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Decisions under Risk Are Decisions under Complexity
The American Economic ReviewWe provide evidence that classic lottery anomalies like probability weighting and loss aversion are not special phenomena of risk. They also arise (and often with equal strength) when subjects evaluate deterministic, positive monetary payments that have ...
Ryan Oprea
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American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
The United States has a severe shortage of organs for transplant. Recently—inspired by research based on hypothetical choices— jurisdictions have tried to increase organ donor registrations by changing how the registration question is asked.
J. Kessler, Alvin E. Roth
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The United States has a severe shortage of organs for transplant. Recently—inspired by research based on hypothetical choices— jurisdictions have tried to increase organ donor registrations by changing how the registration question is asked.
J. Kessler, Alvin E. Roth
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Reference Dependence and Attribution Bias: Evidence from Real-Effort Experiments
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2023We document a form of attribution bias wherein people wrongly ascribe sensations of positive or negative surprise to the underlying disutility of a real-effort task.
Benjamin Bushong, Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch
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Linking Social and Personal Preferences: Theory and Experiment
Journal of Political EconomyThe goal of this paper is to link attitude toward risk over personal consumption with attitude toward risk over social consumptions. Because many everyday choices involve risk, these attitudes enter virtually every realm of individual decision-making. We
W. Zame +4 more
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The U-Shaped Charitable-Giving Curve
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2023Is charitable giving U-shaped in income? That is, do low- and high-income households donate a higher fraction of their income to charity than the middle class?
E. Hargaden, Nicolas J. Duquette
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The Joint Effect of Pay Range Disclosure Width and Gender on Job Applications
Accounting HorizonsPay range disclosures are increasingly common on job postings around the world, due in part to new disclosure laws that aim to reduce labor market inequities.
Darren Bernard, Joe Croom, Benjamin Yang
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The Opportunity Cost of Debt Aversion
Social Science Research NetworkWe provide evidence of the existence of debt aversion and its negative implications for financial decisions. In a new experimental design where subjects are assigned debt randomly, we quantify the opportunity cost of subjects’ debt-biased decisions.
Alejandro Martínez-Marquina, M. Shi
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A Revealed Preference Test for Choquet and Max-Min Expected Utility with Ambiguity Aversion
American Economic Journal: MicroeconomicsWe develop a revealed preference test for the Choquet expected utility model with ambiguity aversion, which does not rely on specific functional form assumptions on the utility index.
T. Demuynck, Clément Staner
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A Kinky Consistency: Experimental Evidence of Behavior under Linear and Nonlinear Budget Constraints
American Economic Journal: MicroeconomicsIndividuals face nonlinear incentives in myriad situations. We test a fundamental assumption in such settings: that individuals display stable preferences when facing linear and nonlinear incentives.
Emiliano Huet-Vaughn +2 more
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Limited Strategic Thinking and the Cursed Match
American Economic Journal: MicroeconomicsIn vertically differentiated matching markets with private information, agents face an acceptance curse: being accepted as a partner conveys bad news.
Olivier Bochet, Jacopo Magnani
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