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efficiently. The complexity of household structures, including multi-generation and polygynous households, is taken into account … allocations is not rejected in models that allow more than two household members to have agency in decision-making. In contrast … decision-making within complex households …
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A vibrant literature has emerged that suggests willingness to pay and willingness to accept measures of value are quite different for inexperienced consumers but that value differences erode with market experience. One potential shortcoming of this literature is that market experience is...
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We examine individuals' decisions to attend protests during the summer of 2020. Our analysis examines two simultaneous movements: Black Lives Matter along with protests calling for less stringent public health measures to combat the COVID-19 (e.g., for swifter reopening of businesses). Our...
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relatively little empirical knowledge about how it affects decision-making in specific medical contexts. Through general … conceptual discussion and consideration of a case study of leukemia chemo-therapy, this paper examines the medical decision …
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Home-delivered prescriptions have no delivery charge and lower copayments than prescriptions picked up at a pharmacy. Nevertheless, when home delivery is offered on an opt-in basis, the take-up rate is only 6%. We study a program that makes active choice of either home delivery or pharmacy...
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With agency costs of managerial discretion, equity financing is advantageous for the shareholders of firms with valuable investment opportunities but not for the shareholders of other firms. Accordingly, we find that firms with good investment opportunities are more likely to issue equity than...
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-consistent expectations. This implicitly assumes unrealistic cognitive abilities on the part of economic decision makers. The relevant … question, however, is not whether the assumption can be literally correct, but how much it would matter to model decision … problems such as chess or go, in which decision makers look ahead only a finite distance into the future, and use a value …
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Cognitive Economics is the economics of what is in people's minds. It is a vibrant area of research (much of it within Behavioral Economics, Labor Economics and the Economics of Education) that brings into play novel types of data--especially novel types of survey data. Such data highlight the...
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Laboratory experiments find a robust relationship between decision times and perceived values of alternatives. This … paper investigates how these findings translate to experts' decision making and information acquisition in the field. In a … be chosen later than earlier; (ii) decision time is higher when the likelihood of choosing each alternative is closer to …
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We develop interpretable, quantitative indices of the objective and subjective complexity of lottery choice problems … important complexity feature in the indices is a measure of the excess dissimilarity of the cumulative distribution functions of … the lotteries in the set. Using our complexity indices, we study behavioral responses to complexity out-of-sample across …
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