Publications
Eckel, Catherine, Rick Wilson, and Nanyin Yang. "The evolution of risk attitudes: A panel study of the university years." Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (2025): 1-24.
Working Papers
- under review
I study the adverse effect of clients' active participation on experts' investment of effort in the precision of diagnosis.
Awarded: Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award, awarded by the National Science Foundation ($25,000).
Humanization of Virtual Assistants and Delegation Choices
(with Andreas Drichoutis and Marco Palma)
- under review
We experimentally examine how the gender attribute of virtual assistants affects users' willingness to delegate decision-making to them, and whether these gender attributes shape new gender stereotypes.
"Hot" and "Cold" Punishment in Public Goods Provision [Draft][Slides]
(with Andy Cao, Catherine Eckel, Jinliang Liu, Phatchaya Piriyathanasak, Samuel Lockhart Priestley, and Sora Youn )
With eye trackers to monitor participants' pupil dilation throughout the experiment, we assess how negative emotions play a role in the effectiveness of penalty rules in mitigating the issue of free-riding.
(with Andy Cao, Eugen Dimant, and Kyle Dyndman)
We study the joint effect of competition and social proximity in shaping trust, reciprocity, and altruism.
Work In Progress
Altruistic Lies [In Progress]
(with Paul Feldman, Connor Magnuson, and Marco Palma)
We build a theoretical framework and experiment to study the tradeoff of an individual's concerns on self-interest, other's interests, and norm compliance.