All Stories

  1. Erratum: Self-Control at Work

    Article • Journal of Political Economy, August 2022, University of Chicago Press

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  2. The Challenge of Understanding What Users Want

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  3. Solving medicine’s data bottleneck: Nightingale Open Science

    Article • Nature Medicine, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  4. Measuring the Completeness of Economic Models

    Article • Journal of Political Economy, April 2022, University of Chicago Press

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  5. A 680,000-person megastudy of nudges to encourage vaccination in pharmacies

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  6. Megastudies improve the impact of applied behavioural science

    Article • Nature, December 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  7. Diagnosing Physician Error: A Machine Learning Approach to Low-Value Health Care

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Economics, December 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  8. Fragile Algorithms and Fallible Decision-Makers: Lessons from the Justice System

    Article • Journal of Economic Perspectives, November 2021, American Economic Association

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  9. Integrating explanation and prediction in computational social science

    Article • Nature, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Susan Athey, Sendhil Mullainathan

  10. An algorithmic approach to reducing unexplained pain disparities in underserved populations

    Article • Nature Medicine, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  11. Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive?

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2021, Elsevier

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  12. Quantifying the Causal Effects of Conversational Tendencies

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, October 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  13. Scarcity and Cognitive Function around Payday: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis

    Article • Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, October 2020, University of Chicago Press

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  14. Allocation of COVID-19 Relief Funding to Disproportionately Black Counties

    Article • JAMA, September 2020, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  15. Algorithms as discrimination detectors

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  16. Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations

    Article • Science, October 2019, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  17. Who is Tested for Heart Attack and Who Should Be: Predicting Patient Risk and Physician Error

    Article • August 2019, National Bureau of Economic Research

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  18. Simplicity Creates Inequity

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  19. Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines

    Article • American Economic Review Insights, June 2019, American Economic Association

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  20. Augmenting Pre-Analysis Plans with Machine Learning

    Article • AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2019, American Economic Association

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  21. Simplicity Creates Inequity: Implications for Fairness, Stereotypes, and Interpretability

    Article • May 2019, National Bureau of Economic Research

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  22. Making sense of recommendations

    Article • Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, February 2019, Wiley

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  23. Discrimination In The Age Of Algorithms

    Article • February 2019, National Bureau of Economic Research

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  24. Discrimination in the Age of Algorithms

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2019, Elsevier

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  25. Simplicity Creates Inequity: Implications for Fairness, Stereotypes, and Interpretability

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2019, Elsevier

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  26. An exercise in self-replication: Replicating Shah, Mullainathan, and Shafir (2012)

    Article • Journal of Economic Psychology, December 2018, Elsevier

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  27. An opportunity for self-replication

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  28. Predictive modeling of U.S. health care spending in late life

    Article • Science, June 2018, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  29. Money in the Mental Lives of the Poor

    Article • Social Cognition, February 2018, Guilford Publications

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  30. Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2018, Elsevier

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  31. Individual differences in normal body temperature: longitudinal big data analysis of patient records

    Article • BMJ, December 2017, BMJ

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  32. Human Decisions and Machine Predictions

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  33. Assessing Human Error Against a Benchmark of Perfection

    Article • ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, August 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  34. The Selective Labels Problem

    Article • August 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jure Leskovec, Sendhil Mullainathan

  35. Comparison-based Choices

    Article • June 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  36. The Theory is Predictive, but is it Complete?

    Article • June 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  37. Does Machine Learning Automate Moral Hazard and Error?

    Article • American Economic Review, May 2017, American Economic Association

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  38. Machine Learning: An Applied Econometric Approach

    Article • Journal of Economic Perspectives, May 2017, American Economic Association

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  39. The Theory Is Predictive, but Is It Complete? An Application to Human Perception of Randomness

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2017, Elsevier

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  40. Getting to the Top of Mind: How Reminders Increase Saving

    Article • Management Science, December 2016, INFORMS

    Professor Jonathan Zinman, Sendhil Mullainathan

  41. Thinking, Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago*

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Economics, October 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  42. Assessing Human Error Against a Benchmark of Perfection

    Article • August 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  43. Productivity and Selection of Human Capital with Machine Learning

    Article • American Economic Review, May 2016, American Economic Association

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  44. The Psychological Lives of the Poor

    Article • American Economic Review, May 2016, American Economic Association

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  45. Self-Control at Work

    Article • Journal of Political Economy, December 2015, University of Chicago Press

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  46. Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance *

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Economics, July 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  47. Prediction Policy Problems

    Article • American Economic Review, May 2015, American Economic Association

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  48. Scarcity Frames Value

    Article • Psychological Science, February 2015, SAGE Publications

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  49. Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment *

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Economics, June 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  50. Energy policy with externalities and internalities

    Article • Journal of Public Economics, April 2014, Elsevier

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  51. Behavioral Design: A New Approach to Development Policy

    Article • Review of Income and Wealth, February 2014, Wiley

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  52. Behavioral design: A new approach to development policy

    Article • January 2014, United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  53. Response to Comment on “Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function”

    Article • Science, December 2013, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  54. Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function

    Article • Science, August 2013, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  55. Targeting with Agents

    Article • American Economic Journal Economic Policy, February 2013, American Economic Association

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  56. Some Consequences of Having Too Little

    Article • Science, November 2012, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  57. Notes on behavioral economics and labor market policy

    Article • IZA Journal of Labor Policy, October 2012, De Gruyter

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  58. A Reduced-Form Approach to Behavioral Public Finance

    Article • Annual Review of Economics, September 2012, Annual Reviews

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  59. Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race?

    Article • The Journal of Legal Studies, June 2012, University of Chicago Press

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  60. Health Insurance Coverage and Take‐Up: Lessons from Behavioral Economics

    Article • Milbank Quarterly, March 2012, Wiley

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  61. Psychology and Development Economics

    Article • January 2012, JSTOR

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  62. Comparison Friction: Experimental Evidence from Medicare Drug Plans

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Economics, January 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  63. Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations

    Article • Journal of Economic Perspectives, August 2011, American Economic Association

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  64. Helping Consumers Know Themselves

    Article • American Economic Review, May 2011, American Economic Association

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  65. Self-Control and the Development of Work Arrangements

    Article • American Economic Review, May 2010, American Economic Association

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  66. Behavior and Energy Policy

    Article • Science, March 2010, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  67. Affirmative action in education: Evidence from engineering college admissions in India

    Article • Journal of Public Economics, February 2010, Elsevier

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  68. What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment*

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  69. Behavioral Economics and Tax Policy

    Article • National Tax Journal, September 2009, University of Chicago Press

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  70. Labor market discrimination in Delhi: Evidence from a field experiment

    Article • Journal of Comparative Economics, March 2009, Elsevier

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  71. Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes

    Article • American Economic Journal Applied Economics, January 2009, American Economic Association

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  72. Coarse Thinking and Persuasion*

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  73. Limited Attention and Income Distribution

    Article • American Economic Review, April 2008, American Economic Association

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  74. Why Don't People Insure Late-Life Consumption? A Framing Explanation of the Under-Annuitization Puzzle

    Article • American Economic Review, April 2008, American Economic Association

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  75. Obtaining a Driver's License in India: An Experimental Approach to Studying Corruption

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  76. Better Choices to Reduce Poverty

    Article • May 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  77. Behavioral Economics and Marketing in Aid of Decision Making among the Poor

    Article • Journal of Marketing & Public Policy, April 2006, SAGE Publications

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  78. Psychology, Behavioral Economics, and Public Policy

    Article • Marketing Letters, December 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  79. The Market for News

    Article • American Economic Review, August 2005, American Economic Association

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  80. Do Cigarette Taxes Make Smokers Happier

    Article • The B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, July 2005, De Gruyter

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  81. Implicit Discrimination

    Article • American Economic Review, April 2005, American Economic Association

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  82. Positional Externalities Cause Large and Preventable Welfare Losses

    Article • American Economic Review, April 2005, American Economic Association

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  83. A Behavioral-Economics View of Poverty

    Article • American Economic Review, April 2004, American Economic Association

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  84. How Much Should We Trust Differences-In-Differences Estimates?

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  85. Enjoying the Quiet Life? Corporate Governance and Managerial Preferences

    Article • Journal of Political Economy, October 2003, University of Chicago Press

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  86. Pyramids

    Article • Journal of the European Economic Association, May 2003, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  87. A Memory-Based Model of Bounded Rationality

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2002, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  88. Ferreting out Tunneling: An Application to Indian Business Groups

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2002, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  89. Media Bias

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2002, Elsevier

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  90. Are CEOs Rewarded for Luck? The Ones Without Principals Are

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  91. Do Firm Boundaries Matter?

    Article • American Economic Review, May 2001, American Economic Association

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  92. Do People Mean What They Say? Implications for Subjective Survey Data

    Article • American Economic Review, May 2001, American Economic Association

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  93. Network Effects and Welfare Cultures*

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  94. Agents With and Without Principals

    Article • American Economic Review, May 2000, American Economic Association

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  95. Is there Discretion in Wage Setting? A Test Using Takeover Legislation

    Article • The RAND Journal of Economics, January 1999, Wiley

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  96. Resource bounds and combinations of consensus objects

    Article • January 1993, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  97. Pyramids

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Sendhil Mullainathan

  98. The psychology of nutrition messages

    Article • Emerald

    Sendhil Mullainathan