Writing

Below you’ll find select working papers, journal articles, and opinion pieces. For questions on any specific publication, feel free to message my office, and a teaching staff member will respond as soon as possible.

Whitepapers

Coming soon

Peer Reviewed Writings

2026 - 2030

Hopefully coming soon!

2020 - 2025

Dills, Angela K. and Douglas A. Norton (2022) "Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments" Public Choice Vol. 192, 145 - 167

2016 - 2020

Boosey, Luke, R. Mark Isaac, Douglas A. Norton, and Joseph Stinn (2020) “Cooperation, Contributor Types, and Control Questions” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Vol. 85,

Gibson, John, Douglas A. Norton, and Robert White (2019) "The Backward Hustle: An Experimental Investigation of Tax Code Notches and Labor Supply" Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Vol. 166, 432-445

Isaac, R. Mark, Douglas A. Norton, and Svetlana Pevnitskaya (2019) "A New Experimental Mechanism to Investigate Polarized Demands for Public Goods" Experimental Economics. Vol. 22, 585-609

Norton, Douglas A. (2018) A note on qualitative methods in experimental economics in Research in Experimental Economics Volume 20: Experimental Economics and Culture eds. Anna Gunnthorsdottir and Douglas A. Norton. Emerald Press.

2010 - 2015

Isaac, R. Mark, John Lightle, and Douglas A. Norton (2015) "The Pay What You Want Business Model: Warm Glow Revenues and Endogenous Price Discrimination" Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. Vol. 57, 215-222

Norton, Douglas A. (2015) "Killing the (Coordination) Moment: How Ambiguity Eliminates the Restart Effect in Voluntary Contributions Mechanism Experiments" Economics Letters. Vol. 126

Isaac, R. Mark and Douglas A. Norton (2014) “The Parable of the Great Banquet: Insights from Laboratory Economics” Faith and Economics Vol. 63

Isaac, R. Mark and Douglas A. Norton (2013) "Endogenous institutions and the possibility of reverse crowding out" Public Choice Vol. 156, 1-2

Norton, Douglas A. and R. Mark Isaac (2012) “Experts with a conflict of interest: a source of ambiguity?” Experimental Economics. Vol. 15, 2

Isaac, R. Mark and Douglas A. Norton (2010) "Endogenous Production Technology in Public Goods Enterprises" in Research in Experimental Economics Volume 13: Charity with Choice, eds. R. Mark Isaac and Douglas A. Norton. Emerald Press.

Popular Writings

Education

Dills, Angela K. and Doug Norton Goodwill, Sam. 2023. “Parents Fleeing Public Schools Know There’s No Such Thing As A Values-Neutral Education” The Federalist, June, 27 2023. Article Link.