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)
A Model of Information Nudges
Lucas C. Coffman, Clayton R. Featherstone, and Judd B. Kessler. 2024. (Working Paper)
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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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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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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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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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.
Procedural Fairness and the Cost of Control
Judd B. Kessler and Stephen Leider. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 32 (4), 2016: 685–718.
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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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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Norms and Contracting
Judd B. Kessler and Stephen Leider. Management Science 58 (1), 2012: 62–77.
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)