)
Decision making and policy in contexts of poverty (2013) (23)
CEO Compensation, Diversi cation and Incentives (2000) (22)
Response to Comment on “Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function” (2013) (22)
Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines (2018) (22)
A Bayesian Framework for Modeling Human Evaluations (2015) (21)
Externalities, Internalities, and the Targeting of Energy Policy (2012) (21)
Measuring the Completeness of Theories (2019) (21)
Behaviorally Informed Regulation (2012) (20)
Affirmative Action in Education: Evidence From Engineering College Admissions in India. NBER Working Paper No. 13926. (2008) (19)
Ultrasonic Investigation of Molecular Interactions in Binary Mixtures at 303 K (2009) (19)
Behaviorally Informed Home Mortgage Credit Regulation (2008) (19)
Resource bounds and combinations of consensus objects (1993) (19)
Assessing Human Error Against a Benchmark of Perfection (2016) (19)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics Working Paper Series a Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination a Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination (18)
Profitable Investments or Dissipated Cash?: Evidence on the Investment-Cash Flow Relationship from Oil and Gas Lease Bidding (2005) (18)
"Self-Control at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment" (2010) (18)
Magnetic, chemical and radionuclide studies of river sediments and their variation with different physiographic regions of Bharathapuzha river, southwestern India (2015) (17)
A Machine Learning Approach to Low-Value Health Care: Wasted Tests, Missed Heart Attacks and Mis-Predictions (2019) (17)
Diagnosing Physician Error: A Machine Learning Approach to Low-Value Health Care (2019) (16)
Comparison-based Choices (2017) (16)
Allocation of COVID-19 Relief Funding to Disproportionately Black Counties. (2020) (16)
Machine Learning Tests for Effects on Multiple Outcomes (2017) (16)
Contract Farming and Agricultural Productivity in Western Kenya (2014) (15)
The psychology of nutrition messages. (2008) (14)
On the Inequity of Predicting A While Hoping for B (2021) (14)
Psychology and Economics: What it Means for Microfinance (2008) (14)
Better Choices to Reduce Poverty (2006) (14)
Fragile Algorithms and Fallible Decision-Makers: Lessons from the Justice System (2021) (13)
Externalizing the Internality (2011) (12)
corruption in Driving licensing process in Delhi (2008) (12)
Measuring the Completeness of Economic Models (2021) (12)
Political Representation: The impact of electoral debate on public opinions: an experimental investigation of the 2005 New York City mayoral election (2010) (12)
Algorithmic Fairness and the Social Welfare Function (2018) (11)
Who is Tested for Heart Attack and Who Should Be: Predicting Patient Risk and Physician Error (2019) (11)
Augmenting Pre-Analysis Plans with Machine Learning (2019) (11)
Distribution and characterization of minerals in Cauvery River sediments by grain size analysis; a new approach by FTIR study (2005) (11)
The Challenge of Understanding What Users Want: Inconsistent Preferences and Engagement Optimization (2022) (10)
Inviting Husbands in Women-only Solidarity Groups : Evidence from Southern Mexico ∗ (2011) (9)
Public Policy and Extended Families (2012) (9)
The World Bank economic review 17 (1) (2010) (9)
Direct Uncertainty Prediction with Applications to Healthcare (2018) (9)
Assessing Human Error Against a Benchmark of Perfection (2016) (8)
Characterizing the Value of Information in Medical Notes (2020) (8)
Behaviorally Informed Home Mortgage Regulation (2008) (6)
Allocation of COVID-19 Relief Funding to Disproportionately Black Counties. (2020) (6)
Source Dispensers and Home Delivery of Chlorine in Kenya (2008) (6)
Thermo acoustical studies on some electrolytic solvent mixtures at 303 K (2009) (6)
Social Policy: Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluationsa (2017) (6)
BARRIERS TO CONTRACTING IN VILLAGE ECONOMIES: A TEST FOR ENFORCEMENT CONSTRAINTS* (2016) (5)
ADVANCES IN BIG DATA RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS Algorithmic Fairness (2018) (5)
A Memory Based Model of Bounded Rationality a Memory Based Model of Bounded Rationality a Memory Based Model of Bounded Rationality a Memory Based Model of Bounded Rationality (2011) (5)
Algorithmic Behavioral Science: Machine Learning as a Tool for Scientific Discovery (2022) (5)
Discriminative Regularization for Latent Variable Models with Applications to Electrocardiography (2019) (5)
Big data in economics: evolution or revolution? (2017) (5)
Potential effect of natural radionuclides in riverbed sediments: a statistical approach based on granulometric and magnetic mineral differences (2017) (4)
Chapter 4 – Social Policy: Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluationsa (2017) (4)
Social benefit payments and acute injury among low-income mothers (2012) (4)
An Opt-Out Home Mortgage System (2008) (3)
Solving medicine’s data bottleneck: Nightingale Open Science (2022) (3)
Ownership Structure and Economic Outcomes: The Case of Sugarcane Mills in India (2011) (3)
Anandi Mani Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function (2013) (3)
How Much Does Psychology Matter ? A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market (2005) (3)
Dielectric Relaxation Studies of Ethyl Formate with Primary Alcohols using Time Domain Reflectometry (2012) (2)
The Nature of the Beast: What Behavioral Economics is Not (2013) (2)
The Psychology of Poverty Psychology of Scarcity (2)
The Data Station: Combining Data, Compute, and Market Forces (2020) (2)
A Comparison of Patient History- and EKG-based Cardiac Risk Scores. (2019) (2)
Bugbears or legitimate threats?: (social) scientists' criticisms of machine learning? (2014) (2)
12 The impact of electoral debate on public opinions: an experimental investigation of the 2005 New York City mayoral election (2)
An opportunity for self-replication (2018) (2)
Comment on " Development Economics through the Lens of Psychology " by Sendhil Mullainathan (2005) (2)
Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems (2017) (2)
BEHAVIORAL HAZARD IN HEALTH INSURANCE. (2015) (1)
Chapter 16. Decision Making and Policy in Contexts of Poverty (2013) (1)
The Science of Scarcity A behavioral economist ’ s fresh perspectives on poverty by cara feinberg (2015) (1)
The Retirement Security Project Why Don ’ t People Choose Annuities ? A Framing Explanation (2008) (1)
A Note on the Level of Customer Support by State Governments: A Mystery-Shopping Approach (2021) (1)
Acoustical properties of molecular interactions in 1-propanol, 1-butanol and 1-pentanol with tetrahydrofuran in cyclohexanone at various temperatures (2018) (1)
An Economic Approach to Machine Learning in Health Policy (2022) (1)
Ownership Structure and Economic Outcomes: The Case of Sugar Mills in India (Policy Brief) (2011) (1)
Simplicity creates inequity: implications for fairness, stereotypes, and interpretability (invited paper) (2021) (1)
Thinking About Scarcity (2014) (1)
Recommenders Vs. Recommender Systems (2015) (0)
PCV90 PHARMACEUTICAL SPENDING ON CHRONIC DISEASES IN CONSUMER DIRECTED HEALTH PLANS (2009) (0)
HAMILTON THE PROJECT Advancing Opportunity , Prosperity and Growth (2006) (0)
Augmenting Pre-Analysis Plans with Machine Learning Online Appendix (2019) (0)
Automating Automaticity: How the Context of Human Choice Affects the Extent of Algorithmic Bias (2023) (0)
chapter 2 The Case for Behaviorally Informed Regulation (2009) (0)
An algorithmic approach to reducing unexplained pain disparities in underserved populations (2021) (0)
Ultrasonic studies of mixtures of ethyl formate and n-alcohols in carbon tetrachloride (2012) (0)
Media Bias Media Bias (2002) (0)
Study 1 a : Trade-Off Thinking Under Scarcity Method (2015) (0)
Replication data for: Algorithmic Fairness (2019) (0)
Behaviorally Informed Home Mortgage Credit Regulation Draft 4 / 15 / 2008 (2008) (0)
Ultrasonic study of intermolecular interaction in ternary mixture of ethyl formate + 1-propanol + benzene at 303 K (2012) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHAT WE TEACH ABOUT RACE AND GENDER: REPRESENTATION IN IMAGES AND TEXT OF CHILDREN’S BOOKS (2021) (0)
Replication data for: Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes (2009) (0)
BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND CONSUMER REGULATION^ Helping Consumers Know Themselves (2016) (0)
Distraction and Incentives (2011) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES ENERGY POLICY WITH EXTERNALITIES AND INTERNALITIES (2013) (0)
Machine Learning as a Tool for Hypothesis Generation (2023) (0)
Making better predictions: : Interaction (2016) (0)
Contract Farming, Technology Adoption and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Small Scale Farmers in Western Kenya (2020) (0)
NEW APPROACHES TO DISCRIMINATIONt Implicit Discrimination (2008) (0)
Appendix A : Determining Proportion of Area Planted with Sugarcane (2015) (0)
A Behavioral Economics View of Poverty The Harvard made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2005) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DO FINANCIAL CONCERNS MAKE WORKERS LESS PRODUCTIVE ? (2021) (0)
The Mistake Busy People Make (2013) (0)
Outline of " the Long Way Around: the Real Consequences of Corruption in Customs " (2008) (0)
Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with Funding from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics Working Paper Series Pyramids Jan 2 1 2003 I Pyramids (2011) (0)
Machine Learning : An Applied Econometric Approach Online Appendix (2017) (0)
An opportunity for self-replication (2018) (0)
The Case of Sugarcane Mills in India (2016) (0)
Online Appendix Table II : Reasons Why Farmer May Want to Try a New Method (2014) (0)
Molecular Interaction and Physico-Chemical Analysis in Ternary Organic Molecules (Toluene + Chloroform + Cyclohexane) at Various Temperatures (2022) (0)
OP-JLAJ190001 1..62 ++ (2019) (0)
World Bank Economic Review 17 (1), Jan 2003 (2003) (0)
The Curse of Dimensionality and Regularization An early occurrence of the term ‘ Big (0)
Chapter 26 Behaviorally Informed Regulation (2013) (0)
Flexible Repayment Schedules for Dairy Clients in India (2023) (0)
行動ファイナンスでバブルを管理する (The HBR List 一〇のフレッシュ・ソリューション二〇一〇年のパワー・コンセプト) (2010) (0)
Molecular docking evaluation and spectroscopic study of 2-amino-1,4-benzenedisulfonic acid using the IEFPCM model, electronic properties of different solvents (2022) (0)
Are We Over-Testing? Using Machine Learning to Understand Doctors’ Decisions (2018) (0)
Corruption (2012) (0)
Replication data for: Machine Learning: An Applied Econometric Approach (2019) (0)
B . 1 Measuring Simple Attention : Psychomotor Vigilance Task (2017) (0)
Ultrasonic studies of intermolecular interaction in binary mixture of n-methyl formate with 1-propanol at various temperatures (2013) (0)
Authorisation and access control architecture as a framework for data and privacy protection (2018) (0)
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies Working Paper Series Does Corruption Produce Unsafe Drivers ? (2006) (0)
Correlation between Surface Tension on Aqueous Solution of 5-Fluorouracil with Heterocyclic Compound at Various Temperatures (2018) (0)
The Impact of Information Provision on Farmer Decision Making in Indonesia (2022) (0)
Measuring the Stability of EHR- and EKG-based Predictive Models (2018) (0)
A Probabilistic Model of Cardiac Physiology and Electrocardiograms (2018) (0)
Erratum: Self-Control at Work (2022) (0)
When a Co-Pay Gets in the Way of Health (2013) (0)

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Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

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