Publications

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Research topics

Compliance & Disclosure

Julian C. Jamison, Nina Mazar, Iman Sen (2020). Applying behavioral insights to tax compliance: Experimental evidence from Latvia, Journal of Tax Administration, 6 (2).
Robitalle, Nicole, Julian House, and Nina Mazar (in press): Effectiveness of Planning Prompts on Organizations’ Likelihood to File their Overdue Taxes: A Multi-wave Field Experiment, Management Science.
Kristal, Ariella S., Ashley V. Whillans, Max H. Bazerman, Francesca Gino, Lisa L. Shu, Nina Mazar, Dan Ariely (2020): Signing at the beginning versus at the end does not decrease dishonesty , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Mar 31, 117(13), 7103-7107.
Flammer C, Kacperczyk AJ. (2019). Corporate Social Responsibility as a Defense against Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine, Strategic Management Journal, 40(8): 1243–1267.
Clarke, R. N. (2019). Medical Device Marketing and the Ethics of Vaginal Mesh Kit Marketing. In The Innovation and Evolution of Medical Devices (pp. 103-123). Springer, Cham.
Flammer C, Luo J. (2017). Corporate Social Responsibility as an Employee Governance Tool: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment, Strategic Management Journal, 38(2): 163–183.
Flammer C, Kacperczyk AJ. (2016). The Impact of Stakeholder Orientation on Innovation: Evidence from a Natural Experiment, Management Science, 62(7): 1982–2001.
Fisman, Ray and Golden, Miriam. (2017). Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York, New York: Oxford University Press. Print.
Clarkson, Gavin and Van Alstyne, Marshall (2015). The Social Efficiency of Fairness. Working Paper.
Mazar, Nina and Scott A. Hawkins (2015).Choice Architecture in Conflicts of Interest: Defaults as Physical and Psychological Barriers to (Dis)honesty, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 59 (July), 113-117.
Fisman, Raymond and Wang, Yongxiang (2015). The Mortality Cost of Political Connections, The Review of Economic Studies, vol 82(4), pages 1346-1382.
Sharma, Eesha, Nina Mazar, Adam L. Alter, and Dan Ariely (2014). Financial Deprivation Selectively Shifts Moral Standards and Compromises Moral Decisions, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 123(2), 90-100.
Fisman, Ray, Schulz, Florian, and Vig, Vikrant (2014). The Private Returns to Public Office, Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 122(4), pages 806-862.
Fisman, Ray and Wang, Yongxiang (2014). “Corruption in Chinese Privatizations,” NBER Working Papers 20090, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
Loewen, Peter J., Christopher T. Dawes, Nina Mazar, Magnus Johannesson, Philipp Keollinger, and Patrik K.E. Magnusson (2013). The Heritability of Moral Standards for Everyday Dishonesty, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 93(September), 363-366.
Fisman, Ray and Wei, Shang-Jin (2009). The Smuggling of Art and the Art of Smuggling: Uncovering the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects and Antiques, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, vol. 1(3), pages 82-96, July.
Fisman, Ray, Moustakerski, Peter, and Wei, Shang-jin (2008). Offshoring Tariff Evasion: Evidence from Hong Kong as Entrepôt Trader, Review of Economics and Statistics.
Mazar, Nina, On Amir, and Dan Ariely (2008). The Dishonesty of Honest People: A Theory of Self-Concept Maintenance, Journal of Marketing Research, 45 (6), 633-644.
Mazar, Nina, On Amir, and Dan Ariely (2008). More Ways to Cheat – Expanding the Scope of Dishonesty, Rejoinder / Reply to Commentaries about Article above, Journal of Marketing Research, 45 (6), 651-653.
Fisman, Ray and Miguel, Edward (2007). Corruption, Norms, and Legal Enforcement: Evidence from UN Diplomatic Parking Tickets, Journal of Political Economy.
Mazar, Nina and Dan Ariely (2006). Dishonesty in Everyday Life and its Policy Implications, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, 25 (1), 117-126.
Fisman, Ray and Wei, Shang-jin (2004). Tax Rates and Tax Evasion: Evidence from ‘Missing’ Imports in China, Journal of Political Economy.
Fisman, Ray (2001). Estimating the Value of Political Connections, American Economic Review.
Metcalfe, R., Hahn, R. “Estimating the Trade-off Between Efficiency and Equity from Energy Subsidies”, Revise and Resubmit at American Economic Review.

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Mobasseri, S., Srivastava, S. B., & Kray, L. (2019). A Brief Social-Belonging Intervention in the Workplace: Evidence from a Field Experiment. Academy of Management Discoveries, forthcoming.
Coffman, Katherine B., Lucas C. Coffman, and Keith M. Marzilli Ericson (2017), The size of the LGBT population and the magnitude of antigay sentiment are substantially underestimated. Management Science 63.10: 3168-3186.
Mobasseri, S. (2019). Race, place, and crime: how violent crime events affect employment discrimination. American journal of sociology, 125(1), 63-104.
Chan, Curtis K., and Michel Anteby (2016) Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-job Inequality: Women and Men of the Transportation Security Administration. Administrative Science Quarterly 61 (2): 184-216.
Knight, Carly, András Tilcsik, and Michel Anteby 2016) The Geography of Stigma Management: The Relationship Between Sexual Orientation, City Size, and Self-Monitoring. Socius 2: 1-10.
Tilcsik, András, Michel Anteby, and Carly Knight (2015) Concealable Stigma and Occupational Segregation: Toward a Theory of Gay and Lesbian Occupations. Administrative Science Quarterly 60 (3): 446-481
Anteby, Michel, and Caitlin Anderson (2014) The Shifting Landscape of LGBT Organizational Research. Research in Organizational Behavior 34: 3-25
Wilton, L. S., Apfelbaum, E. P., & Good, J. J. (in press). Valuing differences and reinforcing them: Multiculturalism increases race essentialism. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Gaither, S., Apfelbaum, E. P., Birnbaum, H., Babbitt, L., & Sommers, S. R. (2017). Mere membership in racially diverse groups reduces conformity. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Apfelbaum, E. P., Grunberg, R., Halevy, N., & Kang, S. (2016). From ignorance to intolerance: Perceived intentionality of racial discrimination shapes preferences for colorblindness versus multiculturalism. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 69, 86-101.
Apfelbaum, E. P., Stephens, N. M., & Reagans, R. E. (2016). Beyond one-size-fits-all: Tailoring diversity approaches to the representation of social groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111, 547-566.
Pauker, K., Apfelbaum, E. P., & Spitzer, B. (2015). When societal norms and social identity collide: The race talk dilemma for racial minority children. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 887-895.
Galinksy, A. D., Todd, A. R., Homan, A. C., Phillips, K. W., Apfelbaum, E. P., Sasaki, S. J., Richeson, J. A., Olayon, J. B., & Maddux, W. W. (2015). Maximizing the gains and minimizing the pains of diversity: A policy perspective. Perspectives in Psychological Science, 10, 742-748.
Levine, S. S., Apfelbaum, E. P., Bernard, M., Bartelt, V. L., Zajac, E. J., & Stark, D. (2014). Ethnic diversity deflates price bubbles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111, 18524-18529.
Apfelbaum, E. P., Phillips, K. W., & Richeson, J. A. (2014). Rethinking the baseline in diversity research: Should we be explaining the effects of homogeneity? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9, 235-244.
Apfelbaum, E. P., & Sommers, S. R. (2013). Law and diversity: The legal-behavioral science divide in how to define, assess, and counteract bias. In Q. Robinson (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Diversity and Work. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Phillips, K. W., & Apfelbaum, E. P. (2013). Delusions of homogeneity? Reinterpreting the effects of group diversity. In B. Mannix and M. Neale (Eds.), The Handbook of Research on Managing Groups and Teams (pp.185-208). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
Shteynberg, G., & Apfelbaum, E. P. (2013). The power of shared ingroup attention: Simultaneous observation with similar others facilitates social learning. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4, 738-744.
Apfelbaum, E. P., Norton, M. I., & Sommers, S. R. (2012). Racial colorblindness: Emergence, practice, and implications. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21, 205-209.
Apfelbaum, E. P., Pauker, K., Sommers, S. R., & Ambady, N. (2010). In blind pursuit of racial equality? Psychological Science, 21, 1587-1592.

Ethics in the Digital Economy

Impact Investing

Social Impact & Welfare

Gauri, Varun, Julian Jamison, Nina Mazar, and Owen Ozier (in press): Motivating Bureaucrats through Social Recognition: External Validity – a Tale of Two States, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
DeCelles, K. A., & Anteby, M. (2020). Compassion in the Clink: When and How Human Services Workers Overcome Barriers to Care. Organization Science.
Thomas, H., & Hedrick-Wong, Y. (2019). Inclusive Growth: The Global Challenges of Social Inequality and Financial Inclusion. Emerald Group Publishing.
Asad, Asad L, Michel Anteby, and Filiz Garip (2014) Who donates their bodies to science? The combined role of gender and migration status among California whole-body donors. Social Science and Medicine 106: 53-58.
Anteby, Michel, Filiz Garip, Scot Lozanoff, and Paul V Martorana (2012) Individuals’ Decision to Co-Donate or Donate Alone: An Archival Study of Married Whole Body Donors in Hawaii. PLOS ONE 7 (8): e42673.
Anteby, Michel (2010) Markets, Morals, and Practices of Trade: Jurisdictional Disputes in the U.S. Commerce in Cadavers. Administrative Science Quarterly 55 (4): 606-638
Anteby, Michel (2009) A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name? Economic Sociology: The European Electronic Newsletter 11 (1): 3–7
Anteby, Michel, and Mikell Hyman 2008) Entrepreneurial Ventures and Whole-Body Donations: A Regional Perspective from the United States. Social Science & Medicine 66 (4): 963–969.
Leipnitz, Sigrun, Martha de Vries, Michel Clement, and Nina Mazar (2018). Providing health checks as incentives to retain blood donors – evidence form two field experiments, International Journal of Research in Marketing, 35(4), 628-640.
Mazar, Nina, Daniel Mochon, and Dan Ariely (2018). If you are going to pay within the next 24 hours, press 1: Automatic planning prompt reduces credit card delinquency, Journal of Consumer Psychology, 28(3), 466-476. Harvard Business Review version:“How behavioral economics could help reduce credit card delinquency” (July 26, 2018).
Bryan, Christopher, Nina Mazar, Julian Jamison et al. (2017). Overcoming Behavioral Obstacles to Escaping Poverty, Behavioral Science and Policy, 5, 81-93.
Duhaime, E. P., & Apfelbaum, E. P. (2017). Can information decrease political polarization? Evidence from the U.S. Taxpayer Receipt. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Müller, Sarah, Nina Mazar, and Anne Fries (2016). The Cause Matters! How Cause Marketing Campaigns Can Increase the Demand for Conventional over Green Products, Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 1(4), 540-554.
Elfenbein, Daniel, Fisman, Ray, and McManus, Brian. (2012). Charity as a substitute for reputation: Evidence from an online marketplace, Review of Economic Studies.