at Williams College
Office: Schapiro Hall Rm. 327
Webpage: http://sites.google.com/site/sarahjacobson/
E-mail: Sarah.A.Jacobson@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-4766
Fax: (413) 597-4045
Department of Economics
Williams College
24 Hopkins Hall Drive
Williamstown, MA 01267
Office hours Spring 2013: Tuesday 2-4pm, Thursday 9-11am, or by appointment
I will be on sabbatical starting in summer 2013, returning in spring 2015. I will be visiting at Cornell University’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.
Georgia State University, Ph.D. in Economics, 2010
Georgia State University, M.A. in Economics, 2005
Harvey Mudd College, B.S. in Engineering, 1998
Curriculum Vitae
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Experimental Economics
Environmental Economics
Microeconomics
Public Economics
“Learning from Mistakes: What Do Inconsistent Choices over Risk Tell Us?” with Ragan Petrie, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Vol. 38 No. 2 (April 2009), 143-158.
“Using Laboratory Experiments in Public Economics” with James Alm, National Tax Journal, Vol. 60 No. 1 (March 2007), 129-152.
Working Papers
Favor Trading in Public Good Provision, with Ragan Petrie. Williams College, working paper. Latest revision: April 2013 (revised and resubmitted) (experiment instructions)
Those Outsiders: How Downstream Externalities Affect Public Good Provision, with Jason Delaney. Williams College, working paper. Latest revision: January 2012 (revise and resubmit) (experiment instructions, Homogeneous Return and Heterogeneous Return treatments)
Temporal Spillovers in Land Conservation Williams College, working paper. Latest revision: August 2012
The Good of the Few: Reciprocity in the Provision of a Public Bad, with Jason Delaney. Williams College, working paper. Latest revision: June 2012 (experiment instructions)
Works in Progress
Common Pool Resource Congestion: Subsidies versus Information (with Jason Delaney)
Preference Discovery and Luck in Decision-Making Under Risk (with Jason Delaney & Thorsten Moenig)
Punishment and Cooperation, (with Patrick Aquino and Robert Gazzale)