Leonardo Bursztyn

University of Chicago - Department of Economics

1126 E. 59th St

Chicago, IL 60637

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National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

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Misinformation During a Pandemic

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2020-44
Number of pages: 114 Posted: 21 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2020
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Harvard University, Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Faculty of Social Studies, Department of Economics, Students and University of Zurich
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Media, Misinformation, Health, Coronavirus

Misinformation During a Pandemic

NBER Working Paper No. w27417
Number of pages: 114 Posted: 22 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2023
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Harvard University, Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Faculty of Social Studies, Department of Economics, Students and University of Zurich
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When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No 2023-131
Number of pages: 111 Posted: 10 Oct 2023
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, Bocconi University and University of Cologne
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Welfare, Consumption Spillovers, Collective Trap, Coordination, Product Market Traps, Social Media

The Immigrant Next Door: Long-Term Contact, Generosity, and Prejudice

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2021-16
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 09 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2022
Leonardo Bursztyn, Thomas Chaney, Tarek A. Hassan and Aakash Rao
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, SciencesPo - Sciences Po - Department of Economics, Boston University and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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contact, attitudes, immigration, prejudice

The Immigrant Next Door: Long-Term Contact, Generosity, and Prejudice

NBER Working Paper No. w28448
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 08 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2023
Leonardo Bursztyn, Thomas Chaney, Tarek A. Hassan and Aakaash Rao
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, SciencesPo - Sciences Po - Department of Economics, Boston University and Harvard University, Department of Economics
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How Are Gender Norms Perceived?

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2023-33
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 22 Mar 2023
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics - Department of Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics - Department of Economics, Stanford University and University of Zurich
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social norms, misperceptions, gender

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Misperceptions About Others

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 14, pp. 425-452, 2022
Posted: 31 Aug 2022
Leonardo Bursztyn and David Y. Yang
University of Chicago - Department of Economics and Harvard University

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Misperceptions About Others

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2021-100
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 27 Aug 2021
Leonardo Bursztyn and David Y. Yang
University of Chicago - Department of Economics and Harvard University
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Misperceptions About Others

NBER Working Paper No. w29168
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 23 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2023
Leonardo Bursztyn and David Y. Yang
University of Chicago - Department of Economics and Harvard University
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Killer Incentives: Status Competition and Pilot Performance During World War Ii

NBER Working Paper No. w22992
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 03 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2023
Philipp Ager, Leonardo Bursztyn and Hans-Joachim Voth
University of Southern Denmark - Department of Business and Economics, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and University of Zurich - UBS International Center of Economics in Society
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Social Media and Xenophobia: Evidence from Russia

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2019-145
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 27 Dec 2019
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, New Economic SchoolInstitute of Political Economy and Governance and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE)
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Social Media and Xenophobia: Evidence from Russia

NBER Working Paper No. w26567
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 24 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2023
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, New Economic SchoolInstitute of Political Economy and Governance and Institute for Political Economy and Governance, Barcelona
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Moral Incentives in Credit Card Debt Repayment: Evidence from a Field Experiment

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2018-55
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 30 Aug 2018
Leonardo Bursztyn, Stefano Fiorin, Daniel Gottlieb and Martin Kanz
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - UC San Diego, Washington University in St. Louis and World Bank
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Morality, Moral Suasion, Debt

Moral Incentives in Credit Card Debt Repayment: Evidence from a Field Experiment

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2018-55
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 01 Aug 2019
Leonardo Bursztyn, Stefano Fiorin, Daniel Gottlieb and Martin Kanz
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - UC San Diego, Washington University in St. Louis and World Bank
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Morality, Moral Suasion, Debt

Status Goods: Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8064
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 18 May 2017 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2018
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - UC San Diego, World Bank and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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Primary Metals, Inequality, Private Sector Economics, Marketing, Private Sector Development Law, Economic Growth, Industrial Economics, Economic Theory & Research

Status Goods: Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards

NBER Working Paper No. w23414
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 24 May 2017 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2023
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - UC San Diego, World Bank and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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Disguising Prejudice: Popular Rationales as Excuses for Intolerant Expression

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2020-73
Number of pages: 122 Posted: 02 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2020
Leonardo Bursztyn, Ingar Haaland, Aakaash Rao and Christopher Roth
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, University of Bergen, Harvard University, Department of Economics and University of Warwick, Faculty of Social Studies, Department of Economics, Students
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Social image; excuses; persuasion; media; propaganda; political attitudes

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Cool to Be Smart or Smart to Be Cool? Understanding Peer Pressure in Education

NBER Working Paper No. w23020
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 11 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 27 May 2023
Leonardo Bursztyn, Georgy Egorov and Robert Jensen
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Misperceived Social Norms: Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia

Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics Working Paper No. 2018-42
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 25 Jun 2018
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and University of Zurich
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social norms, female labor force participation, Saudi Arabia

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How are Gender Norms Perceived?

NHH Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper No. 05/2023
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 22 Mar 2023
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics - Department of Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics - Department of Economics, Stanford University and University of Zurich
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Social norms, misperceptions, gender

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From Extreme to Mainstream: How Social Norms Unravel

NBER Working Paper No. w23415
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 24 May 2017 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2023
Leonardo Bursztyn, Georgy Egorov and Stefano Fiorin
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - UC San Diego
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Misperceived Social Norms: Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia

NBER Working Paper No. w24736
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 25 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2023
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and University of Zurich
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Identifying the Effect of Election Closeness on Voter Turnout: Evidence from Swiss Referenda

NBER Working Paper No. w23490
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 13 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2023
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), University of Lugano, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business and London School of Economics
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'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments

NBER Working Paper No. w23043
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 17 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2022
Leonardo Bursztyn, Thomas Fujiwara and Amanda Pallais
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Princeton University and Harvard University
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Social Image and Economic Behavior in the Field: Identifying, Understanding and Shaping Social Pressure

NBER Working Paper No. w23013
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 03 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 20 May 2023
Leonardo Bursztyn and Robert Jensen
University of Chicago - Department of Economics and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Social Image and Economic Behavior in the Field: Identifying, Understanding, and Shaping Social Pressure

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 9, pp. 131-153, 2017
Posted: 14 Aug 2017
Leonardo Bursztyn and Robert Jensen
University of Chicago - Department of Economics and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

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Political Adverse Selection

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2022-87
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 29 Jun 2022
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business, Harvard University, Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and London School of Economics
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Polarization and Public Policy: Political Adverse Selection Under Obamacare

NBER Working Paper No. w30214
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 04 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2023
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business, Harvard University, Department of Economics, Columbia University and London School of Economics
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Disguising Prejudice: Popular Rationales as Excuses for Intolerant Expression

NBER Working Paper No. w27288
Number of pages: 122 Posted: 02 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2023
Leonardo Bursztyn, Ingar Haaland, Aakaash Rao and Christopher Roth
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, University of Bergen, Harvard University, Department of Economics and University of Warwick, Faculty of Social Studies, Department of Economics, Students
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Justifying Dissent

NBER Working Paper No. w29730
Number of pages: 156 Posted: 07 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2023
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, University of Bergen, Harvard University, Department of Economics and University of Warwick, Faculty of Social Studies, Department of Economics, Students
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