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in California and show it decreased registration rates. Similarly, a "field in the lab" experiment run on actual organ …
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neural responses to the pertinent prospects when they are not engaged in actual decision making. The ability to make such …
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observable exogenous causes. We explore an alternative approach that generates predictions based on relationships across decision … experiment, we find that this method yields accurate estimates of price sensitivities for a collection of products under …
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We introduce a new experimental paradigm to evaluate employer preferences, called Incentivized Resume Rating (IRR). Employers evaluate resumes they know to be hypothetical in order to be matched with real job seekers, preserving incentives while avoiding the deception necessary in audit studies....
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experiment, face-to-face communication with a randomly assigned peer significantly improves the quality of private decisions … transmits financial decision-making skills most effectively when peers are equally uninformed, rather than when an informed … decision maker teaches an uninformed peer. Qualitative analysis of subjects' discussions supports this interpretation. The …
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versus equal outcomes). In a laboratory experiment, the most common behavioral pattern is for subjects to select the ex ante …
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We study a large-scale (n=50,000) natural field experiment implemented by the U.S. Social Security Administration that …
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attentive and develop quantitative tests of rational inattention that we deploy in two experiments. The first is an experiment … and incentives to make plans to complete the modules. The second is an online survey-completion experiment (n=944), in … rationality, indicating that people underuse attention-increasing tools. In our second experiment, we estimate that individuals …
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This paper provides evidence concerning the extent to which consumers of liquor employ commitment devices. One widely recommended commitment strategy is to regulate alcohol consumption by deliberately manipulating availability. The paper assesses the prevalence of the "availability strategy" by...
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A rich literature explores gender differences between men and women, but an increasing share of the population identifies their gender in some other way. Analyzing data on roughly 10,000 students and 1,500 adults, we find that such gender minorities are less confident and provide less favorable...
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