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Behavioral Feedback : Do Individual Choices Influence Scientific Results?
Oster, Emily - 2018
outcomes - are driven by selection into behavior. This paper considers the additional factor that these selection patterns may … vary over time. When a particular health behavior becomes more recommended, the take-up of the behavior may be larger among … varies over time with recommendations about behavior and that estimates of the relationship between health outcomes and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480876
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Willpower and the Optimal Control of Visceral Urges
Ozdenoren, Emre - 2006
resource. We investigate the behavior of an agent who optimally consumes a cake (or paycheck or workload) over time and who …-control behaviors, and the altered economic behavior following imposition of cognitive loads. At the same time, willpower depletion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466390
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Optimism and Economic Choice
Puri, Manju - 2005
This paper presents some of the first large-scale survey evidence linking optimism to major economic choices. We create a novel measure of optimism using the Survey of Consumer Finance by comparing a person's self-reported life expectancy to that implied by statistical tables. Optimists are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467322
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CHOICE – What Can Go Wrong?
McFadden, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The elegant economic picture of rational consumers achieving Pareto optimality through trade in decentralized self-organized markets is blurred by market imperfections and choices inconsistent with consumer self-interest. Behavioral economics has documented these errors in choice, and considered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250182
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Lifetime Memories of Inflation : Evidence from Surveys and the Lab
Salle, Isabelle; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Coibion, Olivier - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study how individuals' memories of inflation shape their expectations about future inflation using both surveys and laboratory experiments. Recalling having lived through prior disinflations has pronounced effects on how long-lived people expect the current inflation episode to last....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447317
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Data Privacy and Algorithmic Inequality
Liu, Zhuang; Sockin, Michael; Xiong, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper develops a foundation for a consumer's preference for data privacy by linking it to the desire to hide behavioral vulnerabilities. Data sharing with digital platforms enhances the matching efficiency for standard consumption goods, but also exposes individuals with self-control issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287351
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Genetic Risk for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias : Cognition, Economic Behavior, and Clinically Actionable Information
Jeong, Yeongmi; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Skira, Meghan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Genetic factors play a major role in the development of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). Observable genetic factors could impact household planning and medical care if they contain actionable information, meaning that they i) are associated with significant harms, ii) reflect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512035
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Social Security Claiming Intentions : Psychological Ownership, Loss Aversion, and Information Displays
Shu, Suzanne B.; Payne, John W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
For many Americans the question of when to claim Social Security benefits is one of the most consequential financial decisions they will ever face. While acknowledging that individuals differ in terms of optimal timing for starting Social Security benefits, many economists argue that an average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322886
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Households' Response to the Wealth Effects of Inflation
Schnorpfeil, Philip; Weber, Michael; Hackethal, Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the redistributive effects of inflation combining administrative bank data with an information provision experiment during an episode of historic inflation. On average, households are well-informed about prevailing inflation and are concerned about its impact on their wealth; yet, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372429
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To Pay or Autopay? Fintech Innovation and Credit Card Payments
Wang, Jialan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
examine the extent to which autopay affects payment behavior for customers of a credit card serviced by a fintech company …
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