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Access and Exposure to Local News Media in the Digital Era : Evidence from U.S. Media Markets

Bang, Minji; L'Heudé, Lucie; Postlewaite, Andrew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Using a new comprehensive survey of adults in large U.S. media markets we show that minority and low-skill individuals, who are heavily exposed to shocks to the local economy, typically have stronger preferences for and stronger ex- posure to local news than high-skill and white individuals. At...

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The Behavioralist as Nutritionist : Leveraging Behavioral Economics To Improve Child Food Choice and Consumption

List, John A. - 2014

Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the U.S., with now almost a third of children ages 2-19 deemed …,500 children, we report several key insights. First, we find that individual incentives can have large influences: in the control …, only 17% of children prefer the healthy snack, whereas the introduction of small incentives increases take-up of the …

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Which Beliefs? Behavior-Predictive Beliefs are Inconsistent with Information-Based Beliefs : Evidence from COVID-19

Heffetz, Ori; Ishai, Guy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We investigate the relationship between (a) official information on COVID-19 infection and death case counts; (b) beliefs about such case counts, at present and in the future; (c) beliefs about average infection chance--in principle, directly calculable from (b); and (d) self-reported...

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A Parsimonious Behavioral SEIR Model of the 2020 COVID Epidemic in the United States and the United Kingdom

Atkeson, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

I present a behavioral epidemiological model of the evolution of the COVID epidemic in the United States and the United Kingdom over the past 12 months. The model includes the introduction of a new, more contagious variant in the UK in early fall and the US in mid December. The model is...

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Decision-Making under the Gambler's Fallacy : Evidence from Asylum Judges, Loan Officers, and Baseball Umpires

Chen, Daniel - 2016

We find consistent evidence of negative autocorrelation in decision-making that is unrelated to the merits of the cases considered in three separate high-stakes field settings: refugee asylum court decisions, loan application reviews, and major league baseball umpire pitch calls. The evidence is...

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The Human Perils of Scaling Smart Technologies : Evidence from Field Experiments

Brandon, Alec; Clapp, Christopher M.; List, John A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Smart-home technologies have been heralded as an important way to increase energy conservation. While in vitro engineering estimates provide broad optimism, little has been done to explore whether such estimates scale beyond the lab. We estimate the causal impact of smart thermostats on energy...

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Looming Large or Seeming Small? Attitudes Towards Losses in a Representative Sample

Chapman, Jonathan; Snowberg, Erik; Wang, Stephanie; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We measure individual-level loss aversion using three incentivized, representative surveys of the U.S. population (combined N=3,000). We find that around 50% of the U.S. population is loss tolerant, with many participants accepting negative-expected-value gambles. This is counter to earlier...

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How do Behavioral Approaches to Increase Savings Compare? Evidence from Multiple Interventions in the U.S. Army

Patterson, Richard W.; Skimmyhorn, William L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Information provision, choice simplification, social messaging, active-choice frameworks, and automatic enrollment all increase retirement savings. However, gauging the relative efficacy of these approaches is challenging because the supporting evidence spans widely different institutional...

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The Economics of Financial Stress

Sergeyev, Dmitriy; Lian, Chen; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the psychological costs of financial constraints and their economic consequences. Using a representative survey of U.S. households, we document the prevalence of financial stress in U.S. households and a strong relationship between financial stress and measures of financial constraints....

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The economic analysis of substance use and abuse : an integration of econometric and behavioral economic research

Chaloupka, Frank J. (ed.); Grossman, Michael (contributor); … - 1999

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