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approach by analyzing data from an experiment conducted in Denmark. Our approach produces tight bounds on the causal effect of … estimated bounds suggesting that elicited higher-order belief data in our experiment is weakly (if at all) affected by a …
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Reporting private information is a key part of economic decision making. A recent literature has found that many people have a preference for honest reporting, contrary to usual economic assumptions. In this paper, we investigate whether preferences for honesty are malleable and what determines...
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We present the results of a randomized intervention to study how teaching financial literacy to 16-year old high-school students affects their behavior in risk and time preference tasks. Compared to two different control treatments, we find that teaching financial literacy makes subjects behave...
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-Samuelson result argues that, in theory, this is impossible. Later work has shown that it may be possible if agents, left on their own …
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This paper analyzes sin goods consumption when individuals exhibit present-focused preferences. It considers three types of present focus: present-bias with varying degrees of naiveté, Gul-Pesendorfer preferences, and a dual-self approach. We investigate the incentives to deviate from healthy...
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When managers have objectives beyond maximizing monetary profits, inefficiencies may arise. An increase in competition may then force managers to improve the productivity of the firm in order to ensure survival. While this hypothesis has received ample theoretical attention, empirical evidence...
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We study the demand for actuarially fair Long Term Care (LTC hereafter) insurance in a setting where autonomous agents only care for daily life consumption while dependent agents also care for LTC expenditures. We assume that dependency decreases the marginal utility of daily life consumption....
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We develop a framework for studying how differences in the level and/or dispersion of per-capita income affect trade structure and welfare in a two-country model. Thereby, we embed nonhomothetic preferences into a home-market model with two sectors of production and one input factor. We...
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preferences. We obtain a uniquely comprehensive characterization of donation motives using an experiment that varies treatments …
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skewed risks. We show that salience theory of choice under risk can explain this preference for positive skewness, because … unlikely, but outstanding payoffs attract attention. In contrast to alternative models, however, salience theory predicts that … preferences—typically attributed to cumulative prospect theory—are more naturally accommodated by salience theory …
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