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We are all Behavioral, More or Less : A Taxonomy of Consumer Decision Making
Stango, Victor - 2020
We examine how 17 behavioral biases relate to each other, to other decision inputs, and to decision outputs. Most … personality traits--with some expected exceptions. Accounting for this correlation structure, we reduce our 29 decision inputs to … this taxonomy for various approaches to modeling influences of behavioral biases on decision making …
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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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Dominated Choices and Medicare Advantage Enrollment
Afendulis, Christopher - 2014
revisiting prior choices, can lead to decision errors. This paper explores the enrollment decisions of Medicare beneficiaries in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458484
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Pitfalls of Participatory Programs : Evidence From a Randomized Evaluation in Education in India
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2008
efficiency. In India, the current government flagship program on universal primary education organizes both locally elected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464307
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Explaining the Income and Consumption Effects of COVID in India
Gupta, Arpit; Malani, Anup; Woda, Bartek - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic led to stark reductions in economic activity in India. We employ CMIE's Consumer Pyramids …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585419
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Movies, Margins and Marketing : Encouraging the Adoption of Iron-Fortified Salt
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2015
A set of randomized experiments shed light on how markets and information influence household decisions to adopt nutritional innovations. Of 400 Indian villages, we randomly assigned half to an intervention where all shopkeepers were offered the option to sell a new salt, fortified with both...
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Keeping the Doctor Away : Experimental Evidence on Investment in Preventative Health Products
Meredith, Jennifer M. - 2013
curves for health products in Kenya, Guatemala, India, and Uganda and test whether (1) information about health risk, (2 … purchase decision extensively …
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Evaluating and Pricing Health Insurance in Lower-income Countries : A Field Experiment in India
Malani, Anup; Kinnan, Cynthia; Conti, Gabriella; Imai, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
trial that randomized premiums and subsidies for India's first national, public hospital insurance program, RSBY. We find …
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Automating Automaticity : How the Context of Human Choice Affects the Extent of Algorithmic Bias
Agan, Amanda Y.; Davenport, Diag; Ludwig, Jens; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
by carrying out algorithmic audits of Facebook in its two biggest markets, the US and India, focusing on two algorithms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226178
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The Economics of Faith : Using an Apocalyptic Prophecy to Elicit Religious Beliefs in the Field
Augenblick, Ned - 2012
We model religious faith as a "demand for beliefs," following the logic of the Pascalian wager. We then demonstrate how an experimental intervention can exploit standard elicitation techniques to measure religious belief by varying prizes associated with making choices contrary to one's belief...
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