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Warren K. Bickel+2 more
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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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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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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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Behavioral economics uses evidence from psychology and other social sciences to create a precise and fruitful alternative to traditional economic theories, which are based on optimization. Behavioral economics may interest some biologists, as it shifts the basis for theories of economic choice away from logical calculation and maximization and toward ...
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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 ...
Koch, Alexander+2 more
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The Effect of Gift Exchange Theory on Wage Determination
The disciplines of psychology and economics have interacted over time due to their human-oriented approach and have started forming the discipline of behavioral economics since the 1950s.
Muhammed Enes Şaşmaz, Erdem Cam
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Artificial Intelligence and Behavioral Economics: A Bibliographic Analysis of Research Field
Behavioral economics and artificial intelligence (AI) have been two rapidly growing fields of research over the past few years. While behavioral economics aims to combine concepts from psychology, sociology, and neuroscience with classical economic ...
Zakaria Aoujil+4 more
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