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Employment as a Drug Abuse Treatment Intervention : A Behavioral Economic Analysis
Silverman, Kenneth - 1998
Epidemiological data and experimental research in the fields of operant conditioning and behavioral economics suggest …
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Cognitive Economics
Kimball, Miles S. - 2015
Cognitive Economics is the economics of what is in people's minds. It is a vibrant area of research (much of it within … Behavioral Economics, Labor Economics and the Economics of Education) that brings into play novel types of data--especially novel … Welfare Economics. A key theme of Cognitive Economics is finite cognition (often misleadingly called "bounded rationality …
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Applying Insights from Behavioral Economics to Policy Design
Madrian, Brigitte C. - 2014
The premise of this article is that an understanding of psychology and other social science disciplines can inform the effectiveness of the economic tools traditionally deployed in carrying out the functions of government, which include remedying market failures, redistributing income, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458348
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Risky Behavior Among Youths : An Economic Analysis
Gruber, Jonathan - 2000
-choice economics, developmental psychology, and behavioral economics. I then discuss both cross-sectional and time series evidence on …
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,...
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Economic Analysis of Social Interactions
Manski, Charles F. - 2000
rigor of modern economic analysis. Major theoretical developments in game theory, the economics of the family, and …
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Peer Effects with Random Assignment : Results for Dartmouth Roommates
Sacerdote, Bruce - 2000
This paper uses a unique data set to measure peer effects among college age roommates. Freshman year roommates and dormmates are randomly assigned at Dartmouth College. I find that in this group, peer effects are very important in determining levels of academic effort and in decisions to join...
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Valuing the Time of the Self-Employed
Agness, Daniel; Baseler, Travis; Chassang, Sylvain; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
People's value for their own time is a key input in evaluating public policies: evaluations should account for time taken away from work or leisure as a result of policy. Using rich choice data collected from farming households in western Kenya, we show that households exhibit non-transitive...
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Exposure, Experience, and Expertise : Why Personal Histories Matter in Economics
Malmendier, Ulrike - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
education, health, race, and gender economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660014
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Modeling Behavior during a Pandemic : Using HIV as an Historical Analogy
Papageorge, Nicholas W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
epidemiological processes that do incorporate behavior change or health-wealth tradeoffs (mostly from economics) drastically limit … and economics (among other fields), I propose a framework adapted from earlier work on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Analysis of …
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