Curriculum Vitae - Lise Vesterlund

Andrew W. Mellon Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Sept. 2007
Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Sept. 2004-2007
Associate Member, Center of Economic and Business Research, Copenhagen Business School, July 2005
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Aug. 2001-Aug. 2004
Visiting Assistant Professor, HBS, Harvard University, Aug. 2000- July 2001
Assistant Professor, Iowa State University, Sept. 1997- Aug. 2001
Visiting Assistant Professor, Center of Philanthropy and Dept. of Econ., IUPUI, Fall 1999.

Publications:

“Monopoly Pricing in the Binary Herding Model,” with Subir Bose, Gerhard Orosel, and Marco Ottaviani, forthcoming Economic Theory

“Strategic Behavior and Learning in Repeated Voluntary Contributions Mechanism Experiments,” with Laurent Mulller, Martin Sefton, and Richard Steinberg, forthcoming Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

“Giving Little by Little: Dynamic Voluntary Contribution Games,” with John Duffy and Jack Ochs, Journal of Public Economics, 91, 2007, 1708–1730.

“Do Women Shy Away from Competition? Do Men Compete too Much?” with Muriel Niederle, Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2007, Vol. 122, No. 3: 1067-1101.

“Leading-by-example and Signaling in Voluntary Contribution Games: An Experimental Study” with Jan Potters and Martin Sefton, Economic Theory, 2007, 33, 169-182.

“Learning by Children in Limited and Full Information Ultimatum Games,” with William Harbaugh and Kate Krause, Journal of Economic Psychology, 2007, 28, 127-142.

“Dynamic Monopoly Pricing and Herding,” with Subir Bose, Gerhard Orosel, and Marco Ottaviani, RAND Journal of Economic, Vol. 37 (no. 4), Winter 2006, pp. 910-928.

“After You - Endogenous Sequencing in Voluntary Contribution Games,” with Jan Potters and Martin Sefton, Journal of Public Economics, August 2005, 1399-1419.

“The Carrot or the Stick: Rewards, Punishments, and Cooperation” with James Andreoni and William Harbaugh, American Economic Review, June 2003, 893-902.

“The Informational Value of Sequential Fundraising,” Journal of Public Economics, 87, March 2003, 627-658.

“Risk Attitudes of Children and Adults: Choices over Small and Large Probability Gains and Losses,” with William Harbaugh and Kate Krause, Experimental Economics, 5, June 2002, 53-84.

“What Makes an Allocation Fair? Some Experimental Evidence,” with James Andreoni and Paul Brown, Games and Economic Behavior, 40, 1, July 1, 2002, 1-24.

“Which is the Fair Sex? On Gender Differences in Altruism,” with James Andreoni, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116, February 2001, 293-312.

“Are Adults Better Behaved than Children? Age, Experience, and the Endowment Effect” with William Harbaugh and Kate Krause, Economics Letters, 2001, 175-181.

Other Refereed Publications:

“Altruism in Experiments” with Jim Andreoni and William Harbaugh, prepared for The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, 2007.

“Why do People Give?” in Richard Steinberg and Walter W. Powell eds., The Nonprofit Sector, 2nd edition, Yale Press, 2006.

“Trust in Children,” with William Harbaugh, Kate Krause, and Steve Liday, in Elinore Ostrom and James Walker eds., Trust, Reciprocity and Gains from Association: Interdisciplinary Lessons from Experimental Research, New York City, Russell Sage Foundation, 2003.

Working papers:

“What are the Costs of Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitive Attitudes,” with Muriel Niederle and Carmit Segal.

“The Fourfold Pattern of Risk Attitudes,” with William Harbaugh and Kate Krause. “The Effect of Status on Charitable Giving,” with Cagri Kumru.

“Provision Point Mechanism: A Case of Over Provision of Public Goods” with Massimo Morelli.

“The Effects of Risk Aversion on Job Matching: Can Differences in Risk Aversion Explain the Wage Gap?”

Work in Progress:

“An Experimental Test of the Impure Altruism Model of Giving,” with Mark Wilhelm and Huan Xie.

“Competitive Behavior Among Boys and Girls,” joint with Bill Harbaugh and Muriel Niederle.

“Gender Differences in Competitive Attitudes: Efficiency Effects of Single-Sex Competition” joint with Muriel Niederle.

“Gender Difference in Competitive Attitudes - Does it depend on Race?”with Muriel Niederle, Ragan Petrie, and Carmit Segal.

“Carrot or the Stick: Endogenous Choice of Institutions,” with Jim Andreoni and Bill Harbaugh.

“How Robust is Overconfidence? The Effect of Noisy and Non-Noisy Signals” with Ulrike Malmendier and Stefano DellaVigna.

“Couples and Risk Aversion” with William Harbaugh and Kate Krause.

Grants:

National Science Foundation Grant, Collaborative Research: Gender Differences in Competitive Attitudes, 2006-2009 ($198,545 awarded to Univ. of Pittsburgh) National Science Foundation Grant, Charitable Giving and Fundraising, 2004-2007 ($240,000)

National Science Foundation Grant, Children’s Development of Economic Skills and Preferences, with William Harbaugh and Kate Krause, 2001-2004 ($340,000)

National Science Foundation Grant, Sequential Fundraising, 1999-2002 ($104,000)

MacArthur Foundation Grant, on risk, with William Harbaugh and Kate Krause, 19992001 ($5,000)

Russell Sage Foundation, grant awarded to arrange conference on behavioral economics, 1999 ($5,000)

Invited Scholar at the Center of Philanthropy and the Economics Department at IUPUI, Fall 1999 ($35,000)

Other Professional Activities:

Associate Editor: Journal of Public Economics (2008 - ), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (2005- )

Member, Review Panel, National Science Foundation, August 2004- November 2006

Member of the 2004 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society Program Committee Co-Organizer of conference on Experimental Economics, The Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE 2004, SITE 2005)

Section Head of Political Economy for the ESA, 2004-2007

Member of the 2003 International Meetings of the ESA Program Committee

Technical Advisory Committee member on Overhead Cost Study by Urban Institute and the Center of Philanthropy.

Co-Organizer of RSF Conference on Behavioral Economics, Berkeley 1999.

Referee for The American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Econometrica, Economic Inquiry, Economic Letters, Economic Theory, Experimental Economics, European Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economic, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of Political Economy, National Science Foundation, NVSQ, RAND, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, and Southern Economic Journal.

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