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Microeconomics: General


2012
w17804 Robert W. Fairlie
Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman

Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

w17778 Gary B. Gorton
Andrew Metrick

Getting up to Speed on the Financial Crisis: A One-Weekend-Reader's Guide

w17762 B. Douglas Bernheim
Jonathan Meer
Neva K. Novarro

Do Consumers Exploit Precommitment Opportunities? Evidence from Natural Experiments Involving Liquor Consumption

w17761 Pedro Bordalo
Nicola Gennaioli
Andrei Shleifer

Salience in Experimental Tests of the Endowment Effect


2011
w17648 James Andreoni
Justin M. Rao
Hannah Trachtman

Avoiding The Ask: A Field Experiment on Altruism, Empathy, and Charitable Giving

w17636 Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis
Robert Slonim

Rewarding Altruism? A Natural Field Experiment

w17624 James W. Roberts
Andrew Sweeting

When Should Sellers Use Auctions?

w17587 B. Douglas Bernheim
Andrey Fradkin
Igor Popov

The Welfare Economics of Default Options: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of 401(k) Plans

w17585 Julio J. Rotemberg
Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity are Linked

w17569 Joseph E. Aldy
Robert Stavins

The Promise and Problems of Pricing Carbon: Theory and Experience

w17545 Ernst Fehr
Oliver D. Hart
Christian Zehnder

How Do Informal Agreements and Renegotiation Shape Contractual Reference Points?

w17535 James B. Rebitzer
Mark E. Votruba

Organizational Economics and Physician Practices

w17477 Lars Lefgren
Brennan Platt
Joseph Price

Sticking with What (Barely) Worked

w17475 Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman

List Randomization for Sensitive Behavior: An Application for Measuring Use of Loan Proceeds

w17473 Craig E. Landry
Andreas Lange
John A. List
Michael K. Price
Nicholas G. Rupp

The Hidden Benefits of Control: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

w17472 Craig E. Landry
Andreas Lange
John A. List
Michael K. Price
Nicholas G. Rupp

Is There a 'Hidden Cost of Control' in Naturally-Occurring Markets? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

w17465 Daniel Gottlieb
Kent Smetters

Grade Non-Disclosure

w17406 Gregory J. Colman
Dhaval M. Dave

Exercise, Physical Activity, and Exertion over the Business Cycle

w17345 John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian
Katherine L. Milkman

The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions

w17324 Judd B. Kessler
Alvin E. Roth

Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate

w17244 Anneke Exterkate
Robin L. Lumsdaine

How Survey Design Affects Inference Regarding Health Perceptions and Outcomes

w17193 Steven T. Berry
Amit Gandhi
Philip Haile

Connected Substitutes and Invertibility of Demand

w17189 Paul J. Ferraro
Michael K. Price

Using Non-Pecuniary Strategies to Influence Behavior: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment

w17183 Katherine L. Milkman
John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

Using Implementation Intentions Prompts to Enhance Influenza Vaccination Rates

w17163 Andrew Caplin
Daniel Martin

A Testable Theory of Imperfect Perception

w17098 Alberto F. Alesina
Paola Giuliano
Nathan Nunn

On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough

w17083 Garth Heutel
Optimal Policy Instruments for Externality-Producing Durable Goods Under Time Inconsistency

w17081 John Cawley
Christopher Ruhm

The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

w17030 Nicola Lacetera
Devin G. Pope
Justin R. Sydnor

Heuristic Thinking and Limited Attention in the Car Market

w17020 Ximena Cadena
Antoinette Schoar

Remembering to Pay? Reminders vs. Financial Incentives for Loan Payments

w17018 Jeffrey R. Brown
Arie Kapteyn
Olivia S. Mitchell

Framing Effects and Expected Social Security Claiming Behavior

w17017 Charles D. Kolstad
Public Goods Agreements with Other-Regarding Preferences

w16944 Ximena Cadena
Antoinette Schoar
Alexandra Cristea
Héber M. Delgado-Medrano

Fighting Procrastination in the Workplace: An Experiment

w16934 Edward L. Glaeser
Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
Kristina Tobio

Cities, Skills, and Regional Change

w16917 Lex Borghans
Bart H.H. Golsteyn
James J. Heckman
John Eric Humphries

Identification Problems in Personality Psychology

w16911 Xavier Gabaix
A Sparsity-Based Model of Bounded Rationality

w16908 John A. List
Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies? The Case of Exogenous Market Experience

w16907 Yuyu Chen
Ginger Zhe Jin
Naresh Kumar
Guang Shi

The Promise of Beijing: Evaluating the Impact of the 2008 Olympic Games on Air Quality

w16887 Erin Todd Bronchetti
Thomas S. Dee
David B. Huffman
Ellen Magenheim

When a Nudge Isn’t Enough: Defaults and Saving Among Low-Income Tax Filers

w16791 Syngjoo Choi
Shachar Kariv
Wieland Müller
Dan Silverman

Who Is (More) Rational?

w16735 Pablo T. Spiller
Transaction Cost Regulation

w16720 Itai Ashlagi
Alvin E. Roth

Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchange


2010
w16637 Michael McBride
Gary Richardson

Stopping Suicide Attacks: Optimal Strategies and Unintended Consequences

w16624 Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert
Erik Blumenkranz
Alan M. Garber

Committing to Exercise: Contract Design for Virtuous Habit Formation

w16620 Julio J. Rotemberg
A Behavioral Model of Demandable Deposits and its Implications for Financial Regulation

w16571 David K. Levine
Production Chains

w16560 Morris M. Kleiner
Kyoung Won Park

Battles Among Licensed Occupations: Analyzing Government Regulations on Labor Market Outcomes for Dentists and Hygienists

w16556 Alvin E. Roth
Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions

w16489 Daniel J. Benjamin
Ori Heffetz
Miles S. Kimball
Alex Rees-Jones

Do People Seek to Maximize Happiness? Evidence from New Surveys

w16387 Pedro Bordalo
Nicola Gennaioli
Andrei Shleifer

Salience Theory of Choice Under Risk

w16360 Andreas Lange
John A. List
Michael K. Price

Auctions with Resale When Private Values Are Uncertain: Evidence from the Lab and Field

w16319 Omar Al-Ubaydli
John A. List
Michael K. Price

The Nature of Excess: Using Randomized Treatments to Investigate Price Dynamics

w16277 Raquel Fernández
Does Culture Matter?

w16214 Ravi Jagannathan
Andrei Jirnyi
Ann Sherman

Why Don't Issuers Choose IPO Auctions? The Complexity of Indirect Mechanisms

w16181 Larry G. Epstein
Martin Schneider

Ambiguity and Asset Markets

w16049 Lewis A. Kornhauser
W. Bentley MacLeod

Contracts between Legal Persons

w16038 John A. List
Michael S. Haigh

Investment under Uncertainty: Testing the Options Model with Professional Traders

w16028 Fuhito Kojima
Parag A. Pathak
Alvin E. Roth

Matching with Couples: Stability and Incentives in Large Markets

w16025 John F. Helliwell
Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh

How Much is Social Capital Worth?

w15978 Dora L. Costa
Matthew E. Kahn

Why Has California’s Residential Electricity Consumption Been So Flat since the 1980s?: A Microeconometric Approach

w15973 Abhijit Banerjee
Sendhil Mullainathan

The Shape of Temptation: Implications for the Economic Lives of the Poor

w15923 Erik Snowberg
Justin Wolfers

Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias: Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?

w15912 Lucian A. Bebchuk
Alma Cohen
Charles C.Y. Wang

Learning and the Disappearing Association Between Governance and Returns

w15911 John F. Helliwell
Shun Wang

Trust and Well-being

w15878 Edward P. Lazear
Why Do Inventories Rise When Demand Falls in Housing and Other Markets?

w15846 N. Gregory Mankiw
Spreading the Wealth Around: Reflections Inspired by Joe the Plumber

w15794 Joshua Angrist
Jörn-Steffen Pischke

The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design is Taking the Con out of Econometrics

w15785 Thomas Philippon
Vasiliki Skreta

Optimal Interventions in Markets with Adverse Selection

w15748 Gerard Padró i Miquel
Pierre Yared

The Political Economy of Indirect Control

w15720 Yang Lu
Dana Goldman

The Effects of Relative Food Prices on Obesity — Evidence from China: 1991-2006

w15719 Attila Ambrus
Markus Mobius
Adam Szeidl

Consumption Risk-sharing in Social Networks

w15659 Ulrike Malmendier
Geoffrey Tate
Jonathan Yan

Overconfidence and Early-life Experiences: The Impact of Managerial Traits on Corporate Financial Policies


2009
w15623 Tanjim Hossain
John A. List

The Behavioralist Visits the Factory: Increasing Productivity Using Simple Framing Manipulations

w15610 Steven D. Levitt
John A. List
Sally E. Sadoff

Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players

w15609 Steven D. Levitt
John A. List
David H. Reiley
Jr.

What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments

w15497 David Card
Gordon Dahl

Family Violence and Football: The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior

w15460 Giovanni Maggi
Robert W. Staiger

Breach, Remedies and Dispute Settlement in Trade Agreements

w15347 Kenneth Kovash
Steven D. Levitt

Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League

w15344 Jeffrey Butler
Paola Giuliano
Luigi Guiso

The Right Amount of Trust

w15333 Douglas W. Blackburn
William N. Goetzmann
Andrey D. Ukhov

Risk Aversion and Clientele Effects

w15328 William Congdon
Jeffrey R. Kling
Sendhil Mullainathan

Behavioral Economics and Tax Policy

w15298 Stefano DellaVigna
Matthew Gentzkow

Persuasion: Empirical Evidence

w15131 Esther Duflo
Michael Kremer
Jonathan Robinson

Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya

w15112 W. Bentley MacLeod
Miguel Urquiola

Anti-Lemons: School Reputation and Educational Quality

w15104 Filipe Campante
Edward L. Glaeser

Yet Another Tale of Two Cities: Buenos Aires and Chicago

w15103 Edward L. Glaeser
Matthew G. Resseger

The Complementarity between Cities and Skills

w15084 Nicola Gennaioli
Andrei Shleifer

What Comes to Mind

w15079 Jingjing Chai
Wolfram Horneff
Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell

Extending Life Cycle Models of Optimal Portfolio Choice: Integrating Flexible Work, Endogenous Retirement, and Investment Decisions with Lifetime Payouts

w15065 William A. Brock
Steven N. Durlauf

Adoption Curves and Social Interactions

w15061 Ryan L. Lampe
Petra Moser

Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry

w15051 Randall Morck
Generalized Agency Problems

w15016 Steven D. Levitt
John A. List

Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments

w14987 John Cawley
Joshua A. Price

Outcomes in a Program that Offers Financial Rewards for Weight Loss

w14955 Bruce Ian Carlin
David T. Robinson

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Evidence from Blackjack Tables

w14947 Nicholas C. Barberis
A Model of Casino Gambling

w14942 Gary D. Libecap
Dean Lueck

The Demarcation of Land and the Role of Coordinating Institutions

w14855 Patrick Bajari
Gregory Lewis

Procurement Contracting with Time Incentives: Theory and Evidence

w14838 Robert S. Goldfarb
Thomas C. Leonard
Sara Markowitz
Steven Suranovic

Can A Rational Choice Framework Make Sense of Anorexia Nervosa?

w14806 Edward L. Glaeser
Joshua D. Gottlieb

The Wealth of Cities: Agglomeration Economies and Spatial Equilibrium in the United States

w14764 Roland Bénabou
Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets

w14761 Vasiliki Skreta
Laura Veldkamp

Ratings Shopping and Asset Complexity: A Theory of Ratings Inflation

w14713 Lex Borghans
Bart H.H. Golsteyn
James J. Heckman
Huub Meijers

Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion

w14705 Thomas S. Dee
Stereotype Threat and the Student-Athlete

w14659 Sumit Agarwal
Paige M. Skiba
Jeremy Tobacman

Payday Loans and Credit Cards: New Liquidity and Credit Scoring Puzzles?


2008
w14622 B. Douglas Bernheim
Behavioral Welfare Economics

w14539 Rafael Di Tella
Robert MacCulloch

Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond "Basic Needs"

w14501 Ernst Fehr
Oliver D. Hart
Christian Zehnder

Contracts as Reference Points - Experimental Evidence

w14487 Alessandra Casella
Storable Votes and Agenda Order Control. Theory and Experiments

w14374 Edward L. Glaeser
Charles Redlick

Social Capital and Urban Growth

w14373 Edward L. Glaeser
Joshua D. Gottlieb

The Economics of Place-Making Policies

w14356 Steven D. Levitt
John A. List

Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future

w14353 Christopher F. Chabris
David Laibson
Carrie L. Morris
Jonathon P. Schuldt
Dmitry Taubinsky

Measuring intertemporal preferences using response times

w14337 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald
Bert Van Landeghem

Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility

w14285 Pol Antràs
Robert W. Staiger

Offshoring and the Role of Trade Agreements

w14159 James B. Rebitzer
Mari Rege
Christopher Shepard

Influence, Information Overload, and Information Technology in Health Care

w14107 Dan Bogart
Gary Richardson

Making Property Productive: Reorganizing Rights to Real and Equitable Estates in Britain, 1660 to 1830

w14067 Giovanni Maggi
Robert W. Staiger

On the Role and Design of Dispute Settlement Procedures in International Trade Agreements

w14004 Gary Richardson
Michael McBride

Religion, Longevity, and Cooperation: The Case of the Craft Guild.

w13976 John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

How are Preferences Revealed?

w13961 Armin Falk
David Huffman
W. Bentley MacLeod

Institutions and Contract Enforcement

w13960 Surajeet Chakravarty
W. Bentley MacLeod

Contracting in the Shadow of the Law

w13954 B. Douglas Bernheim
On the Potential of Neuroeconomics: A Critical (but Hopeful) Appraisal

w13836 Farley Grubb
Testing for the Economic Impact of the U.S. Constitution: Purchasing Power Parity across the Colonies versus across the States, 1748-1811

w13737 B. Douglas Bernheim
Antonio Rangel

Beyond Revealed Preference: Choice Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics


2007
w13713 Ernesto Reuben
Paola Sapienza
Luigi Zingales

Procrastination and Impatience

w13699 Young Han Lee
Ulrike Malmendier

The Bidder's Curse

w13656 James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

Mental Accounting in Portfolio Choice: Evidence from a Flypaper Effect

w13530 Alvin E. Roth
What Have We Learned From Market Design?

w13420 Stefano DellaVigna
Psychology and Economics: Evidence from the Field

w13294 Petra Moser
Why Don't Inventors Patent?

w13243 Robert T. Jensen
Nolan H. Miller

Giffen Behavior: Theory and Evidence

w13186 Radha Iyengar
Does the Certainty of Arrest Reduce Domestic Violence? Evidence from Mandatory and Recommended Arrest laws

w13159 Rafael Di Tella
John Haisken-De New
Robert MacCulloch

Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel

w13126 Markus Mobius
Adam Szeidl

Trust and Social Collateral

w13072 Glenn W. Harrison
John A. List

Naturally Occurring Markets and Exogenous Laboratory Experiments: A Case Study of the Winner's Curse

w12992 John A. List
Field Experiments: A Bridge Between Lab and Naturally-Occurring Data


2006
w12769 Michele Boldrin
David K. Levine

Growth and Intellectual Property

w12745 Henrik Horn
Giovanni Maggi
Robert W. Staiger

Trade Agreements as Endogenously Incomplete Contracts

w12709 Kelly Shue
Erzo F. P. Luttmer

Who Misvotes? The Effect of Differential Cognition Costs on Election Outcomes

w12508 Alexandre Mas
Enrico Moretti

Peers at Work

w12300 Sara Markowitz
John Tauras

Even For Teenagers, Money Does Not Grow on Trees: Teenage Substance Use and Budget Constraints

w12227 Susan M. Dynarski
Judith E. Scott-Clayton

The Cost of Complexity in Federal Student Aid: Lessons from Optimal Tax Theory and Behavioral Economics

w12202 Alexandre Mas
Pay, Reference Points, and Police Performance

w12169 Stefano DellaVigna
Ethan Kaplan

The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting

w12009 John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Savings Outcomes: Evidence from the United States

w11979 James Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte Madrian

Reducing the Complexity Costs of 401(k) Participation Through Quick Enrollment(TM)

w11910 Sendhil Mullainathan
Ebonya Washington

Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Voting


2005
w11781 Steven Shavell
Liability for Accidents

w11755 Xavier Gabaix
David Laibson

Shrouded Attributes, Consumer Myopia, and Information Suppression in Competitive Markets

w11744 Ryan M. Johnson
David H. Reiley
Juan Carlos Munoz

"The War for the Fare": How Driver Compensation Affects Bus System Performance

w11518 B. Douglas Bernheim
Antonio Rangel

Behavioral Public Economics: Welfare and Policy Analysis with Non-Standard Decision-Makers

w11505 Jean Helwege
Christo Pirinsky
René M. Stulz

Why Do Firms Become Widely Held? An Analysis of the ynamics of Corporate Ownership

w11211 Stefano DellaVigna
Joshua M. Pollet

Attention, Demographics, and the Stock Market

w11074 Gabriel D. Carroll
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte Madrian
Andrew Metrick

Optimal Defaults and Active Decisions


2004
w10976 Gary S. Becker
Kevin M. Murphy
Michael Grossman

The Economic Theory of Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs

w10518 Ricardo Caballero
Emmanuel Farhi
Mohamad L. Hammour

Speculative Growth: Hints from the US Economy

w10341 Steven Shavell
Minimum Asset Requirements and Compulsory Liability Insurance As Solutions to the Judgment-Proof Problem

w10313 Alberto Alesina
Eliana La Ferrara

Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance

w10278 C. Lanier Benkard
Patrick Bajari

Demand Estimation with Heterogeneous Consumers and Unobserved Product Characteristics: A Hedonic Approach


2003
w10094 Steven Shavell
On the Writing and the Interpretation of Contracts

w9700 Steven Shavell
Economic Analysis of Welfare Economics, Morality and the Law

w9699 Steven Shavell
Economic Analysis of the General Structure of the Law

w9698 Steven Shavell
Economic Analysis of Public Law Enforcement and Criminal Law

w9697 Steven Shavell
Economic Analysis of Litigation and the Legal Process

w9696 Steven Shavell
Economic Analysis of Contract Law

w9694 Steven Shavell
Economic Analysis of Accident Law

w9483 Steven Shavell
Economic Analysis of Accident Law

w9452 Amil Petrin
Kenneth Train

Omitted Product Attributes in Discrete Choice Models


2002
w9381 Ricardo J. Caballero
Mohamad L. Hammour

Speculative Growth

w9329 B. Douglas Bernheim
Antonio Rangel

Addiction and Cue-Conditioned Cognitive Processes


2001
w8624 Alvin J. Silk
Lisa R. Klein
Ernst R. Berndt

Intermedia Substitutability and Market Demand by National Advertisers


2000
w7948 Sendhil Mullainathan
Richard H. Thaler

Behavioral Economics

w7878 James J. Choi
David Laibson
Andrew Metrick

Does the Internet Increase Trading? Evidence from Investor Behavior in 401(k) Plans

w7728 Edward L. Glaeser
David Laibson
Bruce Sacerdote

The Economic Approach to Social Capital

w7694 Orazio Attanasio
Pinelopi K. Goldberg
Ekaterini Kyriazidou

Credit Constraints in the Market for Consumer Durables: Evidence from Micro Data on Car Loans


1999
t0247 Brigitte C. Madrian
Lars John Lefgren

A Note on Longitudinally Matching Current Population Survey (CPS) Respondents

w7158 Hao Li
Sherwin Rosen
Wing Suen

Conflicts and Common Interests in Committees


1996
w5444 Edward P. Lazear
Incentives in Basic Research


1995
w5026 Edward L. Glaeser
Bruce Sacerdote
Jose A. Scheinkman

Crime and Social Interactions


1992
w3750 Don Fullerton
Diane Lim Rogers

Lifetime vs. Annual Perspectives on Tax Incidence


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