The Gender Concealment Gap
Christine Exley, Raymond Fisman, Judd B. Kessler, Louis-Pierre Lepage, Xiaomeng Li, Corinne Low, Xiaoyue Shan, Mattie Toma, and Basit Zafar. 2025. (Working Paper)
Extreme Justifications Fuel Polarization
Christiane Buschinger, Markus Eyting, Florian Hett, and Judd B. Kessler. 2025. Revise and Resubmit, Economic Journal. (Working Paper)
Please Take a Minute: How Prosocial Preferences Change with Deliberation
Judd B. Kessler, Hannu Kivimaki, Ashley Litwin, and Muriel Niederle. 2024. Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. (Working Paper)
The Gender Minority Gaps in Confidence and Self-Evaluation
Billur Aksoy, Christine Exley, and Judd B. Kessler. 2024. (Working Paper)
A Model of Information Nudges
Lucas C. Coffman, Clayton R. Featherstone, and Judd B. Kessler. 2024. (Working Paper)
Lowering the Playing Field: Discrimination through Sequential Spillover Effects
Judd B. Kessler, Corinne Low, and Xiaoyue Shan. 2023. Conditionally Accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics. (Working Paper)
Increasing Organ Donor Registration as a Means to Increase Transplantation: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations
Judd B. Kessler and Alvin E. Roth. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 17 (2), 2025: 60–83.
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Information Frictions and Skill Signaling in the Youth Labor Market
Judd B. Kessler and Sara B. Heller. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 16 (4), 2024: 1–33.
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Equity Concerns are Narrowly Framed
Christine Exley and Judd B. Kessler. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 16 (2), 2024: 147–179.
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Motivated Errors
Christine Exley and Judd B. Kessler. American Economic Review 114 (4), 2024: 961–987.
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Fairness Has Less Impact When Agents Are Less Informed
Jennie Huang, Judd B. Kessler, and Muriel Niederle. Experimental Economics 27 (1), 2024: 155–174.
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Liquidity For Teachers: Evidence from Teach For America and LinkedIn
Lucas C. Coffman, John J. Conlon, Clayton R. Featherstone, Judd B. Kessler, and Jessica Mixon. Economics of Education Review 97 (10246), 2023: 1–11.
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Information Avoidance and Image Concerns
Christine Exley and Judd B. Kessler. Economic Journal 133 (656), 2023: 3153–3168.
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Is Attention Produced Optimally? Theory and Evidence from Experiments with Bandwidth Enhancements
Erin T. Bronchetti, Judd B. Kessler, Ellen B. Magenheim, Dmitry Taubinsky, and Eric Zwick. Econometrica 91 (2), 2023: 669–707.
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* Winner of 2024 Exeter Prize
Nudging Timely Wage Reporting: Field Experimental Evidence from the United States Supplemental Security Income Program
Jeffrey Hemmeter, Judd B. Kessler, Robert D. Metcalfe, Robert Weathers, and C. Yiwei Zhang. Management Science 69 (3), 2023: 1341–1353.
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The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion
Christine Exley and Judd B. Kessler. Quarterly Journal of Economics 137 (3), 2022: 1345–1381.
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The Effects of Youth Employment on Crime: Evidence from New York City Lotteries
Judd B. Kessler, Sarah Tahamont, Alexander Gelber, and Adam Isen. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 41 (3), 2022: 710–730.
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Soft Skills in the Youth Labor Market
Judd B. Kessler and Sara B. Heller. American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 112 (5), 2022: 121–125.
Can Market Participants Report their Preferences Accurately (Enough)?
Eric Budish and Judd B. Kessler. Management Science 68 (2), 2022: 1107–1130.
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Short-Term Fluctuations in Incidental Happiness and Economic Decision-Making: Experimental Evidence From a Sports Bar
Judd B. Kessler, Andrew McClellan, James Nesbit, and Andrew Schotter. Experimental Economics 25 (1), 2022: 141–169.
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Social Policy Instruments and the Compliance Environment
Judd B. Kessler, Corinne Low, and Monica Singhal. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 192, 2021: 248–267.
Forgoing Earned Incentives to Signal Pure Motives
Edward H. Chang, Erika L. Kirgios, Emma E. Levine, Katherine L. Milkman, and Judd B. Kessler. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (29), 2020: 16891–16897.
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A Randomized Trial of Theory-Informed Appeals for Organ Donor Registration Using Internet Advertisements
Peter P. Reese, Karen Glanz, Ankur Shah, Adam Mussell, Simona Levsky, Lester Shuda, Justine Shults, and Judd B. Kessler. Kidney International Reports 5 (12), 2020: 2238–2245.
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Incentivized Resume Rating: Eliciting Employer Preferences without Deception
Judd B. Kessler, Corinne Low, and Colin D. Sullivan. American Economic Review 109 (11), 2019: 3713–3744.
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Liquidity Affects Job Choice: Evidence from Teach For America
Lucas C. Coffman, John J. Conlon, Clayton R. Featherstone, and Judd B. Kessler. Quarterly Journal of Economics 134 (4), 2019: 2203–2236.
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Getting the Rich and Powerful to Give
Judd B. Kessler, Katherine L. Milkman, and C. Yiwei Zhang. Management Science 65 (9), 2019: 4049–4062.
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The Welfare Effects of Nudges: A Case Study of Energy Use Social Comparisons
Hunt Allcott and Judd B. Kessler. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 11 (1), 2019: 236–276.
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Field Study of Charitable Giving Reveals That Reciprocity Decays Over Time
Amanda Chuan, Judd B. Kessler, and Katherine L. Milkman. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (8), 2018: 1766–1771.
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Identity in Charitable Giving
Judd B. Kessler and Katherine L. Milkman. Management Science 64 (2), 2018: 845–859.
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Partners and Alerts in Medication Adherence: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Judd B. Kessler, Andrea B. Troxel, David A. Asch, Shivan J. Mehta, Noora Marcus, Raymond Lim, Jingsan Zhu, William Shrank, Troyen Brennan, and Kevin G. Volpp. Journal of General Internal Medicine 33 (9), 2018: 1536–1542.
Announcements of Support and Public Good Provision
Judd B. Kessler. American Economic Review 107 (12), 2017: 3760–3787.
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Course Match: A Large-Scale Implementation of Approximate Competitive Equilibrium from Equal Incomes for Combinatorial Allocation
Eric Budish, Gerard P. Cachon, Judd B. Kessler, and Abraham Othman. Operations Research 65 (2), 2017: 314–336.
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Can Social Information Affect What Job You Choose and Keep?
Lucas C. Coffman, Clayton R. Featherstone, and Judd B. Kessler. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 9 (1), 2017: 96–117.
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A Behavioral Blueprint for Improving Health Care Policy
George Loewenstein, David Hagmann, Janet Schwartz, Keith Ericson, Judd B. Kessler, Saurabh Bhargava, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby, Thomas D’Aunno, Ben Handel, Jonathan Kolstad, David Nussbaum, Victoria Shaffer, Jonathan Skinner, Peter Ubel, and Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher. Behavioral Science & Policy 3 (1), 2017: 53–69.
Incentivizing Organ Donor Registrations With Organ Allocation Priority
Tamar Ashkenazi, Judd B. Kessler, Jacob Lavee, Alvin E. Roth, and Avraham Stoler. Health Economics 26 (4), 2017: 500–510.
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The Effects of Youth Employment: Evidence from New York City Lotteries
Alexander Gelber, Adam Isen, and Judd B. Kessler. Quarterly Journal of Economics 131 (1), 2016: 423–460.
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Procedural Fairness and the Cost of Control
Judd B. Kessler and Stephen Leider. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 32 (4), 2016: 685–718.
Tax Aversion in Labor Supply
Judd B. Kessler and Michael I. Norton. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 124, 2016: 15–28.
The Articulation Effect of Government Policy: Health Insurance Mandates Versus Taxes
Keith M. Ericson and Judd B. Kessler. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 124, 2016: 43–54.
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Incentivizing Authorization for Deceased Organ Donation with Organ Allocation Priority: The First Five Years
Tamar Ashkenazi, Judd B. Kessler, Jacob Lavee, Alvin E. Roth, and Avraham Stoler. American Journal of Transplantation 16 (9), 2016: 2639–2645.
Using Behavioral Economics to Design Physician Incentives That Deliver High-Value Care
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Peter A. Ubel, Judd B. Kessler, Gregg Meyer, Ralph W. Muller, Amol S. Navathe, Pankaj Patel, Robert Pearl, Meredith B. Rosenthal, Lee Sacks, Aditi P. Sen, Paul Sherman, and Kevin G. Volpp. Annals of Internal Medicine 164 (2), 2016: 114–119.
Two Randomized Controlled Pilot Trials of Social Forces to Improve Statin Adherence Among Patients with Diabetes
Peter P. Reese, Jalpa A. Doshi, Joelle Y. Friedman, Judd B. Kessler, Adam S. Mussell, Caroline Carney, Jingsan Zhu, Wenli Wang, Andrea B. Troxel, Peinie Young, Victor F. Lawnicki, Swapnil N. Rajpathak, and Kevin G. Volpp. Journal of General Internal Medicine 31 (4), 2016: 402–410.
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Getting More Organs for Transplantation
Judd B. Kessler and Alvin E. Roth. American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 104 (5), 2014: 425–430.
Loopholes Undermine Donation: An Experiment Motivated by an Organ Donation Priority Loophole in Israel
Judd B. Kessler and Alvin E. Roth. Journal of Public Economics 114, 2014: 19–28.
Learning from (Failed) Replications: Cognitive Load Manipulations and Charitable Giving
Judd B. Kessler and Stephan Meier. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 102, 2014: 10–13.
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Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate
Judd B. Kessler and Alvin E. Roth. American Economic Review 102 (5), 2012: 2018–2047.
Norms and Contracting
Judd B. Kessler and Stephen Leider. Management Science 58 (1), 2012: 62–77.
How to Allocate Slots: The Market Design of Summer Youth Employment Programs
Sara B. Heller and Judd B. Kessler. In Fair by Design: Economic Design Approaches to Inequality, edited by Scott D. Kominers and Alex Teytelboym. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming. (Book Chapter)
External Validity of Laboratory Experiments: The Misleading Emphasis on Quantitative Effects
Judd B. Kessler and Lise Vesterlund. In Handbook of Experimental Economic Methodology, edited by Guillaume Frechette and Andrew Schotter, Oxford University Press, 2015. (Book Chapter)
Behavioural Economics and Health
Judd B. Kessler and C. Yiwei Zhang. In Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health, 6th ed., edited by Rogers Detels, Martin Gulliford, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, and Chorh Chuan Tan. Oxford University Press, 2015. (Book Chapter)