Paul Sack Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University
Faculty Research Fellow, NBER
Email: enke@fas.harvard.edu
My research is in behavioral and experimental economics, including applications in cultural economics and political economy. Much of my current work focuses on cognitive information processing (e.g. complexity and cognitive uncertainty), as well as the political consequences and cultural origins of heterogeneity in moral values. Here is a recent research statement.
I received my Ph.D. in 2016 from the University of Bonn and subsequently joined Harvard’s Economics Department. At Harvard, I teach a Ph.D. course on Experimental Economics and an undergraduate class on Economics and Morality.
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Annual Review of Economics , 2024, vol. 16 (1), pp. 133-157. [PDF]
PNAS Nexus , 2024, vol. 3 (10). [PDF]
Working Paper . [PDF]
(Co-edited with Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn and Leonard Wantchekon)
To appear in Elsevier Handbooks in Economics . [Table of Contents]
(with Alexander Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden)
Forthcoming, American Economic Review . [PDF]
(with Mattias Polborn and Alex Wu)
Conditionally accepted (data packet), Journal of the European Economic Association . [PDF]
(with Raymond Fisman, Luis Mota Freitas and Steven Sun)
Forthcoming, American Economic Review: Insights . [PDF]
(with Frederik Schwerter and Florian Zimmermann)
Forthcoming, Journal of Financial Economics . [PDF]
(with Thomas Graeber)
Quarterly Journal of Economics , 2023, vol. 138 (4), pp. 2021-2067 (Lead Article). [PDF] [VOX] [UNDP column]
(with Ricardo Rodriguez-Padilla and Florian Zimmermann)
Review of Economic Studies , 2023, vol. 90 (4), pp. 1934-1962. [PDF] [econimate video]
(with Uri Gneezy, Brian Hall, David Martin, Vadim Nelidov, Theo Offerman, and Jeroen van de Ven)
Review of Economics and Statistics , 2023, vol. 105 (4), pp. 818-832. [PDF]
(with Thomas Graeber and Ryan Oprea)
American Economic Review , 2023, vol. 113 (7), pp. 1933-1966. [PDF]
Nature Human Behaviour , 2023, vol. 7 (1), pp. 134-141. [PDF]
(with Uwe Sunde, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, and Gerrit Meyerheim)
Review of Economic Studies , 2022, vol. 89(10), pp. 2806–2840. [PDF]
(with Ricardo Rodriguez-Padilla and Florian Zimmermann)
Management Science , 2022, vol. 68(5), pp. 3590-3603. [PDF] [Qualtrics files]
(with Yang Xiang, Thomas Graeber, and Samuel Gershman)
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics , 2021, 83, pp. 3024-3034. [PDF]
Journal of Political Economy , 2020, vol. 128(10), pp. 3679-3729 (Lead Article). [PDF] [microeconomic insights]
Quarterly Journal of Economics , 2020, vol. 135(3), pp. 1363-1398. [PDF] [Version 09/2017]
(with Anke Becker and Armin Falk)
AEA Papers & Proceedings , 2020, vol. 110, pp. 319-323. [PDF]
Quarterly Journal of Economics , 2019, vol. 134(2), pp. 953-1019. [PDF] [VOX] [CESifo Award]
(with Florian Zimmermann)
Review of Economic Studies , 2019, vol. 86(1), pp. 313-332. [PDF]
(with Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, David Huffman, and Uwe Sunde)
Quarterly Journal of Economics , 2018, vol. 133(4), pp. 1645-1692 (Lead Article). [PDF] [GPS website]
(with Tilman Drerup and Hans-Martin von Gaudecker)
Journal of Econometrics , 2017, vol. 200(2), pp. 378-389. [PDF]
(with Yiming Cao, Armin Falk, Paola Giuliano and Nathan Nunn)
Revise and resubmit, American Economic Review . [PDF]
(with Cassidy Shubatt)
Revise and resubmit, Econometrica . [PDF] [Code]
(with Thomas Graeber and Ryan Oprea)
Revise and resubmit, Journal of the European Economic Association . [PDF]
(with Thomas Graeber, Ryan Oprea and Jeffrey Yang)
Working Paper . [PDF]
(with Jian-Qiao Zhu, Joshua Peterson and Thomas Griffiths)
Revise and resubmit, Nature Human Behaviour . [PDF]