Charles Sprenger

Education

Ph.D., Economics. 2007-2011. University of California, San Diego.

M.Sc., Economics. 2004-2005. University College London.

B.A., Economics. 1999-2002. Stanford University.

Research

Publications and Forthcoming Papers

1. ‘Violence and Risk Preferences: Artefactual and Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan’ (with Michael Callen, Mohammad Isaqzadeh, and James Long), Accepted, American Economic Review.

2. ‘Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences’ (with James Andreoni). American Economic Review, 2012, 102(7), 3357-3376.

3. ‘Estimating Time Preferences from Convex Budgets’ (with James Andreoni). American Economic Review, 2012, 102(7), 3333-3356.

4. ‘Discounting Financial Literacy: Time Preferences and Participation in Financial Education Programs’ (with Stephan Meier), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Forthcoming.

5. ‘Time Discounting Predicts Creditworthiness’ (with Stephan Meier), Psychological Science, 2012, 23(1), 56-58.

6. ‘Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing’ (with Stephan Meier), American Economic Journal - Applied Economics, 2010, 2(1), 193-210.

7. ‘Credit Card Debt and Payment Use’ (with Joanna Stavins). Financial Services Review, 2010, 19(1), 17-36.

Works in Progress

1. ‘Working Over Time: Dynamic Inconsistency in Real Effort Tasks’ (with Ned Augenblick and Muriel Niederle), Revise and Resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics.

2. ‘An Endowment Effect for Risk: Experimental Tests of Stochastic Reference Points,’ Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy.

3. ‘Stability of Time Preferences’ (with Stephan Meier), Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economics and Statistics.

4. ‘The Limits of Expectations-Based Reference Dependence’ (with Uri Gneezy, Lorenz Goette, and Florian Zimmermann)

5. ‘Uncertainty Equivalents: Testing the Limits of the Independence Axiom (with James Andreoni), NBER w17342.