Environmental policies based on information provision are widespread, but have often proven ineffective. One possible explanation for information’s low effectiveness is that people actively avoid it. We conduct an online field experiment on air conditioning usage to test the theory of moral...

This dissertation contains four essays about evolutionary learning dynamics and the quantal response model of bounded rationality in game theory.The first essay examines the use of single-agent and representative-agent models to describe the aggregate behavior of heterogeneous quantal...

How do interacting decision-makers make strategic choices? If they're rational and can somehow predict each other's behavior, they may find themselves in a Nash equilibrium. However, humans display pervasive and systematic departures from rationality. They oft􀀵en do not conform to the...