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Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Greg; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a … shaping educational choices and labor market and health outcomes. We improve on LATE by identifying the groups affected by …

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Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance

Mullainathan, Sendhil; Baicker, Katherine; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper develops a model of health insurance that incorporates behavioral biases. In the traditional model, people … means that estimating the demand response is no longer enough for setting optimal copays; the health response needs to be …. Optimally designed insurance can thus increase health care efficiency as well as provide financial protection, suggesting the …

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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart; Heckman, James J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing literature relating economic preference parameters to psychological measures by asking whether variations in preference parameters among persons, and in particular across genders,...

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Energy Policy with Externalities and Internalities

Mullainathan, Sendhil; Allcott, Hunt; Taubinsky, Dmitry - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

"sufficient statistics" that can be estimated using field experiments or quasi-experimental variation in product prices and energy …

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The Shape of Temptation: Implications for the Economic Lives of the Poor

Mullainathan, Sendhil; Banerjee, Abhijit - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This paper argues that the relation between temptations and the level of consumption plays a key role in explaining the observed behaviors of the poor. Temptation goods are defined to be the set of goods that generate positive utility for the self that consumes them, but not for any previous...

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Behavioral Economics and Tax Policy

Kling, Jeffrey Richard; Mullainathan, Sendhil; Congdon, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Behavioral economics is changing our understanding of how economic policy operates, including tax policy. In this paper, we consider some implications of behavioral economics for tax policy, such as how it changes our understanding of the welfare consequences of taxation, the relative...

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The Economics of Child Well-Being

Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper presents an integrated economic approach that organizes and interprets the evidence on child development. It also discusses the indicators of child well-being that are used in international comparisons. Recent evidence on child development is summarized, and policies to promote child...

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Identification Problems in Personality Psychology

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart; Heckman, James J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by psychologists to infer traits are based on behaviors, broadly defined. These behaviors are produced from multiple traits interacting with incentives in situations. In general, measures...

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