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The rise of childhood obesity in less developed countries is often overlooked. We study the impact of body weight report cards in Mexico. The report cards increased parental knowledge and shifted parental attitudes about children's weight. We observe no meaningful changes in parental behaviors...
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In many settings, decision-makers' behavior is observed to vary based on seemingly arbitrary factors. Such framing … effects cast doubt on the welfare conclusions drawn from revealed preference analysis. We relax the assumptions underlying … that approach to accommodate settings in which framing effects are present. Plausible restrictions of varying strength …
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rolled out with a long-run experiment, which allows us to measure its short-run and long-run effects. We find that, although …
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We use an experiment to test whether consumers optimally acquire information on energy costs in appliance markets where …
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experiment, we recover preferences and consideration probabilities using only data on which items were ultimately chosen, and we …
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exploration and lower individual and group payoffs. We test our predictions in an online lab experiment and show that the …
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policymaking tools available to improve their informativeness is the framing of this information. We introduce a general …
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using administrative transaction data and a post-experiment survey. Temporary discounts lead to substantial increases in the …
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We provide evidence that individuals optimize imperfectly when making annuity decisions, and this result is not driven by loss aversion. Life annuities are more attractive when presented in a consumption frame than in an investment frame. Highlighting the purchase price in the consumption frame...
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by information problems alone. We demonstrate that a simple model of narrow framing, where consumers do not fully account …
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