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Preferences for Firearms and Their Implications for Regulation
Moshary, Sarah; Shapiro, Bradley; Drango, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper estimates consumer demand for firearms with the aim of predicting the likely impacts of firearm regulations on the number and types of guns in circulation. We first conduct a stated-choice-based conjoint analysis and estimate an individual-level demand model for firearms. We validate...
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The Political Economy of a "Miracle Cure" : The Case of Nebulized Ibuprofen and its Diffusion in Argentina
Calónico, Sebastian; Di Tella, Rafael; Lopez del … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We document the diffusion of nebulized ibuprofen in Argentina as a treatment for COVID-19. As the pandemic spread, this clinically unsupported drug reached thousands of patients, even some seriously ill, despite warnings by the regulator and medical societies. Detailed daily data on deliveries...
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Behavioral Feedback : Do Individual Choices Influence Scientific Results?
Oster, Emily - 2018
In many health domains, we are concerned that observed links - for example, between "healthy" behaviors and good outcomes - are driven by selection into behavior. This paper considers the additional factor that these selection patterns may vary over time. When a particular health behavior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480876
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Willpower and the Optimal Control of Visceral Urges
Ozdenoren, Emre - 2006
Common intuition and experimental psychology suggest that the ability to self-regulate, willpower, is a depletable resource. We investigate the behavior of an agent who optimally consumes a cake (or paycheck or workload) over time and who recognizes that restraining his consumption too much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466390
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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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CHOICE – What Can Go Wrong?
McFadden, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The elegant economic picture of rational consumers achieving Pareto optimality through trade in decentralized self-organized markets is blurred by market imperfections and choices inconsistent with consumer self-interest. Behavioral economics has documented these errors in choice, and considered...
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Lifetime Memories of Inflation : Evidence from Surveys and the Lab
Salle, Isabelle; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Coibion, Olivier - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
laboratory experiments. Recalling having lived through prior disinflations has pronounced effects on how long-lived people expect … experiments and discuss the pros and cons of each method, emphasizing the general consistency across the two methodologies …
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Digital Advertising and Market Structure : Implications for Privacy Regulation
Deisenroth, Daniel; Manjeer, Utsav; Sohail, Zarak; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
. Privacy concerns have prompted regulations that restrict the use of personal data. To inform these policy debates, we develop … an equilibrium model of advertising and market structure to analyze the impact of privacy regulation on market outcomes … potential harms to both firms and consumers from privacy regulation …
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What's Driving the New Economy : The Benefits of Workplace Innovation
Black, Sandra E. - 2000
Using a unique nationally representative sample of U.S. establishments surveyed in 1993 and 1996, we examine the relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. We match plant level practices with plant level productivity and wage outcomes and estimate...
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A Growth Model of the Data Economy
Farboodi, Maryam; Veldkamp, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The rise of information technology and big data analytics has given rise to "the new economy." But are its economics new? This article constructs a growth model where firms accumulate data, instead of capital. We incorporate three key features of data: 1) Data is a by-product of economic...
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