Antonio Alonso Arechar
Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, Room 316
1 Prospect Street, New Haven CT 06511, US
✆ +1 (203) 809-7260 ∙  [email protected]
This version: 12 July 2017
EDUCATION
2010-2015
Ph.D. in Experimental Economics (no corrections), University of Nottingham, UK.
- Thesis “On the role of anonymity for peer punishment and cooperation”
supervised by Prof. Simon Gächter and Prof. Chris Starmer.
2006-2007
M.Sc. in Behavioural Economics (Merit), University of Nottingham, UK.
- Dissertation “Individual attitudes towards bribery and its punishment: An
experimental cross-cultural approach” supervised by Prof. Simon Gächter.
2005-2006
Postgraduate Diploma in Statistical Methods, CIMAT, Aguascalientes, MX.
2000-2004
B.Sc. in Economics (Merit), CIDE, Mexico City, MX.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2017-
Associate Research Scientist at the Human Cooperation Lab, Yale University, US.
2014-2017
Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Human Cooperation Lab, Yale University, US.
2012-2014
Graduate Research Assistant in Economics at the University of Nottingham, UK.
2011-2014
Graduate Teaching Fellow in Economics at the University of Nottingham, UK.
2009-2010
Senior Economic Advisor at Grupo Modelo, Mexico City, MX.
2008-2009
Economist at the Ministry of Economic Development, Aguascalientes, MX
RESEARCH
Publications
Arechar AA, Dreber A, Fudenberg D, Rand DG. (2017). ‘I’m just a soul whose
intentions are good’: The role of communication in noisy repeated games. Games and
Economic Behavior.
Arechar AA, Gächter S, Molleman L. (2017). Conducting interactive experiments online.
Experimental Economics.
Stagnaro MN, Arechar AA, Rand DG. (2017). From good institutions to good norms:
Top-down incentives to cooperate foster prosociality but not punishment. Cognition.
Arechar AA, Kraft-Todd G, Rand DG. (2017). Turking Overtime: How Participant
Characteristics and Behavior Vary Over Time and Day on Amazon Mechanical Turk.
Journal of the Economic Science Association.
Arechar AA. (2017). Nuevas tecnologías para entender el comportamiento económico.
Economía Creativa.
Submitted /
Working
papers
Arechar AA, Kouchaki M, Rand DG. Examining Spillovers between Long and Short
Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma Games Played in the Laboratory.
Arechar AA, Espín, AM, Nieboer J, Starmer C, Gächter S. Peer punishment does not
require anonymity to encourage cooperation.
Arechar AA. What norms trigger punishment across societies?
Dunham Y, Arechar AA, Rand DG. From foe to friend: The temporal dynamics of
intra-party bias in U.S. electoral politics.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2015
Center for Science and Social Science Information, Yale University, US.
- “A primer in z-Tree”, designed and instructed for Ph.D. students.
2011-2014
The University of Nottingham, UK.
- L12302 Microeconomic Theory (tutor), average student rating of 4.6/5.0.
- L11117 Economic Perspectives (tutor), average student rating of 4.4/5.0.
- L11216 Current Economic Issues II (tutor), average student rating of 4.5/5.0.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2015-
Roybal Pilot Project Grant from the Yale Institute for Network Science.
2013-2014
Graduate Teaching Fellowship granted by the University of Nottingham.
2010-2014
Postgraduate Research Scholarship granted by the University of Nottingham and the
(Mexican) National Council of Science and Technology.
REFEREEING
2014-
Journal of the Economic Science Association (3), European Economic Review (2), PLoS
ONE (2), European Journal of Personality (1), Games and Economic Behavior (1),
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (1), Judgement and Decision Making
(1), and Social Choice and Welfare (1).
LANGUAGES
Computer
Matlab, PHP, R, SAS, Stata, SQL, Visual Basic, and z-Tree.
Human
English and Spanish.
PRESENTATIONS / TALKS
2017
Economic Science Association (ESA) World Meeting, San Diego, CA. US.
- Paper presented: “Top-Down incentives to cooperate promote prosociality and
honesty. New insights from online and lab experiments”.
American Economic Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. US.
- Paper presented (poster): “From good institutions to good norms”.
2016
2015
ESA North American meeting, Tucson, AZ. US.
- Paper presented: “The Role of Power in Strategic Negotiation”.
Stony Brook University, US; University of Rhode Island, US; Stockholm University, SE.
- Invited talk: “Conducting interactive experiments online”.
ESA North American meeting, Dallas, TX. US.
- Paper presented: “Communicating intentions in noisy repeated games”.
2014
ESA North American meeting, Ft Lauderdale, FL. US.
- Paper presented: “Conducting interactive experiments online”.
2013
ESA World Meeting, Zurich, CH; CREED-CEDEX-CBEES (CCC) Annual Meeting,
Amsterdam, NL.
- Paper presented: “On the role of anonymity for peer punishment and cooperation”.
2012
ESA World Meeting, New York, US; ESA European Conference, Cologne, DE.
- Paper presented: “On the role of anonymity for peer punishment and cooperation”.
Social Structure Summer School, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, DE.
2011
ESA European Conference, Luxembourg City, LU; Alhambra Experimental Workshop
(AEW), Granada, ES.
- Paper presented: “Hiding behind the crowd or standing out when punishing?”