Essays in Microeconomic Theory and Experimental Economics

Chapter 1 considers a theoretical model of evidence acquisition and disclosure in a legal setting. It analyzes how risk aversion affects an agent’s willingness to seek out information and studies how legal rules can be used to balance the gains from evidence gathering with the costs of acquisition. Chapter 2 examines if different expectations about men and women’s behavior, or stereotypes, could be responsible for observed gender differences, even in anonymous laboratory settings, and shows experimental evidence consistent with this model’s predictions. Chapter 3 experimentally examines players’ recall of past play in a canonical economic game