This paper reviews some of the most popular policy evaluation methods in empirical microeconomics: social experiments … evaluation literature. A workhorse simulation model of education returns is used throughout the paper to discuss and illustrate …

problem as well as in a real payoff money-burning experiment that can inform our understanding of moral preferences and … antisocial behavior. Choices in both environments respond to incentives (i.e., the relative price of the ethical decision …

assumptions which are consistent with economic theory, e.g. log-normally distributed consumption preferences, the Bayesian method …

We develop a parametrization of the multinomial probit model that yields greater insight into the underlying decision …

This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is … evaluation of current policies. Our model clarifies a series of puzzles from the literature on the "value of life" and on …

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 …