spending. There exists no positive theory that attempts to explain the high degree of end-of life spending and why differences …

adult life span is about 15 years in the U.S., and theory and evidence suggest it is costly. I calibrate a utility …

This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is … the evaluation of current policies. Our model clarifies a series of puzzles from the literature on the quot;value of …

combines these methods by using observed decisions by experts to reduce the demensionality of the feature space and allow the … categorization of decisions by their propensity score. The fact that the human capital of experts is heterogeneous implies that …

Experts with reputational concerns, even good ones, are averse to admitting what they don't know. This diminishes our … trust in experts and, in turn, the role of science in society. We model the strategic communication of uncertainty, allowing … equilibrium, our model sheds new light on old results about the challenge of getting experts to admit uncertainty – even when it …

Consider an environment where long-lived experts repeatedly interact with short-lived customers. In periods when an … appropriate. We find that there exists an equilibrium in which experts always play truthfully and choose the customer's preferred … with high probability if the previous treatment was minor, and low probability if it was major. If experts have private …

We examine misconduct in credence good markets with price taking experts. We propose a market-level model in which … price-taking experts extract surplus based on the value of their firm's brand and their own skill. We test the predictions … independent experts, despite doing substantially less business. In addition, more experienced experts attract more complaints per …