subject to omitted variable bias despite the inclusion of control variables. If the direction of omitted variable bias were … modest than retrospective studies suggest. Bias appears to be reduced by a differences-in-differences estimator that examines …

neural responses to the pertinent prospects when they are not engaged in actual decision making. The ability to make such …

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 …

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 …

versus equal outcomes). In a laboratory experiment, the most common behavioral pattern is for subjects to select the ex ante …

almost 60 years, for both the affected cohorts and for their children. To do this, we exploit a natural experiment provided …