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Enabling Entrepreneurial Choice
Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2020
Entrepreneurs must choose between alternative strategies for bringing their idea to market. They face uncertainty regarding both the quality of their idea as well as the efficacy of each strategy. While entrepreneurs can reduce this uncertainty by conducting tests, any single test conflates the...
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The Growing Importance of Decision-Making on the Job
Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
demand for decision-making and explores the consequences for life-cycle earnings. Career earnings growth in the U.S. more … substantial share of this shift is explained by increased employment in decision-intensive occupations, which have longer and more … gradual periods of earnings growth. To understand these patterns, I develop a model that nests decision-making in a standard …
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A (Dynamic) Investigation of Stereotypes, Belief-Updating, and Behavior
Coffman, Katherine B.; Ugalde Araya, Paola; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
analyze the dynamic effects of feedback on beliefs about own performance and decision-making across two different domains …
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Who Protests, What Do They Protest, and Why?
Chenoweth, Erica; Hamilton, Barton Hughes; Lee, Hedwig; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine individuals' decisions to attend protests during the summer of 2020. Our analysis examines two simultaneous movements: Black Lives Matter along with protests calling for less stringent public health measures to combat the COVID-19 (e.g., for swifter reopening of businesses). Our...
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Participation and Investment Decisions in a Retirement Plan : The Influence of Colleagues' Choices
Duflo, Esther - 2000
This paper investigates whether peer effects play an important role in retirement savings decisions. We use individual data from the staff of a university to study whether individual decisions to enroll in a Tax Deferred Account plan sponsored by the university (and the choice of the mutual fund...
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The Subjective Inflation Expectations of Households and Firms : Measurement, Determinants, and Implications
Weber, Michael; D'Acunto, Francesco; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...
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A Model of Firms' Decisions to Export or Produce Abroad
Weinblatt, J. - 1980
This paper is a theoretical analysis of the factors influencing production location decisions by a multinational corporation. It starts with a simple model of optimization for a firm facing the choice between exporting and producing abroad a single differentiated final product and then develops...
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An Economic Model of Amniocentesis Choice
Fajnzylber, Eduardo - 2010
Medical practitioners typically utilize the following protocol when advising pregnant women about testing for the possibility of genetic disorders: Pregnant women over the age of 35 should be tested for Down syndrome and other genetic disorders; for younger women, such tests are discouraged...
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Measuring intertemporal preferences using response times
Chabris, Christopher F. - 2008
We use two different approaches to measure intertemporal preferences. First we employ the classical method of inferring preferences from a series of choices (subjects choose between $X now or $Y in D days). Second we adopt the novel approach of inferring preferences using only response time data...
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Optimal Defaults and Active Decisions
Carroll, Gabriel D. - 2005
-inconsistency strengthen the normative appeal of the active-decision enrollment regime. However, financial illiteracy favors default enrollment … over active decision enrollment …
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