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Behavioral Inattention
Gabaix, Xavier - 2017
Inattention is a central, unifying theme for much of behavioral economics. It permeates such disparate fields as microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance, public economics, and industrial organization. It enables us to think in a rather consistent way about behavioral biases, speculate about...
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Media Markets and Localism : Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout?
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix - 2006
Since the dawn of broadcasting, and especially in the past decade, Americans have turned their attention from local to more distant sources of news and entertainment. While the integration of media markets will raise the private welfare of many consumers, a globalized information and...
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Nonparametric Identification and Estimation in a Generalized Roy Model
Bayer, Patrick - 2008
This paper considers nonparametric identification and estimation of a generalized Roy model that includes a non-pecuniary component of utility associated with each choice alternative. Previous work has found that, without parametric restrictions or the availability of covariates, all of the...
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Behavioral Economics in Education Market Design : A Forward-Looking Review
Rees-Jones, Alex; Shorrer, Ran - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The rational-choice framework for modeling matching markets has been tremendously useful in guiding the design of school-assignment systems. Despite this success, a large body of work documents deviations from the predictions of this framework that appear influenced by behavioral-economic...
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Superiority-Seeking and the Preference for Exclusion
Imas, Alex; Madarász, Kristóf - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
cannot have it. We term this motive superiority-seeking, and show that it generates preferences for exclusion that help …, which generates a motive for firms and organizations to cater to such preferences by engaging in exclusionary policies …
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Probabilistic Prediction for Binary Treatment Choice : with Focus on Personalized Medicine
Manski, Charles F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper extends my research applying statistical decision theory to treatment choice with sample data, using maximum regret to evaluate the performance of treatment rules. The specific new contribution is to study as-if optimization using estimates of illness probabilities in clinical choice...
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Labor-Market Competition and Individual Preferences Over Immigration Policy
Scheve, Kenneth F. - 1999
This paper uses an individual-level data set to analyze the determinants of individual preferences over immigration …-policy preferences. Different economic models make contrasting predictions about the nature of this link. We have two main empirical …. The result is robust to several different econometric specifications which account for determinants of policy preferences …
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Workers' Expectations and Preferences for Remote Work
Chen, Yuting; Cortés, Patricia; Koşar, Gizem; Pan, Jessica - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
remote work during the pandemic likely shaped expectations and preferences toward WFH. The magnitude of the effects on … preferences and expectations are similar across gender, marital status, and presence of children …
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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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