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Welfare Economics. A key theme of Cognitive Economics is finite cognition (often misleadingly called "bounded rationality …
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This paper examines how a firm's choice of the type of experiment impacts on its potential exploitation of new … informally suggested that firms undertake errors in experimental choice (in particular, choosing experiments that involved biased … signals). It is shown that firms will generically choose biased over unbiased experiments even when there are no differences …
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This paper analyses data on union and employer rankings of different panels of arbitrators in an actual arbitration system. A random utility model of bargainer preferences is developed and estimated. The estimates indicate that unions and employers have similar preferences, in favor of lawyers,...
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School choice may allow schools to impede access to students perceived as costlier to educate. To test this, we sent … emails from fictitious parents to 6,452 charter schools and traditional public schools subject to school choice in 29 states …
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electricity plan choice. Consumers were offered socially efficient dynamic pricing with randomly assigned take-up incentives. We …
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Insurance product choice is a central feature of health insurance markets in the United States, yet there is ongoing … concern over whether consumers choose appropriately in such markets - and little evidence on solutions to any choice … document large choice inconsistencies, with the typical employee foregoing savings of more than $600 in their insurance plan …
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Evidence on insurers' behavior in environments with both risk selection and market power is largely missing. We fill this gap by providing one of the first empirical accounts of how insurers adjust plan features when faced with potential changes in selection. Our strategy exploits a 2012 reform...
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conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …
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Affirmative action schemes must confront the tension between admitting the highest scoring applicants and ensuring diversity. In Chicago's affirmative action system for exam schools, applicants are divided into one of four socioeconomic tiers based on the characteristics of their neighborhood....
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Low income and minority students are under-represented in gifted education programs. One explanation for this pattern is that the usual process for identifying gifted students, through parent and teacher referrals, systematically misses many potentially qualified disadvantaged students. We use...
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