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Smart Thermostats, Automation, and Time-Varying Prices
American Economic Journal: Applied EconomicsCan automation complement economic incentives? We explore this question by randomly encouraging households to activate a feature on their existing smart thermostat that automates responsiveness to time-of-use electricity pricing.
Joshua A. Blonz +3 more
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When Big Data Enables Behavioral Manipulation
American Economic Review: InsightsWe build a model of online behavioral manipulation driven by AI advances. A platform dynamically offers one of n products to a user who slowly learns product quality.
D. Acemoğlu +3 more
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Show Me the Money! A Field Experiment on Electric Vehicle Charge Timing
American Economic Journal: Economic PolicyWe use a field experiment to measure the effectiveness of financial incentives to shift the timing of electric vehicle (EV) charging. EV owners respond strongly to financial incentives, reducing charging during peak hours by 49 percent by shifting to off-
Megan R. Bailey +3 more
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Electric Vehicles and the Energy Transition: Unintended Consequences of Time-of-Use Pricing
American Economic Review: InsightsThe growth of electric vehicles (EVs) raises new challenges for electricity systems. We implement a field experiment to assess the effect of time-of-use (TOU) pricing and managed charging on EV charging behavior.
Megan R. Bailey +4 more
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Understanding Economic Behavior Using Open-Ended Survey Data
Journal of Economic LiteratureWe survey the recent literature in economics using open-ended survey data to uncover mechanisms behind economic beliefs and behaviors. We first provide an overview of different applications, including the measurement of motives, mental models, narratives,
Ingar K. Haaland +3 more
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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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Hedging When Applying: Simultaneous Search with Correlation
The American Economic ReviewApplicants to schools, colleges, and jobs hedge by applying to a broad range of options, including reaches, matches, and safeties. We develop a simultaneous-search framework that rationalizes this practice.
S. N. Ali, Ran I. Shorrer
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Risk Preferences and Field Behavior: The Relevance of Higher-Order Risk Preferences
The American Economic ReviewUsing new methods, we measure the intensities of higher-order risk preferences (prudence and temperance) in an incentivized experiment with 658 adolescents.
Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
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When Do Nudges Increase Welfare?
The American Economic ReviewWe use public finance sufficient statistic approaches to characterize the welfare effects of “nudges,” such as simplified information and warning labels, in markets with taxes and endogenous prices.
H. Allcott +3 more
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The Economics of Infectious Diseases
Journal of Economic LiteratureWe synthesize the literature on economic epidemiology, the interdisciplinary field that draws on the ideas and methods of economics to analyze individual behavior, aggregate disease dynamics, and public policy during infectious disease epidemics.
M. Auld +2 more
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