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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 … vary over time. When a particular health behavior becomes more recommended, the take-up of the behavior may be larger among … people with other positive health behaviors. Such changes in selection would make it even more difficult to learn about …
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The Limits of Simple Implementation Intentions : Evidence from a Field Experiment on Making Plans to Exercise
Carrera, Mariana - 2018
Recent large-scale randomized experiments find that helping people form implementation intentions by asking when and where they plan to act increases one-time actions, such as vaccinations, preventative screenings and voting. We investigate the effect of a simple scalable planning intervention...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480612
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Health and Economic Growth : Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence
Bloom, David E. - 2019
Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the effects of health on economic growth. The micro … economic return on health. We reconcile these two strands of literature by showing that the point estimate of the macroeconomic … effect of health is quantitatively close to that found by aggregating the microeconomic effects, when carefully specifying …
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How People Use Statistics
Bordalo, Pedro; Conlon, John; Gennaioli, Nicola; Kwon, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We document two new facts about the distributions of answers in famous statistical problems: they are i) multi-modal and ii) unstable with respect to irrelevant changes in the problem. We offer a model in which, when solving a problem, people represent each hypothesis by attending "bottom up" to...
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Risky Behavior Among Youths : An Economic Analysis
Gruber, Jonathan - 2000
There are a host of potentially risky behaviors in which youth engage, which have important implications for both their well being as youth and their life prospects. The past decade has seen dramatic shifts in the intensity with which youths pursue these risky activities: for example, youth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470969
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Self-Confidence and Social Interactions
Benabou, Roland - 2000
This paper studies the interactions between an individual's self esteem and his social environment in the workplace, at school, and in personal relationships. Because a person generally has only imperfect knowledge of his own abilities, people who derive benefits from his performance (parent,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471184
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Economic Analysis of Social Interactions
Manski, Charles F. - 2000
Economists have long been ambivalent about whether the discipline should focus on the analysis of markets or should be concerned with social interactions more generally. Recently the discipline has sought to broaden its scope while maintaining the rigor of modern economic analysis. Major...
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Dishonest Behavior : Sin Big or Go Home
Aimone, Jason A. - 2019
Economic agents face many different types of economic incentives when making financial and moral decisions. We provide experimental data from a population that uniquely responds to incentives to lie compared to previously studied populations. We conduct a standard 6-sided die rolling lying study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479697
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The Importance of Psychology in Economic Activity : Evidence from Terrorist Attacks
Ahern, Kenneth R. - 2018
Terrorist attacks influence economic growth and individual psychology. However, identifying the direct effect of terrorism on economics and psychology is difficult because institutions also change in response to terrorist attacks. This paper controls for institutional responses to terrorist...
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Using Behavioral Economic Field Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier : The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project
Burks, Stephen V. - 2007
The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...
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