Victoria Prowse
Published and Accepted Papers
Cognitive skills, strategic sophistication, and life outcomes
Journal of Political Economy (accepted)
(with E. Fe and D. Gill) Paper
Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, vol. 102(4), pp 648-663
(with D. Clark, D. Gill and M.Rush) Paper
First-place Loving and Last-place Loathing: How Rank in the Distribution of Performance Affects Effort Provision
Management Science, 2019, vol. 65(2), pp 459-954.
(with D. Gill, Z. Kissova and J. Lee) Paper
Measuring costly effort using the slider task
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2019, vol. 21, pp 1-9
(with D. Gill) Paper Z-Tree code (.ztt file)
Cognitive Ability, Character Skills, and Learning to Play Equilibrium: A Level-k Analysis
Journal of Political Economy, 2016, vol. 124(6), pp 1619-1676.
(with D. Gill) Paper Online Appendix
Longevity, Life-cycle Behavior and Pension Reform
Journal of Econometrics, 2014, vol. 178(3), pp 582-601.
(with P. Haan) Paper
Gender Differences and Dynamics in Competition: The Role of Luck
Quantitative Economics, 2014, vol. 5(2), pp 351-376.
(with D. Gill) Paper
Cheating in the Workplace: An Experimental Study of the Impact of Bonuses and Productivity
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, vol. 96 (December), pp 120-134.
(with D. Gill and M. Vlassopoulos) Paper
A Structural Analysis of Disappointment Aversion in a Real Effort Competition
American Economic Review, 2012, vol. 102(1), pp 469-503.
(with D. Gill) Paper Online Appendix
Modeling Employment Dynamics with State Dependence and Unobserved Heterogeneity
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2012, vol. 30(2), pp 411-431.
Paper Online Appendix
A Structural Approach to Estimating the Effect of Taxation on the Labor Market Dynamics of Older Workers
Econometrics Journal, 2010, vol. 13(3), pp S99-S125.
(with P. Haan) Paper
Estimating Labour Supply Elasticities under Rationing: A Structural Model of Time Allocation Behaviour
Canadian Journal of Economics, 2009, vol. 42(1), pp. 90-112.
Paper Online Appendix
Working Papers
The Heterogeneous Effects of Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings
Revise and resubmit at the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
Insurance, Redistribution, and the Inequality of Lifetime Income
Revise and Resubmit at Quantitative Economics
(with P. Haan and D. Kemptner) Paper
Strategic Complexity and the Value of Thinking
Conditionally accepted at the Economic Journal
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