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Using data from a field experiment on exercise, we analyze the relationship between imperfect memory and people …
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deploy in a field experiment on promoting attendance to the YMCA of the Triangle Area. We find that social recognition … increases YMCA attendance by 17-23% over a one-month period in our experiment, and our estimated structural models predict that …
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We report the results of an online experiment studying preferences for giving and preferences for group …
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Recent large-scale randomized experiments find that helping people form implementation intentions by asking when and where they plan to act increases one-time actions, such as vaccinations, preventative screenings and voting. We investigate the effect of a simple scalable planning intervention...
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attentive and develop quantitative tests of rational inattention that we deploy in two experiments. The first is an experiment … and incentives to make plans to complete the modules. The second is an online survey-completion experiment (n=944), in … rationality, indicating that people underuse attention-increasing tools. In our second experiment, we estimate that individuals …
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People's fairness preferences are an important constraint for what constitutes an acceptable economic transaction, yet little is known about how these preferences are formed. In this paper, we provide clean evidence that previous transactions play an important role in shaping perceptions of...
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implement an online shopping experiment in which 2,998 consumers purchase common household products, facing tax rates that vary …
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parameters, which we estimate using a novel within-subject information disclosure experiment. In the context of the model, the …
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Laboratory experiments find a robust relationship between decision times and perceived values of alternatives. This paper investigates how these findings translate to experts' decision making and information acquisition in the field. In a stylized model of expert choice between two alternatives,...
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