Victoria L Prowse

Biographic Data

ID5806713
NAMEVictoria L Prowse
GIVEN NAMESVictoria L
FAMILY NAMEProwse
SIGNATUREPROWSE V L
AFFILIATIONSPurdue University West Lafayette
ORCID0009-0008-8803-5190
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS21
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Strategic Complexity and the Value of Thinking

    Open AccessDavid Gill, Victoria Prowse et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2023Cited by: 1References: 63

    We leverage response-time data from repeated strategic interactions to measure the strategic complexity of a situation by how long people think on average when they face that situation (where we categorise situations according to characteristics of play in the previous round). We find that strategic complexity varies significantly across situations, and we find considerable heterogeneity in how responsive subjects’ thinking times are to complexit…

  • Cognitive Skills, Strategic Sophistication, and Life Outcomes

    Eduardo Fé, David Gill et al.ARTICLEJournal of Political Economy2022Cited by: 4References: 9

    We investigate how childhood cognitive skills affect strategic sophistication and adult outcomes, and we emphasize the importance of childhood theory of mind. Experimental data show that (i) theory-of-mind ability and cognitive ability both predict level k behavior, (ii) older children respond to information about the cognitive ability of their opponent, and (iii) theory of mind (but not cognitive ability) predicts whether children respond to int…

  • Using Goals to Motivate College Students

    DAMON CLARK, David Gill et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2020

    Will college students who set goals work harder and perform better? We report two field experiments that involved four thousand college students. One experiment asked treated students to set goals for performance in the course; the other asked treated students to set goals for a particular task (completing online practice exams). Task-based goals had robust positive effects on the level of task completion and marginally significant positive effec…

  • Cognitive Ability, Character Skills, and Learning to Play Equilibrium

    David Gill, Victoria Prowse et al.ARTICLEJournal of Political Economy2016Cited by: 16References: 3

    We investigate how cognitive ability and character skills influence the evolution of play toward Nash equilibrium in repeated strategic interactions. We find that more cognitively able subjects choose numbers closer to equilibrium, earn more, and converge more frequently to equilibrium play. We estimate a structural model of learning based on level k reasoning and find a positive relationship between cognitive ability and levels. Furthermore, the…

  • A Structural Analysis of Disappointment Aversion in a Real Effort Competition

    David Gill, Victoria Prowse et al.ARTICLEAmerican Economic Review2012

    We develop a novel computerized real effort task, based on moving sliders across a screen, to test experimentally whether agents are disappointment averse when they compete in a real effort sequential-move tournament. We predict that a disappointment averse agent, who is loss averse around her endogenous choice-acclimating expectations-based reference point, responds negatively to her rival's effort. We find significant evidence for this discoura…

  • Modeling Employment Dynamics With State Dependence and Unobserved Heterogeneity

    Victoria Prowse, Victoria L ProwseARTICLEJournal of Business and Economic…2012

    This study extends existing work on the dynamics of labor force participation by distinguishing between full-time and part-time employment and by allowing unobserved heterogeneity in the effects of previous employment outcomes, children and education on labor supply behavior. In addition, unobserved heterogeneity may feature autocorrelation and correlated random effects. The results reveal significant variation in the effects of children and educ…