My Favorite Papers

This is a running list of my favorite papers in Economics and adjacent fields.

• Fujiwara, Thomas. 2015. “Voting Technology, Political Responsiveness, and Infant Health: Evidence from Brazil.” Econometrica 83 (2): 423–464.
• Hayek, Friedrich A. 1945. “The Use of Knowledge in Society.” American Economic Review 35 (4): 519–530.
• Stigler, George J., and Gary S. Becker. 1977. “De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum.” American Economic Review 67 (2): 76–90.
• Thaler, Richard. 1980. “Toward a Positive Theory of Consumer Choice.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 1 (1): 39–60.
• Kőszegi, Botond, and Matthew Rabin. 2006. “A Model of Reference-Dependent Preferences.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 121 (4): 1133–1165.
• Bursztyn, Leonardo, Alessandra L. González, and David Yanagizawa-Drott. 2020. “Misperceived Social Norms: Women Working Outside the Home in Saudi Arabia.” American Economic Review 110 (10): 2997–3029.
• Eyster, Erik, and Matthew Rabin. 2005. “Cursed Equilibrium.” Econometrica 73 (5): 1623–1672.
• O’Donoghue, Ted, and Matthew Rabin. 1999. “Doing It Now or Later.” American Economic Review 89 (1): 103–124.
• Acemoglu, D., and J. A. Robinson. 2000. “Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, and Growth in Historical Perspective.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 115 (4): 1167–99.
• Gabaix, Xavier, and David Laibson. “Shrouded Attributes, Consumer Myopia, and Information Suppression in Competitive Markets.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 121, no. 2 (May 2006): 505–540.
• Engerman, Stanley L., and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. “Factor Endowments, Institutions, and Differential Paths of Growth Among New World Economies: A View from Economic Historians of the United States.” NBER Historical Paper No. 66, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, December 1994.
• Grossman, Gene M., and Elhanan Helpman. “Protection for Sale.” American Economic Review 84, no. 4 (September 1994): 833–850.
• Bernheim, B. Douglas. “A Theory of Conformity.” Journal of Political Economy 102, no. 5 (October 1994): 841–877.
• Gabaix, Xavier, and David Laibson. “The Seven Properties of Good Models.” In The Foundations of Positive and Normative Economics: A Handbook, edited by Andrew Caplin and Andrew Schotter, 292–299. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.