Working Papers
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All ExCEN Working papers
Higher Quality and Lower Cost from Improving Hospital Discharge Decision Making 1.46 MB 121 downloads
(Revision of 2014-07) This paper reports research on improving decisions about hospital...
Trust and Trustworthiness of Immigrants and Native-Born Americans 646.29 KB 108 downloads
Trust and trustworthiness are crucial to the amelioration of social dilemmas. Distrust...
Reduction of Compound Lotteries with Objective Probabilities: Theory and Evidence 1.18 MB 143 downloads
Revision of 2012-04 The reduction of compound lotteries axiom (ROCL) has assumed...
Eliciting Subjective Probability Distributions with Binary Lotteries 149.24 KB 113 downloads
Revision of 2012-16 We consider the elicitation of subjective belief distributions...
Subjective Belief Distributions and the Characterization of Economic Literacy 292.90 KB 133 downloads
We characterize the literacy of an individual in a domain by their elicited subjective...
Status Quo Effects in Fairness Games: Reciprocal Responses to Acts of Commission vs. Acts of Omission 630.79 KB 291 downloads
(Revision of 2012-03) Both the law and culture distinguish between acts of commission...
Moral Costs and Rational Choice: Theory and Experimental Evidence 0.00 KB 180 downloads
(Revised as 2017-07) (Revised as 2018-05) (Revised as 2019-02) The literature...
What is Trustworthiness and What Drives It? 407.07 KB 437 downloads
Revision of 2014-06 This paper experimentally isolates the impact of various combinations...
Cumulative Prospect Theory in the Laboratory: A Reconsideration 849.92 KB 176 downloads
We take Cumulative Prospect Theory (CPT) seriously by rigorously estimating structural...
The Behavioralist as Policy Designer: The Need to Test Multiple Treatments to Meet Multiple Targets 877.98 KB 260 downloads
We explore Tinbergen’s fundamental insight that policymakers need at least as many...
Asset Integration and Attitudes to Risk: Theory and Evidence 0.00 KB 151 downloads
(Revision of 2012-12) (Revised as 2017-06) Measures of risk attitudes derived from...
An Experimental Game of Loss Sharing 1.07 MB 157 downloads
We conduct a lab-experimental study of bargaining over the distribution of monetary...
Tax Incidence: Do Institutions Matter? An Experimental Study 578.74 KB 386 downloads
Revision of 2012-17 According to economic theory, the incidence of a unit tax is...
Fit as a Fiddle or Sick as a Dog: Effects of Subjective Patient Reports on Uptake of Clinical Decision Support 1.22 MB 222 downloads
This paper reports research on improving decisions about hospital discharge ‒ a...
Do The Effects of Social Nudges Persist? Theory and Evidence from 38 Natural Field Experiments 9.02 MB 219 downloads
This study examines the mechanisms underlying long-run reductions in energy consumption...
Harnessing Policy Complementarities to Conserve Energy: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment 2.28 MB 147 downloads
The literature has shown the power of social norms to promote residential energy...
Asset Integration and Attitudes to Risk: Theory and Evidence 1.49 MB 149 downloads
Revision of 2012-12 We provide evidence that choices over small stakes bets are consistent...
Moral Costs and Rational Choice: Theory and Experimental Evidence 0.00 KB 150 downloads
(Revision of 2016-02) (Revised as 2018-05) (Revised as 2019-02) The literature...
Cultural Identities and Resolution of Social Dilemmas 0.00 KB 147 downloads
(Revised as 2018-03) An experiment is reported for the payoff-equivalent public...
Incentives 389.55 KB 316 downloads
Incentives are a major part of what defines the “economics” part in experimental economics....
The St. Petersburg Paradox Despite Risk-seeking Preferences: An Experimental Study 509.97 KB 671 downloads
The St. Petersburg Paradox is one of the oldest challenges of expected value theory. Thus...
Cultural Identities and Resolution of Social Dilemmas 842.84 KB 304 downloads
Revision of 2017-08 We report an experiment on payoff-equivalent provision and appropriation games...
Designed to Fail: Effects of the Default Option and Information Complexity on Student Loan Repayment 1.48 MB 219 downloads
We ask why so few student loan borrowers enroll in Income-Driven Repayment when the majority...
Moral Costs and Rational Choice: Theory and Experimental Evidence 0.00 KB 152 downloads
(Revision of 2016-02) (Revised as 2019-02) Literature exploring other-regarding...
Audit State Dependent Taxpayer Compliance: Theory and Evidence from Colombia 0.00 KB 154 downloads
This paper was revised as 2019-01. We develop and analyze a dynamic model of individual...
Do People Bundle Sequences of Choices? An Experimental Investigation 1.78 MB 562 downloads
Economists and psychologists have sought to model and explain both impulsive behavior...
Eye-Tracking and Economic Theories of Choice Under Risk 491.39 KB 166 downloads
We examine the ability of eye movement data to help understand the determinants of...
Smoking and Intertemporal Risk Attitudes 1.63 MB 554 downloads
Atemporal risk preferences, time preferences, and intertemporal risk preferences...
Audit State Dependent Taxpayer Compliance: Theory and Evidence from Colombia 1.20 MB 437 downloads
Revision of 2018-06 We develop and analyze a dynamic model of individual taxpayer...
Moral Costs and Rational Choice: Theory and Experimental Evidence 1.95 MB 588 downloads
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