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Private lives: experimental evidence on information completeness in spousal preferences
Experimental work using real married couples has shown that efficiency in intra-household allocations is influenced by information asymmetry between...
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On the stability of risk and time preferences amid the COVID-19 pandemic
We elicited incentivized measures of risk and time preferences from a sample of undergraduate students in Athens, Greece, in waves that preceded and...
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Evolution of preferences in multiple populations
We study the evolution of preferences in multi-population settings that allow matches across distinct populations. Each individual has subjective...
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Discounting the Future: On Climate Change, Ambiguity Aversion and Epstein–Zin Preferences
We show that ambiguity aversion and deviations from standard expected time separable utility have a major impact on estimates of the willingness to...
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Quasi-separable preferences
Utility functions often lack additive separability, presenting an obstacle for decision theoretic axiomatizations. We address this challenge by...
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The distributional preferences of Americans, 2013–2016
We study the distributional preferences of Americans during 2013–2016, a period of social and economic upheaval. We decompose preferences into two...
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Religion and Economic Preferences
This chapter provides an overview of the literature on the relationship between religion and economic preferences. It first discusses two dimensions...
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Avoiding the cost of your conscience: belief dependent preferences and information acquisition
Pro-social individuals typically face a trade-off between their monetary incentives and their other-regarding preferences. When this is the case,...
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I won’t make the same mistake again: burnout history and job preferences
The burnout literature has focused on the determinants of burnout, whereas its careers consequences remain understudied. Therefore, we investigate...
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Decision-making under risk: when is utility-maximization equivalent to risk-minimization?
Motivated by the analysis of a general optimal portfolio selection problem, which encompasses as special cases an optimal consumption and an optimal...
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Committee Preferences and Information Acquisition
We study committees whose task is to make a binary decision where the correct decision depends on the state of the world that is imperfectly known....
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A general revealed preference test for quasilinear preferences: theory and experiments
We provide a generalized revealed preference test for quasilinear preferences. The test applies to nonlinear budget sets and non-convex preferences...
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The Preference Survey Module: evidence on social preferences from Tehran
We provide evidence on the extent to which survey items in the Preference Survey Module and the resulting Global Preference Survey measuring social...
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Traffic light nutrition labeling preferences among children
ObjectiveThis study evaluates the effects of traffic light (TL) nutritional label attributes on children’s food choices. Data were collected from a...
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Optimal e-cigarette policy when preferences and internalities are correlated
This paper studies the policy implications of correlation between preferences and internalities in the context of tobacco products. Using novel...
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Stated Preferences with Survey Consequentiality and Outcome Uncertainty: A Split Sample Discrete Choice Experiment
Stated preference studies are often based on the assumptions that proposed outcomes would realize with certainty and respondents believe their survey...
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Contracting in Continuous Time: Time-Additive Preferences
We briefly introduce an alternative contracting model with time-additive preferences. We study a case that can produce a closed-form solution, and...
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Do unilateral trade preferences help reduce poverty in beneficiary countries?
This paper has investigated the utilization of non-reciprocal (or unilateral) trade preferences (NRTPs) provided by QUAD countries on poverty in...
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Customer preferences heterogeneity toward avocado: a latent class approach based on the best–worst scaling choice modeling
Consumption of the avocado fruit and its availability in the retail market has increased in recent decades and with it the desire to learn more about...
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Delegated risk-taking, accountability, and outcome bias
In a sequence of experiments, this study investigates how people evaluate others who make risky decisions on their behalf, and how such evaluations...
