Sitemap
A list of all the posts and pages found on the site. For you robots out there, there is an XML version available for digesting as well.
Pages
Posts
Future Blog Post
Published:
This post will show up by default. To disable scheduling of future posts, edit config.yml and set future: false.
Blog Post number 4
Published:
This is a sample blog post. Lorem ipsum I can’t remember the rest of lorem ipsum and don’t have an internet connection right now. Testing testing testing this blog post. Blog posts are cool.
Blog Post number 3
Published:
This is a sample blog post. Lorem ipsum I can’t remember the rest of lorem ipsum and don’t have an internet connection right now. Testing testing testing this blog post. Blog posts are cool.
Blog Post number 2
Published:
This is a sample blog post. Lorem ipsum I can’t remember the rest of lorem ipsum and don’t have an internet connection right now. Testing testing testing this blog post. Blog posts are cool.
Blog Post number 1
Published:
This is a sample blog post. Lorem ipsum I can’t remember the rest of lorem ipsum and don’t have an internet connection right now. Testing testing testing this blog post. Blog posts are cool.
portfolio
Portfolio item number 1
Short description of portfolio item number 1
Portfolio item number 2
Short description of portfolio item number 2
publications
Housing Consumption and the Cost of Remote Work
This paper estimates housing choice differences between households with and without remote workers. Prior to the pandemic, the expenditure share on housing was more than seven percent higher for remote households compared to similar non-remote households in the same commuting zone. Remote households’ higher housing expenditures arise from larger dwellings (more rooms) and a higher price per room. Pre-COVID, households with remote workers were actually located in areas with above-average housing costs, and sorting within-commuting zone to suburban or rural areas was not economically meaningful. Using the pre-COVID distribution of locations, we estimate how much additional pre-tax income would be necessary to compensate non-remote households for extra housing expenses arising from remote work in the absence of geographic mobility, and we compare this compensation to commercial office rents in major metro areas.
Citation: Stanton, Christopher T., and Pratyush Tiwari (2021). Housing consumption and the Cost of Remote Work. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series No. w28483
Ethnicity and Identity: Stability and Drivers
Generative AI and Coordination Dynamics in Open Source Software
Revealing Zero-sum Thinking in the United Kingdom
Preferences over economic policies are conditioned by the extent to which individuals understand the world in zero-sum terms. Zero-sum thinking (ZST) is the belief that gains for one individual or group necessarily imply corresponding losses for others. We study the prevalence and triggers for ZST among the majority White British population in the UK, using a survey experiment administered to 3200 individuals, fielded in the run up to the high-stakes UK General Election in July 2024. Our experiment presents respondents with qualitative narratives either about the economic success or disadvantage of specific minority groups. We measure how each narrative shifts perceptions of the economic circumstances of minorities, and of the White British ingroup. By examining treatment effects of the narratives on perceptions of the ingroup, our design provides a novel revealed measure of ZST. Estimating conditional average treatment effects, we document that just over 20% of respondents are revealed as ZSTs from either narrative. However, each narrative reveals a distinct type of zero-sum thinker. Those identified through the narrative of minority success hold similar policy preferences to non-ZSTs. In contrast, those identified through the narrative of minority disadvantage are significantly less supportive of pro-poor policies in general, and policies to reduce ethnic inequalities in particular. We show this is not because ZSTs and non-ZSTs differ in how they perceive the economic outcomes of minorities, opportunities available to minorities, or root causes of minority disadvantage. Our results illustrate how ZST can be triggered by light-touch narratives typical of transient information exposure in daily life, but consequences for redistributive preferences depend on the nature of narratives individuals are exposed to.
Citation: Platt, Lucinda, Imran Rasul and Pratyush Tiwari (2026). Revealing Zero-sum Thinking in the United Kingdom.
talks
Talk 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
Published:
This is a description of your talk, which is a markdown file that can be all markdown-ified like any other post. Yay markdown!
Conference Proceeding talk 3 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
Published:
This is a description of your conference proceedings talk, note the different field in type. You can put anything in this field.
teaching
Teaching experience 1
Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014
This is a description of a teaching experience. You can use markdown like any other post.
Teaching experience 2
Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015
This is a description of a teaching experience. You can use markdown like any other post.