← All authors Sendhil Mullainathan Massachusetts Institute of Technology (from arXiv:2404.10111, 2024) · ORCID · OpenAlex
68 papers in scope · 66 published · 2 on the econ.EM arXiv · 38,906 citations · h-index 47 (over the papers listed here)
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Papers (3 of 68)
published 2026 · Annual Review of Economics · 19 citations · first circulated 2025
Economics in the Age of Algorithms
published 2025 · AEA Papers and Proceedings · 1 citations
Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive?
published 2024 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 59 citations · first circulated 2021
with Supreet Kaur, Suanna Oh, Frank Schilbach
working paper 2024 · arXiv · 5 citations · first circulated 2023
Machine Learning as a Tool for Hypothesis Generation
published 2024 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 75 citations · first circulated 2023
The Challenge of Understanding What Users Want: Inconsistent Preferences and Engagement Optimization
published 2023 · Management Science · 28 citations · first circulated 2022
Self-Control at Work
published 2022 · Journal of Political Economy
with Supreet Kaur, Michael Kremer
The Challenge of Understanding What Users Want
published 2022 · Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation · 11 citations
Measuring the Completeness of Economic Models
published 2021 · Journal of Political Economy · 51 citations
Diagnosing Physician Error: A Machine Learning Approach to Low-Value Health Care
published 2021 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 23 citations · first circulated 2019
with Ziad Obermeyer
Fragile Algorithms and Fallible Decision-Makers: Lessons from the Justice System
published 2021 · The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 65 citations
Allocation of COVID-19 Relief Funding to Disproportionately Black Counties
published 2020 · JAMA · 41 citations
with Pragya Kakani, Amitabh Chandra, Ziad Obermeyer
Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines
published 2019 · American Economic Review Insights · 32 citations · first circulated 2018
with Dean Karlan, Benjamin Roth
Discriminative Regularization for Latent Variable Models with Applications to Electrocardiography
published 2019 · International Conference on Machine Learning · 6 citations
with Andrew C. Miller, Ziad Obermeyer, John P. Cunningham
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Augmenting Pre-Analysis Plans with Machine Learning
published 2019 · AEA Papers and Proceedings · 14 citations
Human Decisions and Machine Predictions
published 2017 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 778 citations
Assessing Human Error Against a Benchmark of Perfection
published 2017 · ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data · 26 citations · first circulated 2016
with Ashton Anderson, Jon Kleinberg
working paper 2017 · arXiv · 7 citations
Machine Learning: An Applied Econometric Approach
published 2017 · The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 1917 citations
Does Machine Learning Automate Moral Hazard and Error?
published 2017 · American Economic Review · 162 citations
with Ziad Obermeyer
Thinking, Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago*
published 2016 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 491 citations · first circulated 2015
Productivity and Selection of Human Capital with Machine Learning
published 2016 · American Economic Review · 191 citations
The Psychological Lives of the Poor
published 2016 · American Economic Review · 405 citations
with Frank Schilbach, Heather Schofield
Self-Control at Work
published 2015 · Journal of Political Economy · 232 citations
with Supreet Kaur, Michael Kremer
Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance*
published 2015 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 243 citations · first circulated 2012
with Katherine Baicker, Joshua Schwartzstein
Prediction Policy Problems
published 2015 · American Economic Review · 582 citations
Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment*
published 2014 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 317 citations
with Rema Hanna, Joshua Schwartzstein
Behavioral Design: A New Approach to Development Policy
published 2014 · Review of Income and Wealth · 269 citations
with Saugato Datta
Energy policy with externalities and internalities
published 2014 · Journal of Public Economics · 278 citations · first circulated 2012
with Hunt Allcott, Dmitry Taubinsky
How Scarcity Frames Value
published 2014 · ACR North American Advances · 2 citations
with Anuj Shah, Eldar Shafir
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Targeting with Agents
published 2013 · American Economic Journal Economic Policy · 69 citations
When a Co-Pay Gets in the Way of Health
published 2013 · The New York Times
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Public Policy and Extended Families
published 2012 · The World Bank Economic Review · 25 citations · first circulated 2000
with Marianne Bertrand, Douglas L. Miller
A Reduced-Form Approach to Behavioral Public Finance
published 2012 · Annual Review of Economics · 180 citations
with Joshua Schwartzstein, William J. Congdon
Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race?
published 2012 · The Journal of Legal Studies · 317 citations · first circulated 2007
with David Abrams, Marianne Bertrand
Health Insurance Coverage and Take‐Up: Lessons from Behavioral Economics
published 2012 · Milbank Quarterly · 162 citations
with Katherine Baicker, William J. Congdon
Comparison Friction: Experimental Evidence from Medicare Drug Plans
published 2012 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 339 citations · first circulated 2011
with Jeffrey R. Kling, Eldar Shafir, Lee C. Vermeulen, Marian V. Wrobel
Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations
published 2011 · The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 242 citations
Helping Consumers Know Themselves
published 2011 · American Economic Review · 45 citations
with Emir Kamenica, Richard H. Thaler
Self-Control and the Development of Work Arrangements
published 2010 · American Economic Review · 150 citations
with Supreet Kaur, Michael Kremer
What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment *
published 2010 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 556 citations · first circulated 2009
with Marianne Bertrand, Dean Karlan, Eldar Shafir, Jonathan Zinman, Dean S. Karlan
Affirmative action in education: Evidence from engineering college admissions in India
published 2009 · Journal of Public Economics · 277 citations · first circulated 2008
with Marianne Bertrand, Rema Hanna
Behavioral Economics and Tax Policy
published 2009 · National Tax Journal · 88 citations
with William J. Congdon, Jeffrey R. Kling
PCV90 PHARMACEUTICAL SPENDING ON CHRONIC DISEASES IN CONSUMER DIRECTED HEALTH PLANS
published 2009 · Value in Health
with S Kadiyala, DE Spackman
Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes
published 2009 · American Economic Journal Applied Economics · 220 citations
with Ebonya Washington
Labor market discrimination in Delhi: Evidence from a field experiment
published 2008 · Journal of Comparative Economics · 196 citations
with Abhijit Banerjee, Marianne Bertrand, Saugato Datta
Coarse Thinking and Persuasion *
published 2008 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 387 citations · first circulated 2006
with Joshua Schwartzstein, Andrei Shleifer
Why Don't People Insure Late-Life Consumption? A Framing Explanation of the Under-Annuitization Puzzle
published 2008 · American Economic Review · 405 citations
with Jeffrey R. Brown, Jeffrey R. Kling, Marian V. Wrobel, Jeffrey S. Brown
Limited Attention and Income Distribution
published 2008 · American Economic Review · 176 citations
with Abhijit V Banerjee, Abhijit Banerjee
Obtaining a Driver's License in India: An Experimental Approach to Studying Corruption
published 2007 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 517 citations
with M. Bertrand, Simeon Djankov, Rema Hanna
Does corruption produce unsafe drivers
published 2006 · Natural Field Experiments · 42 citations
with Marianne Bertrand, Simeon Djankov, Rema Hanna
Psychology, Behavioral Economics, and Public Policy
published 2005 · Marketing Letters · 105 citations
with On Amir, Dan Ariely, Alan Cooke, David Dunning, Nicholas Epley, Uri Gneezy, Botond Kőszegi, Donald R. Lichtenstein, Nina Mažar, Dražen Prelec, Eldar Shafir, José Silva, …
The Market for News
published 2005 · American Economic Review · 1220 citations · first circulated 2003
with Andrei Shleifer
Market Efficiency versus Behavioral Finance
published 2005 · Journal of applied corporate finance · 30 citations
with Burton G. Malkiel, Bruce E. Stangle
Implicit Discrimination
published 2005 · American Economic Review · 567 citations
with Marianne Bertrand, Dolly Chugh
Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination
published 2004 · American Economic Review · 4465 citations · first circulated 2003
with Marianne Bertrand
A Behavioral-Economics View of Poverty
published 2004 · American Economic Review · 554 citations
with Marianne Bertrand, Eldar Shafir
How Much Should We Trust Differences-In-Differences Estimates?
published 2004 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 10657 citations · first circulated 2001
Enjoying the Quiet Life? Corporate Governance and Managerial Preferences
published 2003 · Journal of Political Economy · 3928 citations
with Marianne Bertrand
Pyramids
published 2003 · Journal of the European Economic Association · 46 citations · first circulated 2002
with Marianne Bertrand
A Memory-Based Model of Bounded Rationality
published 2002 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 459 citations · first circulated 2001
Ferreting out Tunneling: An Application to Indian Business Groups
published 2002 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1727 citations · first circulated 2000
with M. Bertrand, P.K. Mehta, Marianne Bertrand, Paras Mehta
Are CEOs Rewarded for Luck? The Ones Without Principals Are
published 2001 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1819 citations
with M. Bertrand
Do People Mean What They Say? Implications for Subjective Survey Data
published 2001 · American Economic Review · 1419 citations
with Marianne Bertrand
Do Firm Boundaries Matter?
published 2001 · American Economic Review · 98 citations
with David Scharfstein
Network Effects and Welfare Cultures*
published 2000 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 650 citations · first circulated 1998
with Marianne Bertrand, Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Agents With and Without Principals
published 2000 · American Economic Review · 193 citations
with Marianne Bertrand
Is there Discretion in Wage Setting? A Test Using Takeover Legislation
published 1999 · The RAND Journal of Economics · 246 citations · first circulated 1998
with Marianne Bertrand
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