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Harrison, Glenn; Ross, Don - Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy … - 2010

We critically review the methodological practices of two research programs which are jointly called 'neuroeconomics'. We defend the first of these, termed 'neurocellular economics' (NE) by Ross (2008), from an attack on its relevance by Gul and Pesendorfer (2008) (GP). This attack arbitrarily...

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Do I Care if You Know I Betrayed You?

Cox, James C.; Li, Danyang - Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy … - 2012

It has been reported that betrayal aversion in influences the trust decision (Bohnet and Zeckhauser 2004; Bohnet et al. 2008). This paper adds to the literature by examining how concern for others' disutility from betrayal can affect the decision to repay trust. We compare trustees' behavior when...

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Insurance Purchase for Low-Probability Losses

Laury, Susan K.; McInnes, Melayne Morgan; Swarthout, J. Todd - Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy … - 2008

. We reexamine this issue with an experiment that accounts for possible confounds in prior insurance experiments. Our …

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Incentivizing Cost-Effective Reductions in Hospital Readmission Rates

Cox, James C.; Sadiraj, Vjollca; Schnier, Kurt E.; … - Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy … - 2015

The recent regulatory changes enacted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have identified hospital readmission rates as a critical healthcare quality metric. This research focuses on the utilization of pay-for-performance (P4P) mechanisms to cost effectively reduce hospital...

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Higher Quality and Lower Cost from Improving Hospital Discharge Decision Making

Cox, James C.; Sadiraj, Vjollca; Schnier, Kurt E.; … - Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy … - 2014

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What is Trustworthiness and What Drives It?

Cox, James C.; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel - Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy … - 2014

This paper reports the results of experiments designed to isolate the impact of various combinations of the following …

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Assigning Intentions when Actions are Unobservable: the Impact of Trembling in the Trust Game

Cox, James C.; Deck, Cary A. - Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy …

This paper reports laboratory experiments investigating behavior when players may make inferences about the intentions …

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Altruism Spillovers: Are Behaviors in Context-Free Experiments Predictive of Altruism Toward a Naturally Occurring Public Good?

Laury, Susan K.; Taylor, Laura O. - Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy … - 2006

This paper addresses the external validity of experiments investigating the characteristics of altruism in the … voluntary provision of public goods. We conduct two related experiments that allow us to examine whether individuals who act …

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Rationality and the Nature of the Market

Castillo, Marco; Petrie, Ragan; Torero, Maximo - Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy … - 2008

We investigate the distribution of risk preferences and the frequency of expected utility violations along the gradient of market development. To do this, we collect experimental and survey data from a random sample of the population at four sites in Peru that differ in their level of...

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Direct Tests of Models of Social Preferences and a New Model

Cox, James C.; Sadiraj, Vjollca - Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy …

incorporating inequality aversion and quasi-maximin preferences. We report experiments that provide direct tests of these social … preference models. Data from the experiments motivate a new model of egocentric altruism. The model rationalizes data from our … direct test experiments and data from experiments with proposer competition and responder competition. We discuss …

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