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Behavioral Economics and Health Economics [PDF]

open access: green, 2012
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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Behavioral Economics [PDF]

open access: bronzeSSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
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]

open access: greenJournal of Labor Economics, 1984
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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Toward Choice-Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics [PDF]

open access: green, 2007
Interest in behavioral economics has grown in recent years, stimulated largely by accumulating evidence that the standard model of consumer decision making provides an inadequate, positive description of human behavior. Behavioral models are increasingly
B. Douglas Bernheim, Antonio Rangel
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How can a behavioral economics lens contribute to implementation science?

open access: yesImplementation Science
Background Implementation science in health is an interdisciplinary field with an emphasis on supporting behavior change required when clinicians and other actors implement evidence-based practices within organizational constraints.
Nathan Hodson   +3 more
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Economics Imperialism under the Impact of Psychology: The Case of Behavioral Development Economics

open access: diamondŒconomia, 2013
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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BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS [PDF]

open access: greenJournal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1995
Warren K. Bickel   +2 more
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Behavioral Economics: Implications for Regulatory Behavior [PDF]

open access: greenSSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
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]

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2009
. 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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