Selected Bibliography for Sendhil Mullainathan
Roman Family University Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science
Published Works
"A 680,000-Person Megastudy of Nudges to Encourage Vaccination in Pharmacies." Katherine L. Milkman, Linnea Gandhi, Mitesh S. Patel, Heather N. Graci, Dena M. Gromet, Hung Ho, Joseph S. Kay, Timothy W. Lee, Jake Rothschild, Jonathan E. Bogard, Ilana Brody, Christopher F. Chabris, Edward Chang, Gretchen B. Chapman, Jennifer E. Dannals, Noah J. Goldstein, Amir Goren, Hal Hershfield, Alex Hirsch, Jillian Hmurovic, Samantha Horn, Dean S. Karlan, Ariella S. Kristal, Cait Lamberton, Michelle N. Meyer, Allison H. Oakes, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Maheen Shermohammed, Joachim Talloen, Caleb Warren, Ashley Whillans, Kuldeep N. Yadav, Julian J. Zlatev, Ron Berman, Chalanda N. Evans, Rahul Ladhania, Jens Ludwig, Nina Mazar, Sendhil Mullainathan, Christopher K. Snider, Jann Spiess, Eli Tsukayama, Lyle Ungar, Christophe Van den Bulte, Kevin G. Volpp and Angela L. Duckworth; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022, 119(6), pp. e2115126119.
"Measuring the Completeness of Economic Models." Drew Fudenberg, Jon Kleinberg, Annie Liang and Sendhil Mullainathan; Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130(4), pp. 956-90.
"Diagnosing Physician Error: A Machine Learning Approach to Low-Value Health Care*." Sendhil Mullainathan and Ziad Obermeyer; The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022, 137(2), pp. 679-727.
"Solving Medicine’s Data Bottleneck: Nightingale Open Science." Sendhil Mullainathan and Ziad Obermeyer; Nature Medicine, 2022, 28(5), pp. 897-99.
"Fragile Algorithms and Fallible Decision-Makers: Lessons from the Justice System." Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan; Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2021, 35(4), pp. 71-96.
"An Algorithmic Approach to Reducing Unexplained Pain Disparities in Underserved Populations." Emma Pierson, David M. Cutler, Jure Leskovec, Sendhil Mullainathan and Ziad Obermeyer; Nature Medicine, 2021, 27(1), pp. 136-40.
"Integrating Explanation and Prediction in Computational Social Science." Jake M. Hofman, Duncan J. Watts, Susan Athey, Filiz Garip, Thomas L. Griffiths, Jon Kleinberg, Helen Margetts, Sendhil Mullainathan, Matthew J. Salganik, Simine Vazire, Alessandro Vespignani and Tal Yarkoni; Nature, 2021, 595(7866), pp. 181-88.
"Megastudies Improve the Impact of Applied Behavioural Science." Katherine L. Milkman, Dena Gromet, Hung Ho, Joseph S. Kay, Timothy W. Lee, Pepi Pandiloski, Yeji Park, Aneesh Rai, Max Bazerman, John Beshears, Lauri Bonacorsi, Colin Camerer, Edward Chang, Gretchen Chapman, Robert Cialdini, Hengchen Dai, Lauren Eskreis-Winkler, Ayelet Fishbach, James J. Gross, Samantha Horn, Alexa Hubbard, Steven J. Jones, Dean Karlan, Tim Kautz, Erika Kirgios, Joowon Klusowski, Ariella Kristal, Rahul Ladhania, George Loewenstein, Jens Ludwig, Barbara Mellers, Sendhil Mullainathan, Silvia Saccardo, Jann Spiess, Gaurav Suri, Joachim H. Talloen, Jamie Taxer, Yaacov Trope, Lyle Ungar, Kevin G. Volpp, Ashley Whillans, Jonathan Zinman and Angela L. Duckworth; Nature, 2021, 600(7889), pp. 478-83.
"Characterizing the Value of Information in Medical Notes," Chao-Chun Hsu, Shantanu Karnwal, Sendhil Mullainathan, Ziad Obermeyer and Chenhao Tan, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020 Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020, pp. 2062-72.
"Characterizing the Value of Information in Medical Notes," Chao-Chun Hsu, Shantanu Karnwal, Sendhil Mullainathan, Ziad Obermeyer and Chenhao Tan, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020, pp. 2062-72.
"Quantifying the Causal Effects of Conversational Tendencies." Justine Zhang, Sendhil Mullainathan and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil; Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2020, 4(CSCW2).
"Allocation of COVID-19 Relief Funding to Disproportionately Black Counties." Pragya Kakani, Amitabh Chandra, Sendhil Mullainathan and Ziad Obermeyer; JAMA, 2020, 324(10), pp. 1000-03.
"Scarcity and Cognitive Function around Payday: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis." Anandi Mani, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir and Jiaying Zhao; Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 2020, 5(4), pp. 365-76.
"Algorithms as Discrimination Detectors." Jon Kleinberg, Jens Ludwig, Sendhil Mullainathan and Cass R. Sunstein; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020, 117(48), pp. 30096-100.
"Simplicity Creates Inequity: Implications for Fairness, Stereotypes, and Interpretability," Jon Kleinberg and Sendhil Mullainathan, Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation Association for Computing Machinery, 2019, pp. 807-08.
"Simplicity Creates Inequity: Implications for Fairness, Stereotypes, and Interpretability," Jon Kleinberg and Sendhil Mullainathan, Association for Computing Machinery, 2019, pp. 807�08.
"Direct Uncertainty Prediction for Medical Second Opinions," Maithra Raghu, Katy Blumer, Rory Sayres, Ziad Obermeyer, Bobby Kleinberg, Sendhil Mullainathan and Jon Kleinberg, Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning Editor, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research: PMLR, 2019 of Conference, pp. Pages.
"Discriminative Regularization for Latent Variable Models with Applications to Electrocardiography," Andrew Miller, Ziad Obermeyer, John Cunningham and Sendhil Mullainathan, Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning Editor, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research: PMLR, 2019 of Conference, pp. Pages.
"Making Sense of Recommendations." Michael Yeomans, Anuj Shah, Sendhil Mullainathan and Jon Kleinberg; Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2019, 32(4), pp. 403-14.
"Dissecting Racial Bias in an Algorithm Used to Manage the Health of Populations." Ziad Obermeyer, Brian Powers, Christine Vogeli and Sendhil Mullainathan; Science, 2019, 366(6464), pp. 447-53.
"An Exercise in Self-Replication: Replicating Shah, Mullainathan, and Shafir (2012)." Anuj K. Shah, Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir; Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 75, pp. 102127.
"Money in the Mental Lives of the Poor." Anuj K. Shah, Jiaying Zhao, Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir; Social Cognition, 2018, 36(1), pp. 4-19.
"Predictive Modeling of U.S. Health Care Spending in Late Life." Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Sendhil Mullainathan and Ziad Obermeyer; Science, 2018, 360(6396), pp. 1462-65.
"An Opportunity for Self-Replication." Anuj K. Shah, Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir; Nature Human Behaviour, 2018, 2(9), pp. 603-03.
"Human Decisions and Machine Predictions." Jon Kleinberg, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Jure Leskovec, Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan; Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018, 133(1), pp. 237-93.
"Algorithmic Fairness." Jon Kleinberg, Jens Ludwig, Sendhil Mullainathan and Ashesh Rambachan; AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108, pp. 22-27.
"The Theory Is Predictive, but Is It Complete? An Application to Human Perception of Randomness," Jon Kleinberg, Annie Liang and Sendhil Mullainathan, Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation Association for Computing Machinery, 2017, pp. 125-26.
"Comparison-Based Choices," Jon Kleinberg, Sendhil Mullainathan and Johan Ugander, Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation Association for Computing Machinery, 2017, pp. 127-44.
"The Selective Labels Problem: Evaluating Algorithmic Predictions in the Presence of Unobservables," Himabindu Lakkaraju, Jon Kleinberg, Jure Leskovec, Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan, Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Association for Computing Machinery, 2017, pp. 275-84.
"Inherent Trade-Offs in the Fair Determination of Risk Scores," Jon Kleinberg, Sendhil Mullainathan and Manish Raghavan, 8th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2017) C. H. Papadimitriou, Schloss Dagstuhl–Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, 2017, pp. 43:1-43:23.
"Individual Differences in Normal Body Temperature: Longitudinal Big Data Analysis of Patient Records." Ziad Obermeyer, Jasmeet K. Samra and Sendhil Mullainathan; BMJ, 2017, 359, pp. j5468.
"Thinking, Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago." Sara B. Heller, Anuj K. Shah, Jonathan Guryan, Jens Ludwig, Sendhil Mullainathan and Harold A. Pollack; Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017, 132(1), pp. 1-54.
"Does Machine Learning Automate Moral Hazard and Error?" Sendhil Mullainathan and Ziad Obermeyer; American Economic Review, 2017, 107(5), pp. 476-80.
"Machine Learning: An Applied Econometric Approach." Sendhil Mullainathan and Jann Spiess; Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2017, 31(2), pp. 87-106.
"Assessing Human Error against a Benchmark of Perfection," Ashton Anderson, Jon Kleinberg and Sendhil Mullainathan, KDD '16: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Association for Computing Machinery, 2016, pp. 705-14.
"Algorithms Need Managers, Too." Michael Luca, Jon Kleinberg and Sendhil Mullainathan; Harvard Business Review, 2016, 94(1), pp. 96-101.
"Productivity and Selection of Human Capital with Machine Learning." Aaron Chalfin, Oren Danieli, Andrew Hillis, Zubin Jelveh, Michael Luca, Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan; American Economic Review, 2016, 106(5), pp. 124-27.
"Getting to the Top of Mind: How Reminders Increase Saving." Dean Karlan, Margaret McConnell, Sendhil Mullainathan and Jonathan Zinman; Management Science, 2016, 62(12), pp. 3393-411.
"The Psychological Lives of the Poor." Frank Schilbach, Heather Schofield and Sendhil Mullainathan; American Economic Review, 2016, 106(5), pp. 435-40.
"Behavioral Economics," Sendhil Mullainathan and Richard H. Thaler, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition). J. D. Wright, Oxford: Elsevier, 2015, pp. 437-42.
"Scarcity Frames Value." Anuj K. Shah, Eldar Shafir and Sendhil Mullainathan; Psychological Science, 2015, 26(4), pp. 402-12.
"Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance." Katherine Baicker, Sendhil Mullainathan and Joshua Schwartzstein; Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, 130(4), pp. 1623-67.
"Self-Control at Work." Supreet Kaur, Michael Kremer and Sendhil Mullainathan; Journal of Political Economy, 2015, 123(6), pp. 1227-77.
"Prediction Policy Problems." Jon Kleinberg, Jens Ludwig, Sendhil Mullainathan and Ziad Obermeyer; American Economic Review, 2015, 105(5), pp. 491-95.
"Energy Policy with Externalities and Internalities." Hunt Allcott, Sendhil Mullainathan and Dmitry Taubinsky; Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 112, pp. 72-88.
"Behavioral Design: A New Approach to Development Policy." Saugato Datta and Sendhil Mullainathan; Review of Income and Wealth, 2014, 60(1), pp. 7-35.
"Learning through Noticing: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment." Rema Hanna, Sendhil Mullainathan and Joshua Schwartzstein; Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, 129(3), pp. 1311-53.
"Behaviorally Informed Regulation," Michael S. Barr and Sendhil Mullainathan, in The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy. E. Shafir, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013, pp. 440-62.
"Decision Making and Policy in Contexts of Poverty," Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir, in The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy. E. Shafir, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013, pp. 281-98.
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir; New York: Henry Holt, Times Books, 2013.
"Targeting with Agents." Paul Niehaus, Antonia Atanassova, Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan; American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2013, 5(1), pp. 138-206.
"Social Benefit Payments and Acute Injury among Low-Income Mothers." Donald A. Redelmeier, William K. Chan, Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir; Open Medicine, 2012, 6(3), pp. e101-8.
"Corruption," Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna and Sendhil Mullainathan, in The Handbook of Organizational Economics. R. S. Gibbons and J. Roberts, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, pp. 1109 - 47.
"Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race?" David S. Abrams, Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan; Journal of Legal Studies, 2012, 41(2), pp. 347-84.
"Notes on Behavioral Economics and Labor Market Policy." Linda Babcock, William J. Congdon, Lawrence F. Katz and Sendhil Mullainathan; IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2012, 1.
"Comparison Friction: Experimental Evidence from Medicare Drug Plans." Jeffrey R. Kling, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, Lee C. Vermeulen and Marian V. Wrobel; Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2012, 127(1), pp. 199-235.
"A Reduced-Form Approach to Behavioral Public Finance." Sendhil Mullainathan, Joshua Schwartzstein and William J. Congdon; Annual Review of Economics, 2012, 4(1), pp. 511-40.
"Some Consequences of Having Too Little." Anuj K. Shah, Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir; Science, 2012, 338(6107), pp. 682-85.
"Distraction and Incentives," Abhijit V. Banerjee and Sendhil Mullainathan, in Dimensions of Economic Theory and Policy: Essays for Anjan Mukherji. K. G. Dastidar, H. Mukhopadhyay and U. B. Sinha, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 179–90.
Policy and Choice: Public Finance through the Lens of Behavioral Economics William J. Congdon, Jeffrey R. Kling and Sendhil Mullainathan; Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2011.
"Helping Consumers Know Themselves." Emir Kamenica, Sendhil Mullainathan and Richard Thaler; American Economic Review, 2011, 101(3), pp. 417-22.
"Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations." Jens Ludwig, Jeffrey R. Kling and Sendhil Mullainathan; Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2011, 25(3), pp. 17-38.
"Affirmative Action in Education: Evidence from Engineering College Admissions in India." Marianne Bertrand, Rema Hanna and Sendhil Mullainathan; Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94(1-2), pp. 16-29.
"What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment*." Marianne Bertrand, Dean Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir and Jonathan Zinman; Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2010, 125(1), pp. 263-305.
"Self-Control and the Development of Work Arrangements." Supreet Kaur, Michael Kremer and Sendhil Mullainathan; American Economic Review, 2010, 100(2), pp. 624-28.
"Labor Market Discrimination in Delhi: Evidence from a Field Experiment." Abhijit Banerjee, Marianne Bertrand, Saugato Datta and Sendhil Mullainathan; Journal of Comparative Economics, 2009, 37(1), pp. 14-27.
"Behavioral Economics and Tax Policy." William J. Congdon, Jeffrey R. Kling and Sendhil Mullainathan; National Tax Journal, 2009, 62(3), pp. 375-86.
"Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes." Sendhil Mullainathan and Ebonya Washington; American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2009, 1(1), pp. 86-111.
"Limited Attention and Income Distribution." Abhijit V. Banerjee and Sendhil Mullainathan; American Economic Review, 2008, 98(2), pp. 489-93.
"Petty Corruption in Public Services: Driving Licenses in Delhi," Marianne Bertrand, Simeon Djankov, Rema Hanna and Sendhil Mullainathan, in Global Corruption Report 2008. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 342-44.
"Why Don't People Insure Late-Life Consumption? A Framing Explanation of the under-Annuitization Puzzle." Jeffrey R. Brown, Jeffrey R. Kling, Sendhil Mullainathan and Marian V. Wrobel; American Economic Review, 2008, 98(2), pp. 304-09.
"Coarse Thinking and Persuasion." Sendhil Mullainathan, Joshua Schwartzstein and Andrei Shleifer; Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008, 123(2), pp. 577-619.
Marianne Bertrand, Simeon Djankov, Rema Hanna and Sendhil Mullainathan. "Corruption in the Driving Licensing Process in Delhi." Economic and Political Weekly, February 2, 2008, 71-76.
"Obtaining a Driver's License in India: An Experimental Approach to Studying Corruption." Marianne Bertrand, Simeon Djankov, Rema Hanna and Sendhil Mullainathan; Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122(4), pp. 1639-76.
"Behavioral Economics and Marketing in Aid of Decision Making among the Poor." Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir; Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 2006, 25(1), pp. 8-23.
"Psychology, Behavioral Economics, and Public Policy." On Amir, Dan Ariely, Alan Cooke, David Dunning, Nicholas Epley, Uri Gneezy, Botond Koszegi, Donald Lichtenstein, Nina Mazar, Sendhil Mullainathan, Drazen Prelec, Eldar Shafir and Jose Silva; Marketing Letters, 2005, 16(3 - 4), pp. 443-54.
"Implicit Discrimination." Marianne Bertrand, Dolly Chugh and Sendhil Mullainathan; American Economic Review, 2005, 95(2), pp. 94-98.
"Do Cigarette Taxes Make Smokers Happier?" Jonathan H. Gruber and Sendhil Mullainathan; B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2005, 5(1), pp. 1-43.
"The Market for News." Sendhil Mullainathan and Andrei Shleifer; American Economic Review, 2005, 95(4), pp. 1031-53.
"How Much Should We Trust Differences-in-Differences Estimates?" Marianne Bertrand, Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan; Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004, 119(1), pp. 249-75.
"Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination." Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan; American Economic Review, 2004, 94(4), pp. 991.
"A Behavioral Economics View of Poverty." Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir; American Economic Review, 2004, 94(2), pp. 419.
"A Behavioral-Economics View of Poverty." Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir; American Economic Review, 2004, 94(2), pp. 419-23.
"Pyramids." Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan; Journal of the European Economic Association, 2003, 1(2-3), pp. 478-83.
"Enjoying the Quiet Life? Corporate Governance and Managerial Preferences." Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan; Journal of Political Economy, 2003, 111(5), pp. 1043-75.
"Public Policy and Extended Families: Evidence from Pensions in South Africa." Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan and Douglas Miller; World Bank Economic Review, 2003, 17(1), pp. 27-50.
"Ferreting out Tunneling: An Application to Indian Business Groups." Marianne Bertrand, Paras Mehta and Sendhil Mullainathan; Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2002, 117(1), pp. 121-48.
"A Memory-Based Model of Bounded Rationality." Sendhil Mullainathan; Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2002, 117(3), pp. 735-74.
"Are Ceos Rewarded for Luck? The Ones without Principles Are." Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan; Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2001, 116(3), pp. 901-32.
"Do People Mean What They Say? Implications for Subjective Survey Data." Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan; American Economic Review, 2001, 91(2), pp. 67-72.
"Do Firm Boundaries Matter?" Sendhil Mullainathan and David Scharfstein; American Economic Review, 2001, 91(2), pp. 195-99.
"Network Effects and Welfare Cultures." Marianne Bertrand, Erzo F. P. Luttmer and Sendhil Mullainathan; Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000, 115(3), pp. 1019-55.
"Agents with and without Principals." Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan; American Economic Review, 2000, 90(2), pp. 203-08.
"Is There Discretion in Wage Setting? A Test Using Takeover Legislation." Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan; RAND Journal of Economics, 1999, 30(3), pp. 535-54.
Essays in Applied Microeconomics; Sendhil Mullainathan; Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1998.