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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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Using Behavioral Economic Field Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier : The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project

Burks, Stephen V. - 2018

The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...

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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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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...

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Behavioral Law and Economics

Jolls, Christine M. - 2010

economics, health economics, and law and economics. This paper describes and assesses the current state of behavioral law and …

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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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