Working Papers
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Moral Costs and Rational Choice: Theory and Experimental Evidence 1.95 MB 9 downloads
(Revision of 2016-02) The literature exploring other-regarding behavior uncovers...
Audit State Dependent Taxpayer Compliance: Theory and Evidence from Colombia 1.20 MB 3 downloads
Revision of 2018-06 We develop and analyze a dynamic model of individual taxpayer...
Smoking and Intertemporal Risk Attitudes 1.63 MB 6 downloads
Atemporal risk preferences, time preferences, and intertemporal risk preferences...
Eye-Tracking and Economic Theories of Choice Under Risk 491.39 KB 1 downloads
We examine the ability of eye movement data to help understand the determinants of...
Do People Bundle Sequences of Choices? An Experimental Investigation 1.78 MB 4 downloads
Economists and psychologists have sought to model and explain both impulsive behavior...
Audit State Dependent Taxpayer Compliance: Theory and Evidence from Colombia 0.00 KB 9 downloads
This paper was revised as 2019-01. We develop and analyze a dynamic model of individual...
Moral Costs and Rational Choice: Theory and Experimental Evidence 0.00 KB 4 downloads
(Revision of 2016-02) (Revised as 2019-02) Literature exploring other-regarding...
Designed to Fail: Effects of the Default Option and Information Complexity on Student Loan Repayment 1.48 MB 1 downloads
We ask why so few student loan borrowers enroll in Income-Driven Repayment when the majority...
Cultural Identities and Resolution of Social Dilemmas 842.84 KB 9 downloads
Revision of 2017-08 We report an experiment on payoff-equivalent provision and appropriation games...
The St. Petersburg Paradox Despite Risk-seeking Preferences: An Experimental Study 509.97 KB 5 downloads
The St. Petersburg Paradox is one of the oldest challenges of expected value theory. Thus...
Incentives 389.55 KB 9 downloads
Incentives are a major part of what defines the “economics” part in experimental economics....
Cultural Identities and Resolution of Social Dilemmas 0.00 KB 4 downloads
(Revised as 2018-03) An experiment is reported for the payoff-equivalent public...
Moral Costs and Rational Choice: Theory and Experimental Evidence 0.00 KB 1 downloads
(Revision of 2016-02) (Revised as 2018-05) (Revised as 2019-02) The literature...
Asset Integration and Attitudes to Risk: Theory and Evidence 1.49 MB 2 downloads
Revision of 2012-12 We provide evidence that choices over small stakes bets are consistent...
Harnessing Policy Complementarities to Conserve Energy: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment 2.28 MB 1 downloads
The literature has shown the power of social norms to promote residential energy...
Do The Effects of Social Nudges Persist? Theory and Evidence from 38 Natural Field Experiments 9.02 MB 1 downloads
This study examines the mechanisms underlying long-run reductions in energy consumption...
Fit as a Fiddle or Sick as a Dog: Effects of Subjective Patient Reports on Uptake of Clinical Decision Support 1.22 MB 1 downloads
This paper reports research on improving decisions about hospital discharge ‒ a...
Tax Incidence: Do Institutions Matter? An Experimental Study 578.74 KB 0 downloads
Revision of 2012-17 According to economic theory, the incidence of a unit tax is...
An Experimental Game of Loss Sharing 1.07 MB 1 downloads
We conduct a lab-experimental study of bargaining over the distribution of monetary...
Asset Integration and Attitudes to Risk: Theory and Evidence 0.00 KB 0 downloads
(Revision of 2012-12) (Revised as 2017-06) Measures of risk attitudes derived from...
The Behavioralist as Policy Designer: The Need to Test Multiple Treatments to Meet Multiple Targets 877.98 KB 1 downloads
We explore Tinbergen’s fundamental insight that policymakers need at least as many...
Cumulative Prospect Theory in the Laboratory: A Reconsideration 849.92 KB 0 downloads
We take Cumulative Prospect Theory (CPT) seriously by rigorously estimating structural...
What is Trustworthiness and What Drives It? 407.07 KB 2 downloads
Revision of 2014-06 This paper experimentally isolates the impact of various combinations...
Moral Costs and Rational Choice: Theory and Experimental Evidence 0.00 KB 0 downloads
(Revised as 2017-07) (Revised as 2018-05) (Revised as 2019-02) The literature...
Status Quo Effects in Fairness Games: Reciprocal Responses to Acts of Commission vs. Acts of Omission 630.79 KB 2 downloads
(Revision of 2012-03) Both the law and culture distinguish between acts of commission...
Subjective Belief Distributions and the Characterization of Economic Literacy 292.90 KB 6 downloads
We characterize the literacy of an individual in a domain by their elicited subjective...
Eliciting Subjective Probability Distributions with Binary Lotteries 149.24 KB 1 downloads
Revision of 2012-16 We consider the elicitation of subjective belief distributions...
Reduction of Compound Lotteries with Objective Probabilities: Theory and Evidence 1.18 MB 9 downloads
Revision of 2012-04 The reduction of compound lotteries axiom (ROCL) has assumed...
Trust and Trustworthiness of Immigrants and Native-Born Americans 646.29 KB 1 downloads
Trust and trustworthiness are crucial to the amelioration of social dilemmas. Distrust...
Higher Quality and Lower Cost from Improving Hospital Discharge Decision Making 1.46 MB 10 downloads
(Revision of 2014-07) This paper reports research on improving decisions about hospital...Contact Us
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