Harvard Economics Graduate Student

Publications and Working Papers - Ricardo Perez-Truglia

Private provision of public goods

Perez-Truglia, R. and Cruces, G. (2013), "Social Effects in Campaign Contributions: Evidence from a Field Experiment in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election" [Job Market Paper] [Preliminary Abstract]

Bottan, N. and Perez-Truglia, R. (2012), "Religious Congregations, Charitable Giving and Social Services: An Event-Study Analysis of the U.S. Catholic-Clergy Sexual Abuse Scandals" [Working Paper] [Videos about the scandals] [Media]

Redistributive Policies

Cruces, G.; Perez-Truglia, R. and Tetaz, Martin (2013), "Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey Experiment," Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 98, pp. 100-112.
[Published Version] [Working Paper Version] [Media]

Hedonic Adaptation

Perez-Truglia, R. (2012), "On the causes and consequences of Hedonic Adaptation," Journal of Economic Psychology, Vol. 33,  pp. 1182-1192. [Published Version] [Working Paper Version]

Bottan, N. and Perez-Truglia, R. (2011), "Deconstructing the Hedonic Treadmill," Journal of Socio-Economics, Vol. 40, pp. 224-236. [Published Version] [Working Paper Version]

Conspicuous Consumption

Perez-Truglia, R. (2013), "A Test of the Conspicuous-Consumption Model Using Subjective Well-Being Data" Journal of Socio-Economics, forthcoming [Published Version] [Working Paper Version]

Perez-Truglia, R. (2010), "Measuring the Market Value of Non-Market Goods: the Case of Conspicuous Consumption"
[Working Paper] [Code and Data] [Media]

Education Policy

Galiani, S. and Perez-Truglia, R. (2013), "School Management in Developing Countries," in P. Glewwe (Ed.), Education Policy in Developing Countries. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Order Book] [Working Paper Version]

Other

Perez-Truglia, R. (2012), "Measuring Trust with Market Data" [Working Paper]

Perez-Truglia, R. (2011), "A Samuelsonian Validation Test for Happiness Data" [Working Paper]

Di Tella, R. and Perez-Truglia, R. (2010), "Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs About Others," NBER Working Paper No. 16645. [NBER Version] [Media]

Lecture Notes on Applied Econometrics using Stata [Notes] [Databases]