We study search behavior in a generalized "secretary problem" environment in which consumers search sequentially for … make no distributional assumptions about the quality of the alternatives. Rather, at each stage of the search the consumers …. Our study departs from previous experimental investigations of the secretary problem by including search costs and …

This paper develops a dynamic model of consumer search that, despite placing very little structure on the dynamic … problem faced by consumers, allows us to exploit intertemporal variation in within-period price and search cost distributions … to estimate the population distribution from which consumers' search costs are initially drawn. We show that static …