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Alex Rees-Jones

University of Pennsylvania (per OpenAlex) · ORCID · OpenAlex

19 papers in scope · 19 published · 1 on the econ.EM arXiv · 1,038 citations · h-index 15 (over the papers listed here)

Papers

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The Negative Consequences of Loss-Framed Performance Incentives
published2025 · American Economic Journal Economic Policy · 20 citations · first circulated 2020
with Lamar Pierce, Charlotte Blank
Behavioral Incentive Compatibility and Empirically Informed Welfare Analysis: An Introductory Guide
published2024 · The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 1 citations
Correlation Neglect in Student-to-School Matching
published2024 · American Economic Journal Microeconomics · 9 citations · first circulated 2019
with Ran I. Shorrer, Chloe Tergiman
Behavioral Economics in Education Market Design: A Forward-Looking Review
published2023 · Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics · 18 citations
with Ran I. Shorrer
Price Isn’t Everything: Behavioral Response Around Changes In Sin Taxes
published2023 · National Tax Journal · 20 citations · first circulated 2019
with Kyle Rozema
Immigration Lottery Design: Engineered and Coincidental Consequences of H-1B Reforms
published2022 · The Review of Economics and Statistics · 26 citations · first circulated 2020
with Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez
Experience of the COVID-19 pandemic and support for safety-net expansion
published2022 · 22 citations
with John D’Attoma, Amedeo Piolatto, Luca Salvadori
Learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: It is not who you teach, but how you teach
published2021 · Economics Letters · 150 citations · first circulated 2020
with George Orlov, Douglas McKee, James Berry, Austin Boyle, Thomas J. DiCiccio, Tyler Ransom, Jörg Stoye, James D. Berry, Joerg Stoye
Measuring “Schmeduling”
published2019 · The Review of Economic Studies · 115 citations · first circulated 2016
with Dmitry Taubinsky
Taxation with Non-Standard Utility Functions
published2018 · 111th Annual Conference on Taxation
Behavioral Responses to Taxation
published2018 · 111th Annual Conference on Taxation
published2018 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 82 citations
Taxing Humans: Pitfalls of the Mechanism Design Approach and Potential Resolutions
published2018 · Tax Policy and the Economy · 15 citations · first circulated 2017
with Dmitry Taubinsky
Quantifying Loss-Averse Tax Manipulation
published2017 · The Review of Economic Studies · 107 citations
Suboptimal behavior in strategy-proof mechanisms: Evidence from the residency match
published2017 · Games and Economic Behavior · 116 citations · first circulated 2015
Mistaken Play in the Deferred Acceptance Algorithm: Implications for Positive Assortative Matching
published2017 · American Economic Review · 27 citations
Attention Variation and Welfare: Theory and Evidence from a Tax Salience Experiment
published2016 · The Review of Economic Studies · 71 citations
with Dmitry Taubinsky
Can Marginal Rates of Substitution Be Inferred from Happiness Data? Evidence from Residency Choices
published2014 · American Economic Review · 156 citations · first circulated 2013
with Daniel J. Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Miles Kimball
What Do You Think Would Make You Happier? What Do You Think You Would Choose?
published2012 · American Economic Review · 83 citations
with Daniel J. Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Miles Kimball

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