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The Allocation of Time in Sleep: a Social Network Model with Sampled Data

Liu, Xiaodong; Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health. The sampling design of the survey causes the conventional 2SLS estimator to be …

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Dynamic Aspects of Teenage Friendships and Educational Attainment

Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study peer effects in education. We first develop a network model that predicts a relationship between own education and peers’ education as measured by direct links in the social network. We then test this relationship using the four waves of the AddHealth data, looking at the impact of...

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Student Networks and Long-Run Educational Outcomes: The Strength of Strong Ties

Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The aim of this paper is to investigate and understand the effect of high-school friends on years of schooling. We develop a simple network model where students first choose their friends and then decide how much effort they put in education. The empirical salience of the model is tested using...

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Reference-Dependent Preferences and Loss Aversion: A Discrete Choice Experiment In the Health-Care Sector

Neuman, Einat; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

A Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) in the health-care sector is used to test the loss aversion theory that is derived … with non-tangible attributes. A health-care event is used for empirical illustration: The loss aversion theory is tested …

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Explorations of the Effect of Experience on Preferences: Two Health-Care Case Studies

Neuman, Einat; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

experience on preferences for attributes of health-care events. We are using two very different samples and a methodology that … facilitates the estimation of marginal utilities of various attributes of a composite non-traded health-care service. Discrete … is that preferences for health-care attributes are significantly changed as a result of experience with the health event …

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Explorations of the Effect of Experience on Preferences for a Health-Care Service

Neuman, Einat; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

as experience is accumulated. This paper tests the effect of experience with a health-care service on preferences for … basic findings are that preferences change significantly as a result of experience with the health event; that the effect of …

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Facilitating Consumer Learning in Insurance Markets—What Are the Welfare Effects?

Lagerlöf, Johan N. M.; Schottmüller, Christoph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

What are the welfare effects of a policy that facilitates for insurance customers to privately and covertly learn about … their accident risks? We endogenize the information structure in Stiglitz's classic monopoly insurance model. We first show …

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Monopoly Insurance with Endogenous Information

Lagerlöf, Johan N. M.; Schottmüller, Christoph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We study a monopoly insurance model with endogenous information acquisition. Through a continuous effort choice …

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Efficiency-Enhancing Signalling in the Samaritan's Dilemma

Lagerlöf, Johan N. M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Suppose an altruistic person - A - is willing to transfer resources to a second person - B - if B comes upon hard times. If B anticipates that A will act in this manner, B will save too little from both agents’ point of view. This is the Samaritan’s dilemma. The logic of the dilemma has been...

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