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DAVID HUFFMAN 416 N. Chester Rd., Apt. 2 Swarthmore, PA 19081 E-mail: [email protected] Webpage: http://www.swarthmore.edu/x28019.xml

PERSONAL

Birth Date: April 4th, 1974 Citizenship: USA

EMPLOYMENT SINCE PH.D.

Associate Professor (with tenure), Swarthmore College February 2012 – Present

Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College January 2008 – February 2013

IZA Senior Research Associate 2006 – 2007 Deputy Director, Behavioral and Personnel Program Area IZA Laboratory Coordinator

IZA Research Associate 2003 – 2006

EDITORIAL POSITIONS

Associate Editor for Management Science January 2013 – present

EDUCATION University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. Economics 2003

Primary Fields: , labor economics, applied .

Dissertation Advisor: Professor George Akerlof

Oberlin College, Oberlin Ohio B.A., magna cum laude in Economics 1996

PUBLICATIONS

“Implicit Contracts, Unemployment, and Market Segmentation” IZA Discussion Paper, No. 5001 (with Steffen Altmann, , and Andreas Grunewald), forthcoming in Review of Economic Studies.

“When a Nudge isn’t Enough: A Field Test of the Power of Defaults to Influence Savings of Low- Income Tax Filers”, NBER Working Paper, No. 16887 (with Erin Bronchetti, Thomas Dee, and Ellen Magenheim), forthcoming in National Tax Journal.

“Validating an Ultra-Short Survey Measure of Impatience”, forthcoming in Economics Letters (with Thomas Dohment, Armin Falk, Jürgen Schupp, , Thomas Vischer, and Gert Wagner).

“Competition Between Organizational Groups: Its Impact on Altruistic and Antisocial ”, Management Science, 2012, 58(5), 948–960 (with Lorenz Goette, Stephan Meier, and Matthias Sutter).

“The Impact of Social Ties on Group Interactions: Evidence from Minimal Groups and Randomly Assigned Real Groups”, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2012, 4(1), 101–115 (with Lorenz Goette and Stephan Meier).

“The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Attitudes,” Review of Economic Studies, 2012,79(2), 645–677 (with Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, Uwe Sunde).

“Reference Points and Effort Provision,” The , 2011, 101(2), 470–492 (with Johannes Abeler, Armin Falk, and Lorenz Goette).

“Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants and Behavioral Consequences,” The Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011,9(3) 522–550, appears under different title as IZA Discussion Paper, No. 1730 (with Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, Uwe Sunde, Jürgen Schupp, Gert Wagner).

“Are and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?”, The American Economic Review, 2010, 100(3), 1238 – 1260 (with Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, and Uwe Sunde).

“Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration,” The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92(3), 684 – 689 (with Holger Bonin, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Jaeger, and Uwe Sunde).

“Biased Probability Judgment: Evidence on Incidence and Relation to Economic Outcomes, from a Representative Sample,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 72(3), 903 – 915 (with Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, Uwe Sunde, and Felix Marklein).

“Homo Reciprocans: Survey Evidence on Prevalence, Behavior and Success,” The Economic Journal, 2009, 119(536), 592 – 612 (with Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, and Uwe Sunde).

“Representative Trust and Reciprocity: Prevalence and Determinants,” Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46(1), 84 - 90 (with Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, and Uwe Sunde).

“Cross-Sectional Earnings Risk and Occupational Sorting: The Role of Risk Attitudes,” , 2007, 14(6), 926 - 937 (with Holger Bonin, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, and Uwe Sunde).

“Affect and the Motivational Foundations of Social Capital,” forthcoming in Review of General Psychology, 2007, 11(1), 0-00 (with Lorenz Goette).

“Studying Labor Market Institutions in the Lab,” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2007, 163(1), 30-45 (with Armin Falk).

“Do Emotions Improve Labor Market Outcomes?” in Emotion and Decision-Making, eds. Roy Baumeister and , 2007, Russell Sage: New York (with Lorenz Goette)

“Affect as a Source of in the Workplace,” in Emotion and Decision-Making, eds. Roy Baumeister and George Loewenstein, 2007, Russell Sage: New York (with Lorenz Goette).

“The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence Using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups,” American Economic Review, 2006 (Papers and Proceedings) 96(2), 212-216 (with Lorenz Goette and Stephan Meier).

and Labor Supply,” Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2 (2-3), 216-228 (with Lorenz Goette and ).

WORKING PAPERS

“Institutions and Contract Enforcement,” NBER Working Paper, w13961 (with Armin Falk and Bentley MacLeod), revise and re-submit at Journal of Labor Economics.

“Performance Pay and Worker Intrinsic Motivation: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment” (with Michael Bognanno).

“Interpreting Time Horizon Effects in Inter-Temporal Choice”, IZA Discussion Paper, No. 6385 (with Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, and Uwe Sunde).

“The Non-Use of Bayes Rule: Representative Evidence on ”, (with Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, Felix Marklein, and Uwe Sunde).

“Do I Have What it Takes? Uncertainty About the Self and Equilibrium Search Outcomes,” IZA Discussion Paper, No. 2531 (with Armin Falk and Uwe Sunde), revise and resubmit at Journal of Macroeconomic Dynamics.

“Self-Confidence and Search,” IZA Discussion Paper, No. 2525 (with Armin Falk and Uwe Sunde).

“Incentives and the Allocation of Effort Over Time: The Joint Role of Affective and Cognitive Decision Making.” IZA Discussion Paper, No. 2400 (with Lorenz Goette).

“Seemingly Irrelevant Events Affect Economic Perceptions and Expectations: The FIFA World Cup 2006 as a Natural Experiment,” IZA Discussion Paper, No. 2275 (with Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, and Uwe Sunde).

“A Monthly Struggle for Self-Control? Hyperbolic Discounting, Mental Accounting, and the Fall in Expenditure Between Paydays,” IZA Discussion Paper, No. 1430 (with Matias Barenstein).

PAPERS CLOSE TO COMPLETION

“Empirical Evidence on Individual Risk Attitudes”, for the Journal of Economic Literature (with Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, and Uwe Sunde).

“The Causal Impact of Trust” (with Bjoern Bartling and Ernst Fehr)

“The Power and Limitations of Tournament Incentives” (with Armin Falk and Ernst Fehr).

“Temporal Stability of Risk Preferences: Survey and Experimental Measures” (with Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, James Heckman, Jürgen Schupp, Uwe Sunde, and Gert Wagner)

“Incentive and Fairness Properties of Workfare: Experimental Evidence” (with Armin Falk and Konrad Mierendorf).

GRANTS

P.I. for RWJ/Donaghue Foundation Grant (with Ellen Magenheim and Erin Bronchetti): Applying Behavioral Economics to Perplexing Problems in Health and Health Care Initiative ($100,000).

RECENT AWARDS

Excellence in Refereeing Award, 2012, from the American Economic Review.

REFEREEING ACTIVITIES

Agricultural Economics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Review, , Economic Journal, , Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of the European Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Journal of Public Economics; Labour Economics, Management Science, National Science Foundation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

TEACHING

Swarthmore College: Advanced Seminar in Behavioral Economics Spring 2008 - Present Experimental Economics Introduction to Economics.

University of Bonn: Experimental Economics, graduate course Spring 2006

INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

University of Nottingham, Visitor Seminar December, 2012 University of Essex (ISER), Visitor Seminar November, 2012 University of Tennessee, Visitor Seminar October, 2012 Wharton School of Business, Applied Micro Seminar October, 2012 Case Western, Visitor Seminar October, 2012 ESA Meeting, New York University June, 2012 Field Days Workshop, WZB Berlin June, 2012 Society of Labor Meeting, Chicago May, 2012 Institute for Study of Labor, Visitor Seminar March, 2012 Vassar College, Visitor Seminar February 2012 George Mason University, Visitor Seminar November, 2011 Drexel, LeBow College of Business, visitor seminar October, 2011 Advances With Field Experiments workshop, U. of Chicago October, 2011 SITE Conference on Behavioral Economics, Stanford September, 2011 Symposium on Behavioral Economics, FDIC September, 2011 ESA Meeting, University of Chicago July, 2011 Maastricht University, Visitor Seminar May, 2011 University of Laussane,Visitor Seminar March, 2011 Tilburg University, Visitor Seminar February, 2011 Carnegie Mellon, Department of Social and Decision Sciences October, 2010 Workshop on Advances with Field Experiments, Wharton School October, 2010 Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Visitor Seminar September, 2010 Royal Holloway, University of London, Visitor Seminar May, 2010 Villanova School of Business, Visitor Seminar December, 2009 NBER, Workshop on Relational Contracts, discussant November, 2009 Cornell University, Visitor Seminar November, 2009 Cemmap Workshop on Novel Measurement, IFS in London September, 2009 ISNIE, Haas School of Business, Berkeley June, 2009 ASSA Meetings, Session on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills January, 2009 Wharton School of Business, Decision Processes Seminar November, 2008 University of Pittsburgh, Visitor Seminar October, 2008 Temple University, Visitor Seminar October, 2008 Princeton University, Behavioral Economics seminar September, 2008 Conference on Understanding Economic Decision Making (SRC, NIA) Jackson Hole September, 2008 Econometric Society North American Meeting, Pittsburgh June, 2008 Society of Labor Economists Meeting, New York City May, 2008 Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Visitor Seminar April 2008 Humbolt University, Visitor Seminar July, 2007 Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative Workshop University of Oxford June 2007 U2007 DE Workshop on Active Labor Market Policy German Federal Labor Ministry, Nuremberg June 2007 Columbia University, Visitor Seminar March, 2007 University of Zurich, Visitor Seminar March, 2007 University of Innsbruck, Visitor Seminar March, 2007 University of Lyon (GATE), Visitor Seminar March, 2007 Uppsala University (IFAU), Visitor Seminar February, 2007 Swarthmore College, Visitor Seminar January, 2007 Haverford College, Visitor Seminar January, 2007 Tufts University, Visitor Seminar January, 2007 University College London, Visitor Seminar January, 2007 University of Cambridge, Applied Microeconomics Seminar October, 2006 Economic Science Association Meeting, Tucson September, 2006 New York University, Experimental Economics Seminar September, 2006 Haverford College, Visitor Seminar September, 2006 EEA Meeting, Vienna August, 2006 Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Visitor Seminar July, 2006 Laboratory Economics and the Field (LEaf) University College London and LSE May, 2006 ASSA Meetings, Session on Behavioral Labor Economics January, 2006 UC Berkeley, Psychology and Economics Seminar November, 2005 University of Maastricht, Labor and Technology Seminar September, 2005 Econometric Society World Congress, London August, 2005 Emotion and Decision Making Meeting Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley July 2005 ESPE Meeting, Paris June, 2005 Tinbergen Institute, Labor Seminar February, 2005 European Association of Labor Economists Conference, Lisbon September, 2004 Summer Institute on Emotion and Decision Making Center for the Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford Summer 2004 Economic Science Association Meeting, Amsterdam June, 2004 Budapest Workshop on Behavioral Economics CEU University, Budapest July 2003 Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn May 8, 2003 Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Visiting Scholar Series April 2, 2003

WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED

IZA Topic Week on Behavioral and Organizational Economics Organizer June 2006 IZA Workshop on Behavioral and Organizational Economics Organizer May 2005