Select Publications and Working Papers
"Effects of Enhanced Legal Aid in Child Welfare: Evidence from a Randomized Trial of Mi Abogado."
Cooper, Ryan, Joseph J. Doyle, and Andrés P. Hojman. American Economic Review. Forthcoming. NBER Working Paper 30974.
"From Coase to Culture: Visible Hands Build Equilibria."
Gibbons, Robert. Economica. Forthcoming.
"How do Digital Advertising Auctions Impact Product Prices?"
Bergemann, Dirk, Alessandro Bonatti, and Nicholas Wu. The Review of Economic Studies. Forthcoming. Extended Abstract (EC '23).
"Mean Reversion in Randomized Controlled Trials: Implications for Program Targeting and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects."
Alsan, Marcella, John Cawley, Joseph J. Doyle, and Nicholas Skelley. American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings. Forthcoming.
"Physician Group Influences on Treatment Intensity and Health: Evidence from Physician Switchers."
Doyle, Joseph J. and Becky Staiger. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Forthcoming. NBER Working Paper 29613.
"Using Machine Learning to Target Treatment: The Case of Household Energy Use."
Knittel, Christopher R., and Samuel Stolper. The Economic Journal. Forthcoming. NBER Working Paper.
"Measuring by Executive Order."
Topic: Economics
Cavallo, Alberto and Roberto Rigobon, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7322-25. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, October 2025. SSRN.
"Trade Sanctions."
Topic: Economics
Egorov, Konstantin, Vasily Korovkin, Alexey Makarin, and Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7331-25. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, August 2025.
Keywords: Supply Chain, International Trade, Russia-Ukraine War, Geoeconomics, Sanctions, Trade Sanctions, Export Controls
"Timing Sustainable Shareholder Proposals in Real Asset Investments."
van der Kroft, Bram, Juan Palacios, Roberto Rigobon, and Siqi Zheng, Working Paper. August 2025. SSRN.
Keywords: Corporate governance, Physical depreciation, Real assets, Socially responsible investing, ESG, CSR, Sustainable finance
"The Democratic Paradox in Large Language Models' Underestimation of Press Freedom."
Loaiza, Isabella, Roberto Vestrelli, Andrea Fronzetti Colladon, and Roberto Rigobon, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7323-25. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, June 2025.
Keywords: Large Language Models, Press Freedom, Differential Misalignment, Home Bias, Media Trust
"On the Importance of Assurance in Carbon Accounting."
Berg, Florian, Jaime Oliver Huidobro, and Roberto Rigobon, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6969-24. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, April 2025.
Keywords: Auditing, Carbon Emission Targets, Carbon Accounting
"Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning."
Jack, Kelsey, Seema Jayachandran, Namrata Kala, and Rohini Pande. AER: Insights Vol. 7, No. 1 (2025): 39-55. NBER Preprint. MIT Climate Portal.
"Organizing a Kingdom."
Topic: Economics
Angelucci, Charles, Simone Meraglia, and Nico Voigtländer (R&R at The Review of Economic Studies), MIT Sloan Working Paper 6950-23. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, March 2025.
Keywords: Administrations, Cities, Trade, Merchants, Parliament, Self-Governance, Institutions
"Multi-Project Collaborations."
Topic: Economics
Angelucci, Charles and Roi Orzach, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6951-23. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, February 2025. Online Appendix.
Keywords: Strategic Experimentation, Multi-Domain Experimentation, Relational Contracting
"The Supply of Forest-Based Co2 Removal."
Topic: Climate Change
Franklin Jr., Sergio L. and Robert S. Pindyck, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7239-25. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, January 2025.
Keywords: Economics, Forestation, Land Opportunity Cost, Feasible Forestation, CO2 Emissions, CO2 Removal, Net Emissions Amazon Rainforest, Atlantic Forest
"The EPOCH of AI: Human-Machine Complementarities at Work."
Topic: Artificial Intelligence
Loaiza, Isabella and Roberto Rigobon, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7236-24. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, December 2024.
Keywords: Future of Work, AI-Automation, AI-Augmentation, Technological Change, Labor
"Mechanizing Agriculture."
Caunedo, Julieta, and Namrata Kala, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6549-21. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, November 2024.
Keywords: Mechanization, Productivity, Span of Control, Contracting Frictions
"Job Scope and Motivation under Informal Incentives."
Topic: Economics
Angelucci, Charles and Roi Orzach, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6952-23. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, November 2024. SSRN.
Keywords: Organizations, Incentives, Relationship Scope
"Rebound Effect and Sustainable Digital Finance."
Rigobon, Roberto, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7237-24. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, November 2024.
"The Impact of Managerial Autonomy on Firm Outcomes."
Kala, Namrata. Econometrica Vol. 92, No. 6 (2024): 1777-1800. NBER Working Paper.