Angela C. M. de Oliveira
Assistant Professor
Grants and Awards | Publications | Working Papers | Work in Progress | Curriculum Vitae
My research interests lie in the field of behavioral public economics – or in incorporating non-standard assumptions into the economic analysis of the public sector. I am interested in the use of experiments to examine effective voluntary provision of public goods. There are potentially many factors that could influence provision, like context, norms, or social preference types. I am interested in investigating which of these factors robustly impact behavior and, beyond that, which ones are informative for public policy.
Recent Grants and Awards
“Preferences and Poverty Traps: Experimental Investigations of Risk, Time and Social Preferences in Two Poor Neighborhoods,” National Science Foundation, Co-PI with Rachel Croson and Catherine Eckel
Recent Publications
Gender and Negotiation in the Small (with Catherine Eckel and Philip J. Grossman). The Negotiation Journal. October 2008. 24(4): 429-445.
Is More Information Always Better? An Experimental Study of Charitable Giving and Hurricane Katrina. (with Catherine Eckel and Philip J. Grossman). Southern Economic Journal. October 2007. 72(2): 388-411.
Working Papers
Are Preferences Stable Across Domains? An Experimental Investigation of Social Preferences in the Field (with Rachel T. A. Croson and Catherine C. Eckel). Under Review, 2009.
Local Context, Social Interactions, and Public Goods. (with Tammy Leonard and Rachel T. A. Croson). Under Review, 2009.
Social Norms of Sharing in High School: Teen Student Giving in the Dictator Game (with Catherine Eckel, Philip J. Grossman, Cathleen Johnson, Christian Rojas and Rick Wilson). CBEES Working paper #2008-4. 2008.
Risk Aversion in High School Students: Games and Surveys. (with Catherine Eckel, Philip J. Grossman, Cathleen Johnson, Christian Rojas, and Rick Wilson). CBEES Working paper #2008-5.2008.
One Bad Apple: Uncertainty and Heterogeneity in Public Good Provision (with Rachel Croson and Catherine Eckel).
Community Characteristics and Local Public Good Provision (with Rachel Croson and Catherine Eckel).
Work in Progress
An Investigation of Social Preference Types (with Rachel Croson and Catherine Eckel)
Social Identity and the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods (with Sherry Xin Li and Catherine Eckel)
Preferences for Risk and Time among Low-Income Minorities: A Neighborhood-Level Comparison (with Rachel Croson, Catherine Eckel, Philip J. Grossman, and Cathleen Johnson)
Time Preference among High School Students: A Methodological Note (with Catherine Eckel, Philip J. Grossman, Cathleen Johnson, Christian Rojas, and Rick Wilson).
Risk Preferences and Risky Behavior for High School Students (with Catherine Eckel, Philip J. Grossman, Cathleen Johnson, Christian Rojas, and Rick Wilson).
