David B. Huffman

Research Fellow

University of Pittsburgh

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Research Interests

David Huffman received his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2003. Most of his research lies at the intersection of two fields, Behavioral Economics and Labor Economics. Specific research interests include: The impact of loss aversion on labor supply; complexity in workplace incentive schemes; intrinsic motivation and financial incentives; motivated beliefs and overconfidence; conflict and cooperation between social groups; measurement of individual preferences including risk, time, and social preference around the globe; the role of emotions in decision making.

David joined IZA as a Research Associate in September 2003, and became a Senior Research Associate in September 2006. He has continued to be affiliated with IZA as a Research Fellow. David has been an Assistant and Associate Professor at Swarthmore College, an Associate Professor at University of Oxford, and is now a Full Professor at University of Pittsburgh.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16284
Incentive Complexity, Bounded Rationality and Effort Provision
Johannes Abeler, David B. Huffman, Collin Raymond
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16283
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers
David B. Huffman, Collin Raymond, Julia Shvets
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11920
High-Powered Performance Pay and Crowding out of Non-Monetary Motives
David B. Huffman, Michael L. Bognanno
published in: Management Science, 2018, 64 (10), 4669-4680.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11917
The Causal Effect of Trust
Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, David B. Huffman, Nick Netzer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9674
The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences
Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde
revised version published in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (4), 1935–195
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9504
The Nature and Predictive Power of Preferences: Global Evidence
Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde
revised version published as 'Global Evidence on Economic Preferences' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018, 133 (4), 1645-1692
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6385
Interpreting Time Horizon Effects in Inter-Temporal Choice
Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5189
Group Membership, Competition, and Altruistic versus Antisocial Punishment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Army Groups
Lorenz Götte, David B. Huffman, Stephan Meier, Matthias Sutter
revised version published as 'Competition Between Organizational Groups: Its Impact on Altruistic and Anti-Social Motivations' in: Management Science, 2012, 58 (5), 948-960
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5001
Implicit Contracts, Unemployment, and Labor Market Segmentation
Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman
substantially revised version published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2014, 81 (1), 30-56
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4170
Biased Probability Judgment: Evidence of Incidence and Relationship to Economic Outcomes from a Representative Sample
Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Felix Marklein, Uwe Sunde
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 72 (3), 903-915
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3939
Reference Points and Effort Provision
Johannes Abeler, Armin Falk, Lorenz Götte, David B. Huffman
published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 470-492
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3435
Institutions and Contract Enforcement
Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, W. Bentley MacLeod
revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (3), 571-590
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2735
Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?
Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde
revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (3), 1238–1260
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2655
Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration
David A. Jaeger, Holger Bonin, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92(3), 684–689
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2531
Do I Have What It Takes? Equilibrium Search with Type Uncertainty and Non-Participation
Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2525
Self-Confidence and Search
Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2400
Incentives and the Allocation of Effort Over Time: The Joint Role of Affective and Cognitive Decision Making
Lorenz Götte, David B. Huffman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2380
The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes
Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (2), 645-677
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2310
Studying Labor Market Institutions in the Lab: Minimum Wages, Employment Protection and Workfare
Armin Falk, David B. Huffman
published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2007, 163 (1), 30-45
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2275
Seemingly Irrelevant Events Affect Economic Perceptions and Expectations: The FIFA World Cup 2006 as a Natural Experiment
Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2205
Homo Reciprocans: Survey Evidence on Prevalence, Behavior and Success
Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde
published in: The Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (536), 592 - 612
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2020
The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups
Lorenz Götte, David B. Huffman, Stephan Meier
published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (2), 212-216
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1930
Cross-sectional Earnings Risk and Occupational Sorting: The Role of Risk Attitudes
Holger Bonin, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde
published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14(6), 926-937
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1895
Do Emotions Improve Labor Market Outcomes?
Lorenz Götte, David B. Huffman
published in: Vohs, K.D, Baumeister, R.F; Loewenstein, G. (eds.): Do emotions help or hurt decision making? A Hedgefoxian Perspective, New York, Sage, 2007
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1890
Affect as a Source of Motivation in the Workplace: A New Model of Labor Supply, and New Field Evidence on Income Targeting and the Goal Gradient
Lorenz Götte, David B. Huffman
published in: Vohs, K.D, Baumeister, R.F; Loewenstein, G. (eds.): Do emotions help or hurt decision making? A Hedgefoxian Perspective, New York, Sage, 2007
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1730
Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
revised version published as 'Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants, and Behavioral Consequences' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (3), 522–550
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1430
Riches to Rags Every Month? The Fall in Consumption Expenditures Between Paydays
David B. Huffman, Matias Barenstein
revised version: "A Monthly Struggle for Self-Control? Hyperbolic Discounting, Mental Accounting, and the Fall in Consumption Between Paydays"
IZA Discussion Paper No. 927
Loss Aversion and Labor Supply
Lorenz Götte, David B. Huffman, Ernst Fehr
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2 (2-3), 216-228
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