Publications

Audiovisual
Mullainathan S. TED Talk. 2011.
Book
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Mullainathan S, Congdon WJ, Kling JR. Policy and Choice: Public Finance through the Lens of Behavioral Economics. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press; 2011.
Book Chapter
Mullainathan S, Banerjee AV, Hanna R. Corruption. In: Handbook of Organizational Economics. ; Forthcoming. PDF
Mullainathan S, Schnabl P. Does Less Market Entry Regulation Generate More Entrepreneurs? Evidence from a Regulatory Reform in Peru. In: Lerner J, Schoar A International Differences in Entrepreneurship. University of Chicago Press; 2010. p. 159-179. PDF
Mullainathan S, Barr MS, Shafir E. The Case for Behaviorally Informed Regulation. In: Moss D, Cisternino J New Perspectives on Regulation. Cambridge: The Tobin Project; 2009. p. 25-62. PDF
Mullainathan S, Washington E, Azari JR. The Impact of Electoral Debate on Public Opinion: An Experimental Investigation of the 2005 New York City Mayoral Election. In: Shapiro I, Stokes SC, Wood EJ, Kirshner AS Political Representation. Cambridge University Press; 2009. p. 324-342.
Mullainathan S, Shafir E. Savings Policy and Decisionmaking in Low-Income Households. In: Barr M, Blank R Insufficient Funds: Savings, Assets, Credit and Banking Among Low-Income Households. Russell Sage Foundation Press; 2009. p. 121-145. PDF
Mullainathan S, Barr MS, Shafir E. Behaviorally Informed Home Mortgage Credit Regulation. In: Retsinas NP, Belsky ES Borrowing to Live Consumer and Mortgage Credit Revised. Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press; 2008. p. 170-203. PDF
Mullainathan S. Psychology and Development Economics. In: Diamond P, Vartiainen H Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation 50th Anniversary Conference on Economic Institutions and Behavioral Economics. Princeton University Press; 2007. PDF
Mullainathan S. Better Choices to Reduce Poverty. In: Banerjee A, Mookherjee D, Benabou R Understanding Poverty. Oxford University Press; 2006. p. 379-389. PDF
Mullainathan S, Thaler R. Behavioral Economics. In: International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences. Pergamon Press; 2001. p. 1094-1100.
Conference Proceedings
Mullainathan S. Development Economics Through the Lens of Psychology. Proceedings of the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics [Internet]. 2006. Website PDF
Mullainathan S, Kleinberg JM. Resource Bounds and Combinations of Consensus Objects. Proceedings of the 12th Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing. 1993. PDF
Journal Article
Mullainathan S, Niehaus P, Attanassova A, Bertrand M. Targeting with Agents. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Forthcoming.
Bertrand M, Mullainathan S, Shafir E. Behavioral Economics and Marketing in Aid of Decision Making among the Poor. Journal of Public Policy & Marketing. 2012;Vol. 25(No. 1):pp. 8-23. . PDF
Mullainathan S, Kling JR, Shafir E, Vermeulen L, Wrobel MV. Comparison Friction: Experimental Evidence from Medicare Drug Plans. Quarterly Journal of Economics. 2012;127(1):199-235. PDF
Mullainathan S, Katz LF, Congdon WJ, Babcock L. Notes on Behavioral Economics and Labor Market Policy. IZA Journal of Labor Policy. 2012. behavioral_labor_policy_submit_072412.pdf
Mullainathan S, Kamenica E, Thale R. Helping Consumers Know Themselves. AER Papers and Proceedings. 2011;2011. PDF
Mullainathan S, Ludwig J, Kling JR. Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations. Journal of Economic Perspectives. 2011;25(3):17-38. PDF
Mullainathan S, Bertrand M, Hanna R. Affirmative Action in Education: Evidence from Engineering College Admissions in India. Journal of Public Economics. 2010;1-2:16-29. PDF
Mullainathan S, Allcott H. Behavior and Energy Policy. Science [Internet]. 2010;5:1204-1205. Website
Mullainathan S, Amabile TM, Kramer SJ, Dixon R, Candell LM, Bonabeau E, Bingham A, Schact A, Hidary JD, Litan RE. Breakthrough Ideas for 2010. Harvard Business Review [Internet]. 2010;88(3):41-57. Website
Kaur S, Kremer M, Mullainathan S. Self-Control and the Development of Work Arrangements. AER Papers and Proceedings. 2010;100:624-628. PDF
Mullainathan S, Bertrand M, Karlan D, Shafir E, Zinman J. What’s Advertising Content Worth?Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 2010;125(1):263–305. PDF
Mullainathan S, Bertrand M, Karlan D, Shafir E, Zinman J. What's Psychology Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field. Quarterly Journal of Economics. 2010;125(1):1-45. PDF

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