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Behavioral welfare economics [PDF]
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Bernheim Douglas B.
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Behavioral Economics is the combination of psychology and economics that investigates what happens in markets in which some of the agents display human limitations and complications. We begin with a preliminary question about relevance. Does some combination of market forces, learning and evolution render these human qualities irrelevant? No.
Sendhil Mullainathan, Richard H. Thaler
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The Economics of Retirement Behavior [PDF]
This paper examines the role of economic factors in determining retirement behavior using a unique new data archive on more than 8,700 workers covered by ten different pension plans. We build on our earlier work by estimating several different retirement models including linear as well as discrete choice formulations.
Olivia S. Mitchell, Gary S. Fields
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Behavioral economics of education [PDF]
AbstractDuring the last decade knowledge about human behavior from psychology and sociology has enhanced the field of economics of education. By now research recognizes cognitive skills (as measured by achievement tests) and soft skills (personality traits not adequately measured by achievement tests) as equally important drivers of later economic ...
Alexander K. Koch+2 more
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Behavioral Economics and Health Economics [PDF]
The health sector is filled with institutions and decision-making circumstances that create friction in markets and cognitive errors by decision makers. This paper examines the potential contributions to health economics of the ideas of behavioral economics.
Richard G. Frank
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Economics Imperialism under the Impact of Psychology: The Case of Behavioral Development Economics
Economics imperialism is broadly explained as economics having an impact on other disciplines. But how should economics imperialism be understood when it is in some sense the product of other disciplines having an impact on economics?
John B. Davis
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Warren K. Bickel+2 more
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Behavioral Economics: Implications for Regulatory Behavior [PDF]
Behavioral economics (BE) examines the implications for decision-making when actors suffer from biases documented in the psychological literature. This article considers how such biases affect regulatory decisions. The article posits a simple model of a regulator who serves as an agent to a political overseer.
James Cooper, William E. Kovacic
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Dopamine, behavioral economics, and effort [PDF]
. There are numerous problems with the hypothesis that brain dopamine (DA) systems, particularly in the nucleus accumbens, directly mediate the rewarding or primary motivational characteristics of natural stimuli such as food.
John D Salamone+4 more
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A Critical Review on the Book The Principles of Behavioral Economics: Individual Decision-Making [PDF]
Recent years have experienced affluent literature in behavioral economics in Persian scope. The Principles of Behavioral Economics: Individual Decision-Making written by Maryam Haji-MollaDarvish is one of these works which is reviewed and criticized in ...
Ali Saeedi
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