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  • Press
    December 2012:
    Hastings and Shapiro's "Mental Accounting and Gasoline Consumption" featured in the December NBER Digest.
    Read more here.

    September 2012:
    Dr. Hastings named to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Academic Research Council. Read more here.

    Freakonomics discusses the Hastings, Neilson and Zimmerman working paper on school choice.

    Read more here.

    The Daily Caller highlights Hastings, Neilson and Zimmerman in their article on school choice successes.

    Read more here.

    Paul Krugman discusses the importance of Hastings and Shapiro for macroeconomic policy.

    Read more here.

  • Seminars
    June 2013:
    US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Washington D.C.

    May 2013:
    NBER Education Economics Spring Meetings, Cambridge, MA Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse, France

    April 2013:
    US Department of Justice, Washington DC

    March 2013:
    UC Berkeley Behavioral Economics Seminar

    November 1-2, 2012:
    NBER Public Economics Program meetings in Cambridge, MA
  • New
    April 2013:
    New paper "Advertising, Reputation, and Environmental Stewardship: Evidence From the BP Oil Spill" with Lint Barrage and Eric Chyn. Read more here.

    April 2013:
    "Fungibility and Consumer Choice: Evidence from Commodity Price Shocks" with Jesse Shapiro. Forthcoming, QJE. Read more here.

    March 2013:
    New paper "Advertising and Competition in Privatized Social Security: The Case of Mexico" with Ali Hortaçsu and Chad Syverson. Read more here.

    November 2012:
    New paper "Fettered Consumers and Sophisticated Firms: Evidence from Mexico's Privatized Social Security Market" with Fabian Duarte. Read more here.

    September 2012:
    New paper "Financial Literacy, Financial Education and Economic Outcomes" with Brigitte Madrian and Bill Skimmyhorn. Read more here.

    August 2012:
    New paper: "The Effect of School Choice on Intrinsic Motivation and Academic Outcomes" with Christopher Neilson and Seth Zimmerman.

    Read more here.

  • Pipeline
    • “Impatience, Information and Investment Choice: Field Experimental Evidence in Mexico’s Privatized Social Security System.”
    • “The Effect of College Loans on College Achievement, Tuition Expenditures, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Chile” (with Christopher Neilson and Seth Zimmerman). Paper in progress.
    • “What’s Luck Got to Do With It? Returns to Skills, Colleges and Peers in Chile” (with Christopher Neilson and Seth Zimmerman)