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Overview

Lise Vesterlund is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research primarily spans social sciences with a particular focus on subfields such as Gender Studies, Safety Research, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, and Demography.

Their body of work covers several key topics, including Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Gender Diversity and Inequality, Culture, Economy, and Development Studies, Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems, Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, and Economic Policies and Impacts.

Vesterlund has published in a variety of academic venues. The most frequent publication platforms include the SSRN Electronic Journal, American Economic Review, The Economic Journal, Annual Review of Economics, and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. These venues represent a broad engagement with economic and behavioral research.

Their recent papers reflect diverse interests and collaboration with multiple co-authors. Notable publications include:

  • Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility, 2022, American Economic Review
  • Gender Differences in Negotiation: Evidence from Real Estate Transactions, 2021, The Economic Journal
  • Gender Differences in Negotiation: Can Interventions Reduce the Gap?, 2023, Annual Review of Economics
  • Belief Elicitation: Limiting Truth Telling with Information on Incentives, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Going Virtual: A Step-by-Step Guide to Taking the In-Person Experimental Lab Online, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent collaborators in Vesterlund's research include David Danz, Alistair J. Wilson, Steffen Andersen, Julie Marx, and Kasper Meisner Nielsen. These co-authors have contributed to multiple publications alongside Vesterlund, indicating ongoing scholarly partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Do Women Shy Away From Competition? Do Men Compete Too Much?

    Muriel Niederle;Lise Vesterlund

  • Which is the Fair Sex? Gender Differences in Altruism

    James Andreoni;Lise Vesterlund

  • Gender and Competition

    Muriel Niederle;Muriel Niederle;Lise Vesterlund

  • The Carrot or the Stick: Rewards, Punishments, and Cooperation

    James Andreoni;William Harbaugh;Lise Vesterlund

  • Explaining the Gender Gap in Math Test Scores: The Role of Competition

    Muriel Niederle;Lise Vesterlund

  • How Costly Is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness

    Muriel Niederle;Carmit Segal;Lise Vesterlund

  • The informational value of sequential fundraising

    Lise Vesterlund

  • Gender Differences in Accepting and Receiving Requests for Tasks with Low Promotability

    Linda Babcock;Maria P. Recalde;Lise Vesterlund;Laurie Weingart

  • Risk Attitudes of Children and Adults: Choices Over Small and Large Probability Gains and Losses

    William T. Harbaugh;Kate Krause;Lise Vesterlund

  • Leading-by-example and signaling in voluntary contribution games: an experimental study

    Jan Potters;Martin Sefton;Lise Vesterlund

  • After you—endogenous sequencing in voluntary contribution games

    Jan Potters;Martin Sefton;Lise Vesterlund

  • Are Adults Better Behaved Than Children? Age, Experience, and the Endowment Effect.

    William T Harbaugh;Kate Krause;Lise Vesterlund

  • Do Women shy away from Competition

    Lise Vesterlund;Muriel Niederle

  • Gender differences in bargaining outcomes: A field experiment on discrimination

    Marco Castillo;Ragan Petrie;Maximo Torero;Lise Vesterlund

  • What Makes an Allocation Fair? Some Experimental Evidence

    James Andreoni;Paul M. Brown;Lise Vesterlund

  • Why Do People Give? Testing Pure and Impure Altruism

    Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm;Lise Vesterlund;Huan Xie

  • Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility

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  • Altruism in Experiments

    James Andreoni;William T. Harbaugh;Lise Vesterlund

  • The Effect of Status on Charitable Giving

    Cagri S. Kumru;Lise Vesterlund

  • Gender Differences in Competition

    Muriel Niederle;Lise Vesterlund

  • How Costly is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness

    Lise Vesterlund

Frequent Co-Authors

Muriel Niederle
Muriel Niederle Stanford University
Arno Riedl
Arno Riedl Maastricht University
Maximo Torero
Maximo Torero Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Laurie R. Weingart
Laurie R. Weingart Carnegie Mellon University

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