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Cognitive Uncertainty in Intertemporal Choice

Enke, Benjamin; Graeber, Thomas Wilhelm - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

when a decision is complex, they implicitly treat different time delays to some degree alike. By experimentally measuring … when the decision environment is more complex. Third, cognitive uncertainty matters for choice architecture: people who are …

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Cognitive Economics

Kimball, Miles S. - 2015

Welfare Economics. A key theme of Cognitive Economics is finite cognition (often misleadingly called "bounded rationality …

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Numeracy, financial literacy, and financial decision-making

Lusardi, Annamaria - 2012

Financial decisions, be they related to asset building or debt management, require the capacity to do calculations, including some complex ones. But how numerate are individuals, in particular when it comes to calculations related to financial decisions? Studies and surveys implemented in both...

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Salience

Bordalo, Pedro; Gennaioli, Nicola; Shleifer, Andrei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

attention can distort economic choice by distracting decision makers from their immediate goals or from certain choice …

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Genetic Risk for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias : Cognition, Economic Behavior, and Clinically Actionable Information

Jeong, Yeongmi; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Skira, Meghan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Genetic factors play a major role in the development of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). Observable genetic factors could impact household planning and medical care if they contain actionable information, meaning that they i) are associated with significant harms, ii) reflect...

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Bad Luck or Bad Decisions? Macroeconomic Implications of Persistent Heterogeneity in Cognitive Skills and Overconfidence

Pfäuti, Oliver; Seyrich, Fabian; Zinman, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Business cycle models often abstract from persistent household heterogeneity, despite its potentially significant implications for macroeconomic fluctuations and policy. We show empirically that the likelihood of being persistently financially constrained decreases with cognitive skills and...

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We are all Behavioral, More or Less : A Taxonomy of Consumer Decision Making

Stango, Victor - 2020

We examine how 17 behavioral biases relate to each other, to other decision inputs, and to decision outputs. Most … personality traits--with some expected exceptions. Accounting for this correlation structure, we reduce our 29 decision inputs to … this taxonomy for various approaches to modeling influences of behavioral biases on decision making …

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Optimism and Economic Choice

Puri, Manju - 2005

This paper presents some of the first large-scale survey evidence linking optimism to major economic choices. We create a novel measure of optimism using the Survey of Consumer Finance by comparing a person's self-reported life expectancy to that implied by statistical tables. Optimists are more...

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Dominated Choices and Medicare Advantage Enrollment

Afendulis, Christopher - 2014

revisiting prior choices, can lead to decision errors. This paper explores the enrollment decisions of Medicare beneficiaries in …

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Identifying the Role of Cognitive Ability in Explaining the Level of and Change in the Return to Schooling

Heckman, James - 2000

This paper considers two problems that arise in determining the role of ability in explaining the level of and change in the rate of return to schooling. (1) Ability and schooling are so strongly dependent that it is not possible, over a wide range of variation in schooling and ability, to...

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