Gary Charness

Research Fellow

University of California, Santa Barbara

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Gary Charness specializes in experimental and behavioral research, conducting both laboratory and field experiments to investigate a wide variety of economic and social environments. He has published his research in many journals, including Econometrica, American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, and Management Science. He received his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan, and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently on the board of six journals (American Economic Review, Management Science, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of the European Economic Association, Experimental Economics, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization).

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in 2011.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16200
Social Preferences: Fundamental Characteristics and Economic Consequences
Ernst Fehr, Gary Charness
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13999
Improving Healthy Eating in Children: Experimental Evidence
Gary Charness, Ramón Cobo-Reyes, Erik Eyster, Gabriel Katz, Ángela Sánchez, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13084
Shaking Things Up: On the Stability of Risk and Time Preferences
Michel Beine, Gary Charness, Arnaud Dupuy, Majlinda Joxhe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12395
Do Measures of Risk Attitude in the Laboratory Predict Behavior under Risk in and outside of the Laboratory?
Gary Charness, Thomas Garcia, Theo Offerman, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2020, 60, 99-123
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12347
An Experimental Study on the Effects of Communication, Credibility, and Clustering in Network Games
Gary Charness, Francesco Feri, Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez, Matthias Sutter
Revised version forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics (accepted August 2021)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8104
Experimental Games on Networks: Underpinnings of Behavior and Equilibrium Selection
Gary Charness, Francesco Feri, Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez, Matthias Sutter
slightly revised version published in: Econometrica, 2014, 82(5), 1615-1670
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7802
Social Comparisons in Wage Delegation: Experimental Evidence
Gary Charness, Ramón Cobo-Reyes, Juan A. Lacomba, Francisco Lagos, José María Pérez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5034
Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive: Experimental Evidence
Gary Charness, David Masclet, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published as 'The dark side of competition for status' in: Management Science, 2014, 60 (1), 38–55
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4941
Lab Labor: What Can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab?
Gary Charness, Peter J. Kuhn
published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3784
Competition and the Ratchet Effect
Gary Charness, Peter J. Kuhn, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (3), 513-547
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