Profile
Sherry Li received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
Li’s research is primarily experimental and behavioral, in areas of broadly defined public economics, labor economics and organizational design. Recent research interest focuses on the effect of social identity on economic decision-making, charitable giving and tax compliance.
Her teaching interests include experimental economics, behavioral economics, public economics, labor economics, and microeconomics.
Work Experience
- August 2006 – Present
- University of Texas at Dallas, Assistant Professor of Economics and Political Economy
Awards
Richard A. Musgrave Fellowship, Office of Tax Policy Research, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, 2000-2001.
Professional Organizations
- American Economic Association
- Economic Science Association
- National Tax Association
- Southern Economic Association
Courses
Principles of Microeconomics
Microeconomics Theory II
Research & Publications
Research Interests
Experimental economics, behavioral economics, public finance, labor economics
Current Research
Social identity and economics, public goods, economics of the Internet
Publications
“Group Identity and Social Preferences” (with Yan Chen), American Economic Review forthcoming.
“Online Fund-Raising Mechanisms: A Field Experiment” (with Yan Chen and Jeffrey MacKie-Mason). The B.E. Journals: Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2006.
“Using Social Psychology to Motivate Contributions to Online Communities” (with Paul Resnick, Robert Kraut, et al). Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Volume 10, Issue 4, July 2005. [Computer science]
“Self-Selection, Slipping, Salvaging, Slacking, and Stoning: the Impacts of Negative Feedback at eBay” (with Tapan Khopkar and Paul Resnick). Proceedings of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) EC 05 Conference on Electronic Commerce. (Refereed conference publication, acceptance rate 30%). Vancouver, Canada, 2005. [Computer science]
“An Economic Model of User Rating in an Online Recommender System” (with Maxwell Harper, Yan Chen, and Joseph Konstan). Springer's LNAI series, UM 05 User Modeling: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference. (Refereed conference publication, acceptance rate 21%). Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2005. [Computer science]
Research Papers
“Ethnic Diversity, Social Identities, and Tax Compliance: Evidence from the European and World Values Surveys”, 2006
“Social Comparison and Contribution to Online Communities: A Field Experiment at MovieLens” (with Yan Chen, Maxwell Harper, and Joseph Konstan), 2006
“Reverse Auction and Social Identity” (with Kutsal Dogan and Ernan Haruvy), 2006
“The Flypaper Effect: Evidence from the Tobacco Settlement Payment to States” (with Xiaoyan Xu), 2006
- Updated: June 18, 2008
