Publications
Empathic and Numerate Giving: The Joint Effects of Victim Images and Charity Evaluations” (with Robin Bergh (Harvard); Social Psychological and Personality Science, forthcoming. Pre-print (RG) | html slides (general project) – “o” for slide map
“Losing Face” with Thomas Gall, Southampton. Accepted for publication, Oxford Economic Papers (2018). pdf most recent version (includes appendices, extra notes and comments)| pdf UoE DP | Presentation slides
“Ex-ante Commitments to `Give if you Win’ Exceed Donations After a Win” (Previously “Giving and Probability”) with Gerhard Riener, Mannheim; and Christian Kellner, Bonn/Southampton. Forthcoming, Journal of Public Economics (2018). Pre-publication WP updated (2018) | slides (academic but short)
“The Economics of the Gift“ in: Gift giving and the “embedded” economy in the ancient world, edited by Filippo Carlà and Maja Gori, Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg, 2014, pp. 83-99.
“Does One Contribution Come at the Expense of Another? Empirical Evidence on Substitution between Charitable Donations”, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 11: Iss. 1 (Advances), Article 40. (2010) [Working paper here] [Supplementary Appendix here]
“Decomposing Desert and Tangibility Effects in a Charitable Giving Experiment” with Gerhard Riener. Experimental Economics, Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2012. pdf | Working paper version
“Anonymous Rituals” with David Hugh-Jones [Max Planck Institute for Economics, Jena, Germany]. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 81 (2012), pp. 478-489. pdf | Related cartoon
“Efficient Consumer Altruism and Fair Trade” with Joon Song [Essex]. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Volume 21
Number 1, Spring 2012.
pdf | presentation slides | teaching slides | Cartoon
“Reputation and Influence in Charitable Giving: An Experiment” with Gerhard Riener [Univ. of Jena, Germany]. Theory and Decision, Volume 72, Issue 2 (2012), Page 221-243. pdf | presentation slides
David Reinstein and Chris M. Snyder, ‘The Influence of Expert Reviews on Consumer Demand for Experience Goods: A Case Study of Movie Critics”, Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 53. No. 1, pp 27-51 (March 2005). Cartoon.
Working Papers
(for PDF’s click on links)
“Exclude the Bad Actors or Learn About the Group” with David Hugh-Jones. Pdf most recent version | Presentation slides | pdf Essex DP | Online appendix pdf (older version)
“Listen to the Market, Hear the Best Policy Decision, but Don’t Always Choose it” with Joon Song, SKKU. PDF most recent version | pdf UoE DP | Online Appendix pdf
“Substitution Among Charitable Contributions: An Experimental Study.” Presentation slides | Wave 1 screenshots | PDF (updated 2012)
“Worth 1000 Words: The effect of social cues on a fundraising campaign in a government agency. A field experiment” with Michael Sanders, Harvard-JFK and Alex Tupper. pdf
The Government May Want to Encourage Price Discrimination by Income. Discussion paper | Simple version
Work in Progress
“The Returns to Higher Education in the Netherlands: Estimates Based on Randomized Assignment” (With Mathias Parey, Essex)
“Public and Private Giving to Natural Disasters; Evidence from Natural Shocks“
“Do piece-rate incentives really affect real-effort in the lab?” (ESSExLab experiment)
Essays for popular readers, plain language abstracts, outreach
Venn diagram of research: By TOPIC. By METHODS used. Discussion. Chart creation site.
Research “map” (condensed) (expanded)
Early policy essays
On fiscal and diplomatic policy and the nonprofit sector (Reinstein, 1986)
So many interesting topics. What is this about: “Income-based Price Discrimination”
See https://theconversation.com/should-we-help-companies-tailor-prices-to-your-wage-packet-47719 for a simple account