Abstract: Research in psychology and neuroscience provides compelling evidence that negative emotions hinder individuals' ability to exert self-control. Similarly, a growing body of empirical research in economics suggests that poverty can induce negative emotional states, which generate...

(joint with Peter J. Hammond) Abstract: This paper extends previous work on consequentialist decision theory to allow for consequences to accrue at intermediate, non-terminal nodes, implying that each path through a decision tree is mapped to a unique intertemporal consequence stream. By formally...

(joint with Nicole Scholz) In this paper, we study choice under objective risk where the primitive is enriched to include an exogenous equivalence relation on the space of lotteries. We seek conditions on this enlarged primitive, ensuring the existence of an expected utility representation in...

(joint with Charles Gauthier and Raghav Malhotra) Abstract: Classically, testing whether decision makers belong to specific preference classes involves two main approaches. The first, known as the functional approach, assumes access to an entire demand function. The second, the...