Robert

Hammond

Professor of Economics

Rick and Elaine Horsley Faculty Fellow

Economics, Finance, & Legal Studies

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Research Interests

Education

Ph.D., Economics, Vanderbilt University, 2008

Selected Publications

“The Attraction of Magnet Schools: Evidence from Embedded Lotteries in School Assignment.” (With U. Dur, M. Lenard, M. Morrill, T. Morrill, and C. Paeplow.) Economics of Education Review. Aug 2025.

“Designing School Choice Mechanisms: A Structural Model and Demand Estimation.” (With Zhiyi Xu.) Economic Inquiry. April 2024.

“Reassignment Policies and School Stratification.” (With Sui Wu.) Educational Policy. September 2022.

“Sequential School Choice: Theory and Evidence from the Field and Lab.” (With Umut Dur and Onur Kesten.) Journal of Economic Theory. December 2021.

“The Secure Boston Mechanism: Theory and Experiments.” (With Umut Dur and Thayer Morrill.) Experimental Economics. December 2019.

“Enhancing Effort Supply with Prize-Augmenting Entry Fees: Theory and Experiments.” (With Bin Liu, Jingfeng Lu, and Yohanes Riyanto.) International Economic Review. August 2019.

“Informing Retirement Savings Decisions: A Field Experiment on Supplemental Plans. (With Robert Clark, Melinda Morrill, and Christelle Khalaf.) Economic Inquiry. January 2019.

“Identifying the Harm of Manipulable School-Choice Mechanisms.” (With Umut Dur and Thayer Morrill.) American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. February 2018.

“Profit Leak? Pre-Release File Sharing and the Music Industry.” Southern Economic Journal. October 2014.

“Quantifying Consumer Perception of a Financially Distressed Company.” Journal of Business & Economic Statistics. October 2013.

“A Structural Model of Competing Sellers: Auctions and Posted Prices.” European Economic Review. May 2013.

“Heterogeneity in Tournaments with Incomplete Information: An Experimental Analysis.” (With Xiaoyong Zheng.) International Journal of Industrial Organization. May 2013.

“Sudden Unintended Used-Price Deceleration? The 2009-2010 Toyota Recalls.” Journal of Economics & Management Strategy. Spring 2013.

“Comparing Revenue from Auctions and Posted Prices.” International Journal of Industrial Organization. January 2010.