C.V.
Working Papers
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Popular Press
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334 Taylor Hall
427 Lorch St.
Madison, WI
53706
Assistant Professor
Agricultural and Applied Economics
UW Madison
tel: (608) 262-9482
fax: (608) 262-4376
lschechter [at] wisc [dot] edu
Curriculum Vitae
- "To
Deceive
or Not To Deceive: The Effect of Deception on Behavior in Future Laboratory
Experiments" (with Julian Jamison and Dean Karlan) [Jan 2008].
- "Evaluating Different Approaches to Estimating Vulnerability," (with Ethan Ligon) 2004. World Bank, Social Protection Discussion Paper No. 0410.
Publications
- "Detecting Problems in Survey Data using Benford's
Law," (with George Judge) Forthcoming Journal of
Human Resources.
- "Theft, Gift-Giving, and
Trustworthiness: Honesty is Its Own Reward in Rural Paraguay,"
2007. American Economic Review, 97(5): 1560-1582. [Older
version here.]
- "Risk Aversion and Expected-Utility
Theory: A Calibration Exercise," 2007. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 35(1): 67-76. [Older
version here.]
- "An Empirical Non-Parametric Likelihood Family of
Data-Based Benford-Like Distributions," (with M. Grendar and G. Judge)
2007. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 380: 429–438. [Older version
here.]
- "Traditional Trust Measurement and the Risk
Confound: An Experiment in Rural Paraguay," 2007. Journal of
Economic Behavior and Organization, 62(2): 272-292. [Older version
here.]
- "Measuring Vulnerability," (with E. Ligon) 2003. Economic Journal, 113(486): 95-102. [and the longer, unpublished version "Measuring Vulnerability: The Director's Cut," (with Ethan Ligon) 2002. UN/WIDER Discussion Paper No. 2002/86.] [Personal version of published paper here.]
Write-ups in the (Not So) Popular Press
- "Figuring the Net Worth of Trust," 2007.
Grow: Wisconsin's Magazine for the Life Sciences, 1(1): 27.
- "Young Guns: 5 Hot Minds in Economics," 2006.
Yale Economic Review, 3(1): 30-37.
- "To Deceive or not to Deceive? The Economic Consequences of Deception," 2006. Yale Economic Review, 3(1): 3.
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