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This paper compares how cash and in-kind transfers affect local prices. Both types of transfers increase the demand for normal goods, but only in-kind transfers also increase supply. Hence, in-kind transfers should lead to lower prices than cash transfers, which helps consumers at the expense of...
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. This paper provides a framework to uncover consumers' perceived price of nonlinear price schedules. I exploit price … respond to average price rather than marginal or expected marginal price. This sub-optimizing behavior makes nonlinear pricing …
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- the latter frequently approaching 100%. Whereas in 1994, the generic price index fell from 100 to 80 in the 12 months … following initial generic entry and by 24 months to 65, in 2009 the comparable generic price indexes are 68 and 27, respectively … Medicare Part D, the average price per prescription declined by 21.3% from 2006 to 2009, rather than increasing by 25-28% as …
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This paper provides the first real-world evidence of Giffen behavior, i.e., upward sloping demand. Subsidizing the prices of dietary staples for extremely poor households in two provinces of China, we find strong evidence of Giffen behavior for rice in Hunan, and weaker evidence for wheat in...
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In a field experiment in Uganda, a free distribution of three health products lowers subsequent demand relative to a sale distribution. This contrasts with work on insecticide-treated bed nets, highlighting the importance of product characteristics in determining pricing policy. We put forward a...
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' willingness to pay for fuel economy using a novel identification strategy and high quality microdata from wholesale used car …, and therefore different remaining lifetimes. By seeing how price differences across high and low mileage vehicles of … different fuel economies change in response to shocks to the price of gasoline, we estimate the relationship between vehicle …
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inattention parameter implied by the price discontinuities. In addition, our results suggest that estimating consumer …
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Temporary price reductions (sales) are common for many goods and naturally result in large increase in the quantity … neglect dynamics, may overestimate price sensitiveness by up to a factor of 2 to 6 …
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A central assumption in public finance is that individuals optimize fully with respect to the incentives created by tax policies. In this paper, we test this assumption using two empirical strategies. First, we conducted an experiment at a grocery store where we posted tax-inclusive prices for...
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, such as quality or price. An attribute is salient for a good when it stands out among the good's characteristics, in the … are characterized by only one quality attribute and price, salience tilts choices toward goods with higher ratios of … quality to price. We use the model to account for a variety of disparate bits of evidence, including decoy effects in consumer …
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