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The nature of risk preferences : evidence from insurance choices

Barseghyan, Levon; Molinari, Francesca; O'Donoghue, Ted; … - 2011

We use data on households' deductible choices in auto and home insurance to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates "standard" risk aversion (concave utility over final wealth), loss aversion, and nonlinear probability weighting. Our estimates indicate that nonlinear...

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The nature of risk preferences : evidence from insurance choices

Barseghyan, Levon; Molinari, Francesca; O'Donoghue, Ted; … - 2012

We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates "standard" risk aversion (diminishing marginal utility for wealth) and probability distortions. We find that probability distortions - characterized by substantial overweighting of small...

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Swingin' in the Rain : The Impact of Inclement Weather on Voting Behavior in U.S. Presidential Elections

Duhaime, Erik - 2018

While political experts have long claimed that bad weather lowers voter turnout, the impact of weather on U.S. election … weather affects election outcomes not through its effect on turnout — as has long been assumed — but rather, through its … psychological effect on swing voters. Specifically, we find evidence that bad weather increases regret aversion among supporters of …

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Projection bias in the car and housing markets

Busse, Meghan R.; Pope, Devin G.; Pope, Jaren C.; … - 2012

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Projection bias in catalog orders

Conlin, Michael; O'Donoghue, Ted; Vogelsang, Timothy J. - In: The American economic review 97 (2007) 4, pp. 1217-1249

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The psychological effect of weather on car purchases

Busse, Meghan R.; Pope, Devin G.; Pope, Jaren C.; … - In: The quarterly journal of economics 130 (2015) 1, pp. 371-414

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The geography of consumption

Agarwal, Sumit; Jensen, J. Bradford; Monte, Ferdinando - 2017

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Something to talk about : social spillovers in movie consumption

Gilchrist, Duncan Sheppard; Sands, Emily Glassberg - In: Journal of political economy 124 (2016) 5, pp. 1339-1382

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The geography of consumption

Agarwal, Sumit; Jensen, J. Bradford; Monte, Ferdinando - 2017

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The Effects of Competition Outcomes on Health : Evidence from the Lifespans of U.S. Olympic Medalists

Kalwij, Adriaan - 2017

This paper investigates the effects of competition outcomes on health by using U.S. Olympic medalist lifespans and medal colors as a natural experiment. Whereas the life expectancies of bronze and gold medalists do not differ significantly, life expectancy of silver medalists is about 2.4 and...

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