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The effect of an employer health insurance mandate on health insurance coverage and the demand for labor: evidence from Hawaii
Buchmueller, Thomas C.; DiNardo, John; Valletta, Robert G. - 2009
mandate that has ever been enforced in the United States, Hawaii's Prepaid Health Care Act, using a standard supply … Hawaii and other states increased, as did real health insurance costs, implying a rising burden of the mandate on Hawaii … voluntary market (primarily those with lower skills). We also find that relative wages fell in Hawaii over time, but the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269095
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Identification Problems in Personality Psychology
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart; Heckman, James J.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008922967
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Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets
Benabou, Roland - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates collective denial and willful blindness in groups, organizations and markets. Agents with anticipatory preferences, linked through an interaction structure, choose how to interpret and recall public signals about future prospects. Wishful thinking (denial of bad news) is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010704406
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Incentives and prosocial behavior
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2005
We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the true motive for which good deeds are performed and this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267545
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Ideology
Bénabou, Roland - 2008
history-dependent dynamics. The model also explains why societies find it desirable to set up constitutional protections for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268866
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Self-regulation through goal setting
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2008
questions in a model based on two stylized facts from psychology and behavioral economics: i) Goals serve as reference points …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268967
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Motivational goal bracketing
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2009
It is a puzzle why people often evaluate consequences of choices separately (narrow bracketing) rather than jointly (broad bracketing). We study the hypothesis that a present-biased individual, who faces two tasks, may bracket his goals narrowly for motivational reasons. Goals motivate because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271317
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Groupthink: Collective delusions in organizations and markets
Bénabou, Roland - 2013
This paper investigates collective denial and willful blindness in groups, organizations and markets. Agents with anticipatory preferences, linked through an interaction structure, choose how to interpret and recall public signals about future prospects. Wishful thinking (denial of bad news) is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293122
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Identification problems in personality psychology
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart; Heckman, James J.; … - 2011
This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278574
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Ideology
Benabou, Roland - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
history-dependent dynamics. The model also explains why societies find it desirable to set up constitutional protections for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763921