DEVIN G. POPE

Steven G Rothmeier Professor of Behavioral Science and Robert King Steel Faculty Fellow
5807 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637-1610
773.702.2297
devin.pope@chicagobooth.edu 

Devin Pope is the Steven G Rothmeier Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. Pope is a behavioral economist that researches a variety of topics at the intersection of economics and psychology. He has published work in top journals of economics (Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, etc.), general science (Science, Nature, etc.), and Management and Psychology (Psychological Science, Management Science, etc.). His research primarily uses observational data and studies how psychological biases play out in important economic markets.

Prior to joining Chicago Booth faculty in 2010, Pope was on the faculty at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned a PhD in economics from UC Berkeley in 2007 and a BA in economics from Brigham Young University in 2002. Pope also worked as an Amazon Scholar from 2019-2021 and is currently a co-editor at the American Economic Review.

CV PAPERS
Working Papers

Religious Worship Attendance in America: Evidence from Cellphone Data
Pope, Devin

Incentives to Vaccinate
Campos-Mercade, Pol, Armando Meier, Stephan Meier, Devin Pope, Florian Schneider, and Erik Wengstrom.

Is Mental Health Undervalued During Pregnancy?
Boone, Claire, Carla Colina, and Devin Pope

Medical Guidelines and Physician Behavior
Meier, Armando, Ziad Obermeyer, Devin Pope, and Kevin Volpp

Geographic Mobility in America: Evidence from Cell Phone Data
Chen, Keith and Devin Pope

Published & Forthcoming Papers

Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination
Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming. | Bohren, Aislinn, Kareem Haggag, Alex Imas, and Devin Pope

Left-Digit Bias at Lyft
Review of Economic Studies (2023) 90(6): 3186-3237, | List, John, Ian Muir, Devin Pope, and Gregory Sun

Motivating Vaccination with Financial Incentives
Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2023) 27(12): 1099-1101 | Campos-Mercade, Pol, Armando Meier, Devin Pope, and Florian Schneider

Financial Incentives for Vaccination Do Not Have Negative Unintended Consequences
Nature (2023) 613, 526–533 | Meier, Armando, Pol Campos-Mercade, Florian Schneider, Stephan Meier, Devin Pope, and Erik Wengstrom

Racial Disparities in Voting Wait Times: Evidence from Smartphone Data
The Review of Economics and Statistics (2022) 104(6): 1341–1350. | Chen, Keith, Kareem Haggag, Devin Pope, and Rhyne Rohla

Stability of Experimental Results: Forecasts and Evidence
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (2022) 14(3), 889-925. | DellaVigna, Stefano and Devin Pope

A Citywide Experiment Testing the Impact of Geographically Targeted, High-pay-off Vaccine Lotteries
Nature Human Behavior (2022) 6, 1515–1524.| Milkman, K.L., L. Gandhi, S. Ellis, H.Graci, D. Gromet, R. Mobarak, A. Buttenheim, A. Duckworth, D. Pope, A. Stanford, R. Thaler, and K. Volpp

Association between statewide financial incentive programs and COVID-19 vaccination rates
PLOS ONE (2022) 17(3): e0263425 | Thirumurthy, Harsha, Katherine Milkman, Kevin Volpp, Alison Buttenheim, and Devin Pope

Monetary Incentives Increase COVID-19 Vaccination
Science (2021) 374(6569), 879-882. | Campos-Mercade, Pol, Armando Meier, Florian Schneider, Stephan Meier, Devin Pope, and Erik Wengstrom

Variation in Common Laboratory Test Results Due to Ambient Temperature
Med (2021) 2(12), 1314–1326. | Obermeyer, Ziad and Devin Pope

Predict Science to Improve Science
Science (2019) 366(6464), 428-429. | DellaVigna, Stefano, Devin Pope, and Eva Vivalt

Attribution Bias in Consumer Choice
The Review of Economic Studies (2019) 86(5), 2136–2183 | Haggag, Kareem, Devin Pope, Kinsey B. Bryant-Lees, and Maarten W. Bos

Predicting Experimental Results: Who Knows What?
Journal of Political Economy (2018) 126(6), 2410-2456 | DellaVigna, Stefano, and Devin Pope

Management Science (2018) 64(11), 4988-4995 | Pope, Devin, Joseph Price, and Justin Wolfers

American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings (2018) 108, 148-152 | Hirshman, Samuel, Devin Pope, and Jihong Song

The Review of Economic Studies (2018) 85(2), 1029–1069 | DellaVigna, Stefano and Devin Pope

Management Science (2017) 63(6), 1657-1672 | Allen, Eric, Patricia Dechow, Devin Pope, and George Wu

Journal of Financial Economics (2016) 122(3), 482-499 | Keys, Benjamin, Devin Pope, Jaren Pope 

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (2016) 8(4), 195-229 | Lacetera, Nicola, Bradley Larsen, Devin Pope, and Justin Sydnor 

Topics in Cognitive Science (2016) 8, 660–669 | Pope, Devin 

Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making (2015) | Pope, Devin, and Justin Sydnor 

Games and Economic Behavior (2015) 93(C), 89-107 | Pope, Devin, Jaren Pope, and Justin Sydnor 

Economics of Education Review (2015) 48, 30-40 | Pope, Devin and Ian Fillmore 

Quarterly Journal of Economics (2015) 130(1), 371-414 | Busse, Meghan, Devin Pope, Jaren Pope, and Jorge Silva-Risso 

Journal of Urban Economics (2015) 87, 1-13 | Pope, Devin and Jaren Pope 

Journal of Labor Economics (2014) 32(2), 259-303 | Kroft, Kory and Devin Pope 

Journal of Sports Economics (2014) 15(2), 107-131 | Pope, Devin and Jaren Pope 

American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings (2013) 103(3), 570-74 | Busse, Meghan, Nicola Lacetera, Devin Pope, Jorge Silva-Risso, and Justin Sydnor 

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2013) 5(2), 26-52 | Bettinger, Eric, Brent Evans, and Devin Pope 

American Economic Review (2012) 102(5), 2206-2236 | Lacetera, Nicola, Devin Pope, and Justin Sydnor 

Social Psychological and Personality Science (2012) 3, 730-37 | Small, Deborah, Devin Pope, and Michael Norton 

Regional Science and Urban Economics (2012) 42, 177-188 | Pope, Devin and Jaren Pope 

Management Science (2012) 58(1), 35-51 | Haselhuhn, Michael, Devin Pope, Maurice Schweitzer and Peter Fishman 

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2011) 3(3), 206-231 | Pope, Devin and Justin Sydnor 

Psychological Science (2011) 22(1), 71-79 | Pope, Devin and Uri Simonsohn

American Economic Review (2011) 101(1), 129-157 | Pope, Devin and Maurice Schweitzer 

Journal of Human Resources (2011) 46(1), 53-92 | Pope, Devin and Justin Sydnor 

Management Science (2011) 57(5), 817-827 | Berger, Jonah and Devin Pope 

Journal of Economic Perspectives (2010) 24(2), 95-108 | Pope, Devin and Justin Sydnor 

Journal of Health Economics (2009) 28(6), 1154-1165 | Pope, Devin 

Southern Economic Journal (2009) 75(3), 750-780 | Pope, Devin and Jaren Pope 

Economics of Education Review (2008) 27(2), 234-242 | Pope, Devin  

CHANCE (2008) 21(4), 25-28 | Croson, Rachel, Peter Fishman, and Devin Pope 


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