Vera L. te Velde
Research
Work in Progress
- Investing in self-image in order to persuade (with Stella Tan and Lionel Page)
- Willingness to send prosocial, but boastful, messages (with Stella Tan and Lionel Page)
- What accounts for greater generosity with time than money? (with Serena Huang and Marco Faravelli)
- Norm enforcement in coordination games (with Zachary Breig and Kate Green)
- Heterogeneous risk preferences in repeated gambles (with Lana Friesen)
Working Papers
- It's not (just) you, it's me: The role of context and personal favors in reciprocity (with Kieran Gibson and Antonio Rosato)
- The devil you know: How status quo bias can influence elections (with Joshua Huisman and Marco Faravelli)
- The threshold effect in votes for moral transgressions (with Andrea Robbett)
- Can chess players detect cheaters? An application of signal detection theory for experimental economists (with David Smerdon)
- Motivations for indirect reciprocity: Good deeds or good people? (with Lionel Page and Kieran Gibson)
- Assessing private solutions to collective action problems in a 34-nation study (by Eugene Malthouse and many co-authors)
- Surprising gifts (with Rosario Macera)
- Pay that pays: The sensitivity of reciprocity to social context in the workplace (with Rosario Macera)
Publications
- What drives voter turnout? Experimental insights on collectivism and probability weighting (with Marco Faravelli, Ben Gordon, and Joshua Huisman), forthcoming in Theory and Decision.
- Data: Replication data for: What drives voter turnout? Experimenta insights on collectivism and probability weighting, 2025, Harvard Dataverse.
- Conformity to descriptive norms (with Winnifred Louis), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, June 2022.
- Data: Replication data for: Conformity to descriptive norms, 2022, Harvard Dataverse.
- Heterogeneous norms: Social image and social pressure when people disagree, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, January 2022.
- Beliefs-based altruism as an alternative explanation for social signaling behaviors, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, August 2018.
- Data: Individual altruistic choice and attitude data from Amazon's Mechanical Turk, 2018, Data In Brief.
- "You've earned it: Combining field and lab experiments to estimate the impact of human capital on social preferences" (with Pamela Jakiela and Edward Miguel), Experimental Economics September 2015.
- Data: "Replication data for: You've Earned It: Estimating the Impact of Human Capital on Social Preferences", 2015, Harvard Dataverse.
- "Rethinking Reciprocity" (with Ulrike Malmendier and Roberto Weber), Annual Review of Economics August 2014.
- "Dynamic pricing with constant demand elasticity" (with Preston McAfee), Production and Operations Management July-August 2008.
- "Dynamic pricing in the airline industry" (with Preston McAfee), Handbook on Economics and Information Systems, Volume 1 2007.
- "An analysis of solar-cycle temporal relationships among activity indicators" (with Kurt Bachmann, Hossain Maymani, and Kirtan Nautiyal), Advances in Space Science 34(2), 2004.
Non-Academic Outlets
- We’re not as Grinchy as we think: how gift-giving is inspired by beliefs-based altruism, published in The Conversation. 18 December, 2018.