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durable goods. We show that consumers' utility and discount functions in a dynamic discrete choice model are jointly … identified using data generated by this specific design. In contrast, based on revealed preference data, the utility and discount …
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being. They are Hicksian equivalents in that the price changes yield the same utility changes as would the quantity or …
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because of inconsistencies in revealed preferences across behavioral frames. We adapt theories of expected utility …
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simple cases, tests confirm that subjects adjust their attention in response to incentives as the theory dictates …
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Revealed preferences are tastes that rationalize an economic agent's observed actions. Normative preferences represent the agent's actual interests. It sometimes makes sense to assume that revealed preferences are identical to normative preferences. But there are many cases where this assumption...
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introduces health-dependent utility into a model in which preferences for bequests, expenditures when in need of long-term care …
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' choices. Because social recognition generates utility from esteem to some but disutility from shame to others, it can be … either positive-sum, zero-sum, or negative-sum. This depends on whether the social recognition utility function is convex … find that the social recognition utility function is significantly concave and thus generates deadweight loss. If our …
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Revealed preference theory offers a criterion for decision-making quality: if decisions are high quality then there … exists a utility function that the choices maximize. We conduct a large-scale field experiment that enables us to test … subjects' choices for consistency with utility maximization and to combine the experimental data with a wide range of …
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We model religious faith as a "demand for beliefs," following the logic of the Pascalian wager. We then demonstrate how an experimental intervention can exploit standard elicitation techniques to measure religious belief by varying prizes associated with making choices contrary to one's belief...
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We study the long-run evolution of brand preferences, using new data on consumers' life histories and purchases of consumer packaged goods. Variation in where consumers have lived in the past allows us to isolate the causal effect of past experiences on current purchases, holding constant...
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