NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Working Group on Behavioral Economics


2012
w18093 Marco Castillo
Ragan Petrie
Máximo Torero
Lise Vesterlund

Gender Differences in Bargaining Outcomes: A Field Experiment on Discrimination

w18065 Xavier Giné
Jessica Goldberg
Dan Silverman
Dean Yang

Revising Commitments: Field Evidence on the Adjustment of Prior Choices

w18064 Rodney J. Andrews
Trevon D. Logan
Michael J. Sinkey

Identifying Confirmatory Bias in the Field: Evidence from a Poll of Experts

w18063 Robert Novy-Marx
Pseudo-Predictability in Conditional Asset Pricing Tests: Explaining Anomaly Performance with Politics, the Weather, Global Warming, Sunspots, and the Stars

w18024 Ulrike Malmendier
Enrico Moretti
Florian S. Peters

Winning by Losing: Evidence on the Long-Run Effects of Mergers

w17995 Katherine L. Milkman
John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

Following Through on Good Intentions: The Power of Planning Prompts

w17988 Andrew Caplin
Daniel J. Martin

Defaults and Attention: The Drop Out Effect

w17957 Omar Al-Ubaydli
John A. List

On the Generalizability of Experimental Results in Economics

w17954 Dean Karlan
John A. List

How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People’s Donations to Fund Public Goods?

w17947 Pedro Bordalo
Nicola Gennaioli
Andrei Shleifer

Salience and Consumer Choice

w17929 Sendhil Mullainathan
Markus Noeth
Antoinette Schoar

The Market for Financial Advice: An Audit Study

w17927 Gopi Shah Goda
Colleen Flaherty Manchester
Aaron Sojourner

What Will My Account Really Be Worth? An Experiment on Exponential Growth Bias and Retirement Saving

w17911 Olivia S. Mitchell
Stephen Utkus

Target-Date Funds in 401(k) Retirement Plans

w17904 Nikolai Roussanov
Pavel G. Savor

Status, Marriage, and Managers' Attitudes To Risk

w17895 Bruce Ian Carlin
Florian Ederer

Search Fatigue

w17857 Robin McKnight
Jonathan Reuter
Eric Zitzewitz

Insurance as Delegated Purchasing: Theory and Evidence from Health Care

w17855 Uri Gneezy
John List
Michael K. Price

Toward an Understanding of Why People Discriminate: Evidence from a Series of Natural Field Experiments

w17843 James J. Choi
Emily Haisley
Jennifer Kurkoski
Cade Massey

Small Cues Change Savings Choices

w17783 Xavier Gabaix
Boundedly Rational Dynamic Programming: Some Preliminary Results

w17726 Raymond Fisman
Nikolaj A. Harmon
Emir Kamenica
Inger Munk

Labor Supply of Politicians


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

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

w17579 Roland Benabou
Jean Tirole

Laws and Norms

w17556 Toshi H. Arimura
Shanjun Li
Richard G. Newell
Karen Palmer

Cost-Effectiveness of Electricity Energy Efficiency Programs

w17477 Lars Lefgren
Brennan Platt
Joseph Price

Sticking with What (Barely) Worked

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

w17410 Jeffrey R. Kling
Sendhil Mullainathan
Eldar Shafir
Lee Vermeulen
Marian Wrobel

Comparison Friction: Experimental Evidence from Medicare Drug Plans

w17385 Liran Einav
Theresa Kuchler
Jonathan D. Levin
Neel Sundaresan

Learning from Seller Experiments in Online Markets

w17378 James J. Heckman
Integrating Personality Psychology into Economics

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

The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions

w17342 James Andreoni
Charles Sprenger

Uncertainty Equivalents: Testing the Limits of the Independence Axiom

w17315 Gene Amromin
Jennifer Huang
Clemens Sialm
Edward Zhong

Complex Mortgages

w17298 Christopher Avery
Judith A. Chevalier
Richard J. Zeckhauser

The "CAPS" Prediction System and Stock Market Returns

w17293 Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
Ragnar Torvik

Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances?

w17285 Xiaoji Lin
Lu Zhang

Covariances versus Characteristics in General Equilibrium

w17255 Pascaline Dupas
Jonathan Robinson

Why Don't the Poor Save More? Evidence from Health Savings Experiments

w17244 Anneke Exterkate
Robin L. Lumsdaine

How Survey Design Affects Inference Regarding Health Perceptions and Outcomes

w17197 Robin Greenwood
Samuel G. Hanson

Issuer Quality and the Credit Cycle

w17189 Paul J. Ferraro
Michael K. Price

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

w17180 John F. Helliwell
Shun Wang

Weekends and Subjective Well-Being

w17163 Andrew Caplin
Daniel Martin

A Testable Theory of Imperfect Perception

w17110 Tabea Bucher-Koenen
Annamaria Lusardi

Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in Germany

w17109 Rob J. Alessie
Maarten van Rooij
Annamaria Lusardi

Financial Literacy, Retirement Preparation and Pension Expectations in the Netherlands

w17108 Annamaria Lusardi
Olivia S. Mitchell

Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in the United States

w17107 Annamaria Lusardi
Olivia S. Mitchell

Financial Literacy around the World: An Overview

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

w17047 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna
Ulrike Malmendier

The Role of Theory in Field Experiments

w17041 Erik Hurst
Benjamin Wild Pugsley

What Do Small Businesses Do?

w17033 James Andreoni
Laura K. Gee

Gun For Hire: Does Delegated Enforcement Crowd out Peer Punishment in Giving to Public Goods?

w17032 James Andreoni
Laura K. Gee

The Hired Gun Mechanism

w17030 Nicola Lacetera
Devin G. Pope
Justin R. Sydnor

Heuristic Thinking and Limited Attention in the Car Market

w17028 Victor Stango
Jonathan Zinman

Limited and Varying Consumer Attention: Evidence from Shocks to the Salience of Bank Overdraft Fees

w17027 Tarek A. Hassan
Thomas M. Mertens

The Social Cost of Near-Rational Investment

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

w16954 Geoffrey Heal
Howard Kunreuther

Tipping Climate Negotiations

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

Fighting Procrastination in the Workplace: An Experiment

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

w16898 Robert F. Stambaugh
Jianfeng Yu
Yu Yuan

The Short of It: Investor Sentiment and Anomalies

w16891 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle

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

w16868 John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

Can Psychological Aggregation Manipulations Affect Portfolio Risk-Taking? Evidence from a Framed Field Experiment

w16838 Daniel Treisman
The Geography of Fear

w16829 John F. Helliwell
Haifang Huang

New Measures of the Costs of Unemployment: Evidence from the Subjective Well-Being of 2.3 Million Americans

w16818 Aaron Edlin
Joseph Farrell

Freedom to Trade and the Competitive Process

w16798 Janet Currie
Inequality at Birth: Some Causes and Consequences

w16791 Syngjoo Choi
Shachar Kariv
Wieland Müller
Dan Silverman

Who Is (More) Rational?

w16787 Santiago Carbo-Valverde
Edward J. Kane
Francisco Rodriguez-Fernandez

Safety-Net Benefits Conferred on Difficult-to-Fail-and-Unwind Banks in the US and EU Before and During the Great Recession

w16784 Patrick Bayer
Christopher Geissler
James W. Roberts

Speculators and Middlemen: The Role of Flippers in the Housing Market

w16777 Nicolae Gârleanu
Lasse Heje Pedersen

Margin-Based Asset Pricing and Deviations from the Law of One Price

w16747 Laura Xiaolei Liu
Lu Zhang

A Model of Momentum

w16740 Justine S. Hastings
Olivia S. Mitchell

How Financial Literacy and Impatience Shape Retirement Wealth and Investment Behaviors

w16731 Harold Pollack
Peter Reuter
Eric L. Sevigny

If Drug Treatment Works So Well, Why Are So Many Drug Users in Prison?

w16728 John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

Behavioral Economics Perspectives on Public Sector Pension Plans

w16715 Ori Heffetz
John A. List

Is the Endowment Effect a Reference Effect?

w16712 Harrison Hong
Motohiro Yogo

What Does Futures Market Interest Tell Us about the Macroeconomy and Asset Prices?

w16687 Philip Babcock
Kelly Bedard
Gary Charness
John Hartman
Heather Royer

Letting Down the Team? Evidence of Social Effects of Team Incentives

w16684 Jonathan A. Parker
Nicholas S. Souleles
David S. Johnson
Robert McClelland

Consumer Spending and the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008


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