Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University.
I work on behavioral economics and microeconomic theory.
Contact Information:
lbolte@andrew.cmu.edu
"The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets" with Nicole Immorlica and Matthew O. Jackson
Journal of Labor Economics, 2026, 44 (2), 447–479
"Motivated Mislearning: The Case of Correlation Neglect" with Tony Q. Fan
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 217, 647–663
"Robust contracting under double moral hazard" with Gabriel D. Carroll
Theoretical Economics, 2023, 18 (4), 1623–1663
"What You Don't Know May Hurt You: Preferences Over Mental And External States" with Gonzalo R. Arrieta
Revise & Resubmit at the Journal of the European Economic Association
"Emotional Inattention" with Collin B. Raymond
"Interactions across multiple games: cooperation, corruption, and organizational design" with Jonathan B. Bendor, Nicole Immorlica, and Matthew O. Jackson
"Job Search Discouragement Due to Emotional Inattention" with Russell Golman and Jindi Huang
"The Welfare Costs of False Beliefs" with Gonzalo R. Arrieta and B. Douglas Bernheim
"The Role of Memory in Beliefs Formation" with Markus M. Mobius, Tanya S. Rosenblat, Sidharth Satya, and Pierre-Luc Vautrey
"Testing Models of Motivated Beliefs" with Yeşim Orhun, Collin B. Raymond, and Peter Schwardmann
"How Emotional Inattention Hinders Learning: Evidence from Online Chess" with Aaron Balleisen, Russell Golman, and George Loewenstein