Jeffrey P. Carpenter

Research Fellow

Middlebury College

jcarpent@middlebury.edu

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Research Interests

Jeffrey Carpenter is the James Jermain Professor of Political Economy at Middlebury College and is currently (or has been) an Associate Editor at Management Science, the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. His research has been published in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Economic Journal, Games and Economic Behavior, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Development Economics and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among other journals.

His research interests include Experimental and Behavioral Economics with applications to Labor, Public and Development Economics. While pursuing these interests he has conduct lab and field experiments in North America, South America, Europe and Asia.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in 2004. In the first half of 2009 he was in residence at IZA as a Visiting Research Fellow.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16205

A Behaviorally-Validated Warm Glow Questionnaire

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Alex Lyford, Mingfang Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15590

Measuring Socially Appropriate Social Preferences

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Andrea Robbett

published in: Games and Economic Behavior 2024, 147, 517 - 532

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15292

Do Losses Trigger Deliberative Reasoning?

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, David Munro

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13560

Socially Optimal Mistakes? Debiasing COVID-19 Mortality Risk Perceptions and Prosocial Behavior

Martin Abel, Tanya Byker, Jeffrey P. Carpenter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12253

Advanced Counter-Biasing

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Kevin Benscheidt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11760

The Shape of Warm Glow: Field Experimental Evidence from a Fundraiser

Jeffrey P. Carpenter

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 191, 555-574

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10736

The Sequencing of Gift Exchange: A Field Trial

Jeffrey P. Carpenter

published in: the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 139, 26 - 31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10626

Gender Differences in Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Competitive Behavior

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Rachel Frank, Emiliano Huet-Vaughn

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 77, 170 - 176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10576

Ceding Control: An Experimental Analysis of Participatory Management

Philip Mellizo, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Peter Hans Matthews

published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2017, 3, 62 - 74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9946

Profit Sharing and Peer Reporting

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Andrea Robbett, Prottoy Akbar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9778

The Labor Supply of Fixed-Wage Workers: Estimates from a Real Effort Experiment

Jeffrey P. Carpenter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8952

Incentives and the Design of Charitable Fundraisers: Lessons from a Field Experiment

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Peter Hans Matthews

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8820

Compensating Differentials in Experimental Labor Markets

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Peter Hans Matthews, Andrea Robbett

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 69, 50-60

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8369

Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Peter Hans Matthews, Benjamin Tabb

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 143, 65 - 72

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7602

Motivating Agents: How Much Does the Mission Matter?

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Erick Gong

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 35 (1 Part 1), 211-236

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7499

Exploitation Aversion: When Financial Incentives Fail to Motivate Agents

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, David Dolifka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5808

Which Measures of Time Preference Best Predict Outcomes? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Aldo Rustichini

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84 (1), 308-320

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5460

Workplace Democracy in the Lab

Philip Mellizo, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Peter Hans Matthews

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5389

Self Selection Does Not Increase Other-Regarding Preferences among Adult Laboratory Subjects, but Student Subjects May Be More Self-Regarding than Adults

Jon E. Anderson, Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Karsten Maurer, Daniele Nosenzo, Ruth Potter, Kim Rocha, Aldo Rustichini

revised version published as 'Self-Selection and Variations in the Laboratory Measurement of Other-Regarding Preferences Across Subject Pools: Evidence From One College Student and Two Adult Samples' in: Experimental Economics, 2013, 16 (2), 170-189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5307

Network Architecture and Mutual Monitoring in Public Goods Experiments

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Shachar Kariv, Andrew Schotter

published in: Review of Economic Design, 2012, 16, 93 - 118

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5279

Risk Attitudes and Well-Being in Latin America

Juan Camilo Cardenas, Jeffrey P. Carpenter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4840

Overconfidence is a Social Signaling Bias

Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Aldo Rustichini

revised version published as 'Overconfidence and Social Signalling' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (3), 949-983

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3609

Cognitive Skills Explain Economic Preferences, Strategic Behavior, and Job Attachment

Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Aldo Rustichini

revised version published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2009, 106 (19), 7745-7750

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3021

Why Volunteer? Evidence on the Role of Altruism, Reputation, and Incentives

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Caitlin Knowles Myers

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (11-12), 911-920

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2972

Tournaments and Office Politics: Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Peter Hans Matthews, John Schirm

published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (1), 504-517

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2789

Using Behavioral Economic Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier: The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project

Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Kristen Monaco, Kay Porter, Aldo Rustichini

published in: Stefan Bender, Julia Lane, Kathryn Shaw, Fredrik Andersson, and Till Von Wachter (eds.), The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2008, 45-106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2106

Mutual Monitoring in Teams: Theory and Experimental Evidence on the Importance of Reciprocity

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 71(2), 221-232

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2013

Performance Pay and the Erosion of Worker Cooperation: Field Experimental Evidence

Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 70 (3), 458-469

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1697

Do Social Preferences Increase Productivity? Field Experimental Evidence from Fishermen in Toyama Bay

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Erika Seki

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1691