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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911692
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867458
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771795
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The Importance of Psychology in Economic Activity : Evidence from Terrorist Attacks
Ahern, Kenneth R. - 2018
Terrorist attacks influence economic growth and individual psychology. However, identifying the direct effect of terrorism on economics and psychology is difficult because institutions also change in response to terrorist attacks. This paper controls for institutional responses to terrorist...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927023
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Dishonest Behavior : Sin Big or Go Home
Aimone, Jason - 2019
Economic agents face many different types of economic incentives when making financial and moral decisions. We provide experimental data from a population that uniquely responds to incentives to lie compared to previously studied populations. We conduct a standard 6-sided die rolling lying study...
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Inattentive Producers
Reis, Ricardo - 2021
I present and solve the problem of a producer who faces costs of acquiring, absorbing, and processing information. I establish a series of theoretical results describing the producer's behavior. First, I find the conditions under which she prefers to set a plan for the price she charges, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232759
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Risky Behavior Among Youths : An Economic Analysis
Gruber, Jonathan - 2021
There are a host of potentially risky behaviors in which youth engage, which have important implications for both their well being as youth and their life prospects. The past decade has seen dramatic shifts in the intensity with which youths pursue these risky activities: for example, youth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234927
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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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