Sami Horn

Taking it Easy: Choosing Practice of Suboptimal Difficulty

Horn, S., Duckworth, A., Liu, V., & Loewenstein, G.

SSRN Working Paper 4358786.
Revise & Resubmit at Management Science.

Underestimating Learning by Doing

Horn, S. & Loewenstein, G.

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (forthcoming)

Five-Year Impacts of Group-Based Financial Education and Savings Promotion for Ugandan Youth

*Horn, S., Jamison, J., Karlan, D., & Zinman, J.

The Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming)

Phishing Feedback: Just-in-time Feedback to Promote Online Security

Bender, S., *Horn, S., Loewenstein, G., & Roberts, O.

Behavioural Public Policy (2024)

Curiosity is More than Novelty Seeking

^‡Litovsky, Y., ^‡Horn, S., & Olivola, C.

Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2024)

Using Curiosity to Counter Health Information Avoidance

^‡Horn, S., ^‡Litovsky, Y., & Loewenstein, G.

Social Science & Medicine (2024)

Loss aversion, the endowment effect, and gain-loss framing shape preferences for noninstrumental information

Litovsky, Y., Loewenstein, G., Horn, S., & Olivola, C.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022)

A 680,000-person megastudy of nudges to encourage vaccination in pharmacies

Milkman, K., et al. [incl. Horn, S.]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022)

Doctor Recommendations and Parents’ HPV Vaccination Intentions in Kenya: A Randomized Survey

Horn, S., Chapman, G., & Chouhan, K.

Preventive Medicine Reports (2021)

Megastudies Improve the Impact of Applied Behavioral Science

Milkman, K., et al. [incl. Horn, S.]

Nature (2021)

Evaluation of a Combined Financial Incentives and Deposit Contract Intervention for Smoking Cessation: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Anderson, D., *Horn, S., Karlan, D., Kowalski, A., Sindelar, J., & Zinman, J.

Journal of Smoking Cessation (2021)

Socioeconomic Disparities in Electronic Cigarette Use and Transitions from Smoking

Friedman, A. and *Horn, S.

Nicotine & Tobacco Research (2019)

Intuitive Donating: Testing One-Line Solicitations for $1 Donations in a Large Online Experiment

*Horn, S. & Karlan. D.

The Economics of Philanthropy (2018). Edited by Kimberley Scharf and Mirco Tonin. MIT Press.

* published with alphabetical ordering of authors

^‡ joint first authors

Government Trust and Covid-19 Vaccination: The Role of Supply Disruptions and Political Allegiances in Sierra Leone

Aizenman, A., Conteh, F., Glennerster, R., *Horn, S., Kangbai, D., Karing, A., & Shaukat, S.

American Economic Association: Papers & Proceedings (2023)

A Comparison of Methods for Adaptive Experimentation

*Horn, S. & Sloman, S.

ICML 2022: ReALML Workshop (2022)

(Inaccurate) Beliefs about Skill Decay

^‡Connolly, D., ^‡Horn, S., & Loewenstein, G.

SSRN Working Paper 4916412.

Knowledge vs. Skills: Evidence from a Field Study on Health Information

Conteh, F., Glennerster, R., *Horn, S., & Karing, A.

Working Paper Available on Request