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 prestigious journals within economics, psychology, and management. His research primarily uses observational data and studies how psychological biases play out in important economic markets. Examples include left-digit bias and projection bias in car markets and present bias in housing 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.


Working Papers

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

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

Geographic Mobility in America: Evidence from Cell Phone Data
Keith Chen 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, forthcoming | List, John, Ian Muir, Devin Pope, and Gregory Sun

Financial Incentives for Vaccination Do Not Have Negative Unintended Consequences
Nature (2023) 613, 526–533 | Meier, Armando, Pol Campose-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. | Keith Chen, Kareem Haggag, 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

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

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. | Pol Campos-Mercade, 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. | Ziad Obermeyer and Devin Pope

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making (2015) | Devin G. Pope and Justin R. Sydnor 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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