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The Effect of Incentive Structure on Heuristic Decision Making : The Proportion Heuristic
Oxoby, Robert J. - 2021
When making judgments, individuals often utilize heuristics to interpret information. We report on a series of … experiments designed to test the ways in which incentive mechanisms influence the use of a particular heuristic in decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316971
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Combining Microsimulation and Optimization to Identify Optimal Flexible Tax-Transfer Rules
Colombino, Ugo - 2020
We use a behavioural microsimulation model embedded in a numerical optimization procedure in order to identify optimal (social welfare maximizing) tax-transfer rules. We consider the class of tax-transfer rules consisting of a universal basic income and a tax defined by a 4th degree polynomial....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832584
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The Identification and Economic Content of Ordered Choice Models with Stochastic Thresholds
Cunha, Flavio - 2008
This paper extends the widely used ordered choice model by introducing stochastic thresholds and interval-specific outcomes. The model can be interpreted as a generalization of the GAFT (MPH) framework for discrete duration data that jointly models durations and outcomes associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773457
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A Job Ladder Model with Stochastic Employment Opportunities
Bradley, Jake - 2018
We set up a model with on-the-job search in which firms infrequently post vacancies for which workers occasionally apply. The model nests the standard job ladder and stock-flow models as special cases while remaining analytically tractable and easy to estimate from standard panel data sets....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911194
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Stochastic Complementarity
Manzini, Paola - 2018
The Hicksian definition of complementarity and substitutability may not apply in contexts in which agents are not utility maximisers or where price or income variations, whether implicit or explicit, are not available. We look for tools to identify complementarity and substitutability satisfying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928499
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Testing for Restricted Stochastic Dominance
Davidson, Russell; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2006
Asymptotic and bootstrap tests are studied for testing whether there is a relation of stochastic dominance between two distributions. These tests have a null hypothesis of nondominance, with the advantage that, if this null is rejected, then all that is left is dominance. This also leads us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059083
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Independent Individual Decision-Makers in Household Models and the New Home Economics
Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2010
individual models presented in his theory of marriage. Decision-making models assuming independent individual household members …Much of the recent literature in household economics has been critical of unitary models of household decision … discusses another alternative: independent individual models of decision-making that don't make any specific assumptions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139037
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Is It Money or Brains? The Determinants of Intra-Family Decision Power
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2012
We empirically study the determinants of intra-household decision power with respect to economic and financial choices …'s characteristics in terms of age, education, and income. The main conclusion is that decision-making power over family economics is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104671
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Evaluating Alternative Representations of the Choice Sets in Models of Labour Supply
Aaberge, Rolf - 2006
simulation the implications of - the procedure used to build the choice set (fixed alternatives vs sampled alternatives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780622
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Genetic Ability, Wealth, and Financial Decision-Making
Barth, Daniel - 2017
Recent advances in behavioral genetics have enabled the discovery of genetic scores linked to a variety of economic outcomes, including education. We build on this progress to demonstrate that the same genetic variants that predict educational attainment independently predict household wealth in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962275