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Behavioral Feedback : Do Individual Choices Influence Scientific Results?

Oster, Emily - 2021

In many health domains, we are concerned that observed links - for example, between “healthy” behaviors and good … vary over time. When a particular health behavior becomes more recommended, the take-up of the behavior may be larger among … people with other positive health behaviors. Such changes in selection would make it even more difficult to learn about …

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The Limits of Simple Implementation Intentions : Evidence from a Field Experiment on Making Plans to Exercise

Carrera, Mariana - 2018

Recent large-scale randomized experiments find that helping people form implementation intentions by asking when and where they plan to act increases one-time actions, such as vaccinations, preventative screenings and voting. We investigate the effect of a simple scalable planning intervention...

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy : A Pragmatic Perspective

Chetty, Raj - 2015

The debate about behavioral economics – the incorporation of insights from psychology into economics – is often framed as a question about the foundational assumptions of economic models. This paper presents a more pragmatic perspective on behavioral economics that focuses on its value for...

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Health and Economic Growth : Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence

Bloom, David E. - 2019

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the effects of health on economic growth. The micro … economic return on health. We reconcile these two strands of literature by showing that the point estimate of the macroeconomic … effect of health is quantitatively close to that found by aggregating the microeconomic effects, when carefully specifying …

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Cigarette Taxes and the Transition from Youth to Adult Smoking : Smoking Initiation, Cessation, and Participation

DeCicca, Philip - 2008

Policy makers continue to advocate and adopt cigarette taxes as a public health measure. Most previous individual …

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Rational Inattention and Sequential Information Sampling

Hébert, Benjamin - 2017

We propose a new principle for measuring the cost of information structures in rational inattention problems, based on the cost of generating the information used to make a decision through a dynamic evidence accumulation process. We introduce a continuous-time model of sequential information...

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Quicksand or Bedrock for Behavioral Economics? Assessing Foundational Empirical Questions

Stango, Victor - 2017

Behavioral economics lacks empirical evidence on some foundational empirical questions. We adapt standard elicitation methods to measure multiple behavioral factors per person in a representative U.S. sample, along with financial condition, cognitive skills, financial literacy, classical...

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Information Costs and Sequential Information Sampling

Hébert, Benjamin - 2018

We propose a new approach to modeling the cost of information structures in rational inattention problems, the "neighborhood-based" cost functions. These cost functions have two properties that we view as desirable: they summarize the results of a sequential evidence accumulation problem, and...

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Self-Confidence and Social Interactions

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2021

This paper studies the interactions between an individual's self esteem and his social environment in the workplace, at school, and in personal relationships. Because a person generally has only imperfect knowledge of his own abilities, people who derive benefits from his performance (parent,...

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Economic Analysis of Social Interactions

Manski, Charles F. - 2021

Economists have long been ambivalent about whether the discipline should focus on the analysis of markets or should be concerned with social interactions more generally. Recently the discipline has sought to broaden its scope while maintaining the rigor of modern economic analysis. Major...

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