- Corinne Low | Business Economics and Public Policy | Wharton

Published and Accepted Papers

"The Human Capital - Reproductive Capital Tradeoff in Marriage Market Matching"
Forthcoming at the Journal of Political Economy.
Previously circulated / cited as combined paper "Pricing the Biological Clock: Reproductive Capital on the US Marriage Market"

"Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Cost of Aging to Women"
Forthcoming at the Journal of Labor Economics.
Previously circulated / cited as combined paper "Pricing the Biological Clock: Reproductive Capital on the US Marriage Market"

"Collateralized Marriage"
With Jeanne Lafortune
Forthcoming at AEJ: Applied.

"Incentivized Resume Rating: Eliciting Employer Preferences without Deception"
With Judd Kessler and Colin Sullivan
American Economic Review, 109(11), 2019.
Coverage: HBR, LA Times, Nature Human Behavior.

"Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment"
With Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, and Kathleen McGinn
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 135(2), 2020.
Coverage: NPR

"Older Yet Fairer: How Extended Reproductive Time Horizons Reshaped Marriage Patterns in Israel"
With Naomi Gershoni
AEJ: Applied, 13(1), 2021.
Coverage: The Guardian

"The Myth of the Male Negotiator: Gender's Effect on Negotiation Strategies and Outcomes"
With Jennie Huang
Experimental Instructions Supplement
Accepted at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations.

"The Power of Time: The Impact of Free IVF on Women's Human Capital Investments"
With Naomi Gershoni
European Economic Review, 133, 2021.

"Social Policy Instruments and the Compliance Environment "
With Judd Kessler and Monica Singhal
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations, 192, 2021.

"Women's Well-being During a Pandemic and its Containment"
with Natalie Bau, Gaurav Khanna, Manisha Shah, Sreyashi Sharmin, and Alessandra Voena
Journal of Development Economics, 156, 2022.

"What Happens the Morning After? The Costs and Benefits of Expanding Access to Emergency Contraception"
With Tal Gross and Jeanne Lafortune, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 33(1), 2014
Winner of the 2014 Vernon Memorial Award for best research article published in JPAM

"Trumping Norms: Lab evidence on aggressive communication before and after the 2016 US presidential election"
With Jennie Huang, American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 2017
News Coverage: Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Forbes

"Tying the Double-Knot: The Role of Assets in Marriage Commitment"
With Jeanne Lafortune, American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 2017

Working Papers

"Traditional Institutions in Modern Times: Dowries as Pensions when Sons Migrate"
With Natalie Bau, Gaurav Khanna, and Alessandra Voena
R&R at The Quarterly Journal of Economics

"Lowering the Playing Field: Discrimination through Sequential Spillover Effects"
With Judd Kessler and Xiaoyue Shan
R&R at REStat.

"Winning the Bread and Baking it Too"
With Kyle Hancock and Jeanne Lafortune

"Do Optional Information Policies Increase Equity? Evidence From Two Large-Scale Grading Experiments"
With Christine Exley, Ray Fisman, Judd Kessler, Louis-Pierre LePage, Xiaomeng Li, Mattie Toma, Xiaoyue Shan, and Basit Zafar.

"Supporting Women's Livelihoods at Scale: Evidence from a Nationwide Graduation Program"
With Ioana Botea, Andrew Brudevold-Newman, Markus Goldstein, and Gareth Roberts

Work in Progress and Projects in the Field

"Drivers of Demand for Workers in India"
With Alessandra Voena , Maddie McKelway, and Karmini Sharma

"Barriers to Contraceptive Uptake in Zambia"
With Natalie Bau, Bryce Steinberg, and David Henning

Corinne Low
Associate Professor
Business Economics and Public Policy Department
318 Vance Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104

corlow@wharton.upenn.edu