Ori Heffetz


[Hebrew] מאמרים בעברית

CV

Working Papers:

Benjamin, Daniel J., Kristen B. Cooper, Ori Heffetz, and Miles S. Kimball. September 2023.
From Happiness Data to Economic Conclusions. [SSRN version] [NBER WP w31727]

Benjamin, Daniel J., Kristen B. Cooper, Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball, and Jiannan Zhou. September 2023.
Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being. [SSRN version] [NBER WP w31728]

Gonczarowski, Yannai, Ori Heffetz, and Clayton Thomas. September 2022.
Strategyproofness-Exposing Mechanism Descriptions. [arXiv version] [NBER WP w31506] [Online Experimental Materials]

Dreyfuss, Bnaya, Ofer Glicksohn, Ori Heffetz, and Assaf Romm. November 2022.
Deferred Acceptance with News Utility. [SSRN version] [NBER WP w30635]

Heffetz, Ori, Ted O’Donoghue, and Henry S. Schneider. January 2023.
A Note on the Identification of Present Bias and Forgetting from Task-Completion Data. [pdf]

Dekel, Inbal, Rachel Cummings, Ori Heffetz, and Katrina Ligett. June, 2022.
The Privacy Elasticity of Behavior: Conceptualization and Application. [SSRN version] [NBER WP w30215] [Web Appendix]

Heffetz, Ori and Guy Ishai. October, 2021.
Which Beliefs? Behavior-Predictive Beliefs are Inconsistent with Information-Based Beliefs: Evidence from COVID-19. [SSRN version] [NBER WP w29452] [Web Appendix] [Paper & Web Appendix]

Heffetz, Ori and Daniel B. Reeves. December, 2020.
Measuring Unemployment in Crisis: Effects of COVID-19 on Potential Biases in the CPS. [SSRN version] [NBER WP w28310]

Kshirsagar, Alap, Bnaya Dreyfuss, Guy Ishai, Ori Heffetz, and Guy Hoffman. September, 2023.
Additive vs. Subtractive Earning in Shared Human-Robot Work Environments.

Heffetz, Ori. September, 2018.
Expenditure Visibility and Consumer Behavior: New Evidence. [SSRN version] [NBER WP w25161]
Media: A 3-minute live TV interview on conspicuous Halloween spending, Bloomberg Market “The Close” with Scarlet Fu (October 25, 2019).

Published/Forthcoming Papers:

Benjamin, Daniel J., Jakina Debnam Guzman, Marc Fleurbaey, Ori Heffetz, and Miles S. Kimball. 2023.
What Do Happiness Data Mean? Theory and Survey Evidence.
Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming. [SSRN version] [NBER WP w28438] [Web Appendix] [Individual Responses Appendix]

Heffetz, Ori and Matthew Rabin. 2023.
Estimating Perceptions of the Relative COVID Risk of Different Social-Distancing Behaviors from Respondents’ Pairwise Assessments.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, forthcoming. [SSRN version] [NBER WP w30493]

Heffetz, Ori. 2022.
What will it take to get to acceptable privacy-accuracy combinations?
Harvard Data Science Review, Special Issue 2. [Journal version]

Feldman, Naomi E. and Ori Heffetz. 2022.
A Grant to Every Citizen: Survey Evidence of the Impact of a Direct Government Payment in Israel.
National Tax Journal, 75(2): 229-263. [Journal version] [SSRN version] [NBER WP w28312]

Heffetz, Ori, Ted O’Donoghue, and Henry S. Schneider. 2022.
Reminders Work, But for Whom? Evidence from New York City Parking-Ticket Recipients.
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 14(4): 343-370. [pdf] [Journal version] [SSRN version] [NBER WP w23012] [Web Appendix]

Dreyfuss, Bnaya, Ori Heffetz, and Matthew Rabin. 2022.
Expectations-Based Loss Aversion May Help Explain Seemingly Dominated Choices in Strategy-Proof Mechanisms.
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 14(4): 515–555. [Journal version] [SSRN version] [NBER WP w26394]
Video: a 48-minute presentation, Simons Institute Workshop on Information Design and Data Science, Berkeley, October 2, 2019. [Watch]

Heffetz, Ori. 2021.
Are Reference Points Merely Lagged Beliefs Over Probabilities?
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 181: 252-269. [SSRN version] [NBER WP w24721] [Web Appendix]

Benjamin, Daniel J., Kristen B. Cooper, Ori Heffetz, and Miles S. Kimball. 2019.
Self-reported wellbeing indicators are a valuable complement to traditional economic indicators but aren’t yet ready to compete with them.
Behavioural Public Policy 4(2): 198–209. [Journal version] [SSRN version]

Benjamin, Daniel J., Kristen B. Cooper, Ori Heffetz, and Miles S. Kimball. 2019.
A Well-Being Snapshot in a Changing World.
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 109: 344–349. [Journal version] [pdf + appendix]

Kshirsagar, Alap, Bnaya Dreyfuss, Guy Ishai, Ori Heffetz, and Guy Hoffman. 2019.
Monetary-Incentive Competition between Humans and Robots: Experimental Results.
Proc. of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’19), IEEE, 95-103. [SSRN version] [Supplemental Materials]

Heffetz, Ori and Daniel B. Reeves. 2019.
Difficulty to Reach Respondents and Nonresponse Bias: Evidence from Large Government Surveys.
Review of Economics and Statistics, 101(1): 176–191. [Journal version] [SSRN version] [NBER WP w22333] [Web Appendix]

Benjamin, Daniel J., Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball, and Derek Lougee. 2017.
The Relationship Between the Normalized Gradient Addition Mechanism and Quadratic Voting.
Public Choice, 172(1): 233–263. [Journal version]

Benjamin, Daniel J., Kristen B. Cooper, Ori Heffetz, and Miles S. Kimball. 2017.
Challenges in Constructing a Survey-Based Well-Being Index.
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 107(5): 81-85. [Journal version] [SSRN version] [NBER WP w23111]

Benjamin, Daniel J., Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball, and Alex Rees-Jones. 2014.
Can Marginal Rates of Substitution Be Inferred From Happiness Data? Evidence from Residency Choices.
American Economic Review, 104(11): 3498–3528. [Journal version] [SSRN version] [Web Appendix] [Survey Appendix]

Heffetz, Ori, and John A. List. 2014. Is the Endowment Effect an Expectations Effect?
Journal of the European Economic Association, 12(5): 1396-1422. [SSRN version] [Web Appendix]
An older version circulated as Is the Endowment Effect a Reference Effect?. [NBER WP w16715]

Benjamin, Daniel J., Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball, and Nichole Szembrot. 2014.
Beyond Happiness and Satisfaction: Toward Well-Being Indices Based on Stated Preference.
American Economic Review, 104(9): 2698–2735. [Journal version] [SSRN version] [Web Appendix]
Media: FT Alphaville, my op/ed for Cornell Enterprise, and my piece in Hebrew for Alaxon
Audio: Simon Tulett interviews Matthew Adler, Ori Heffetz, and Justin Wolfers (28 minutes; October, 2012) [Play] [mp3]

Heffetz, Ori and Katrina Ligett. 2014. Privacy and Data-Based Research.
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 28(2): 75-98. [Journal version]
An earlier version containing slightly more technical detail and more references: [SSRN version] [NBER WP w19433]

Heffetz, Ori, and Matthew Rabin. 2013.
Conclusions Regarding Cross-Group Differences in Happiness Depend on Difficulty of Reaching Respondents.
American Economic Review, 103(7): 3001-3021. [Journal version] [SSRN version]
Editors’ Choice: Science

Benjamin, Daniel J., Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball, and Nichole Szembrot. 2013.
Aggregating Local Preferences to Guide Marginal Policy Adjustments.
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 103(3): 605-610. [Journal version] [SSRN version]

Benjamin, Daniel J., Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball, and Alex Rees-Jones. 2012.
What Do You Think Would Make You Happier? What Do You Think You Would Choose?
American Economic Review, 102(5): 2083–2110. [Journal version] [SSRN version]
An older version circulated as Do People Seek to Maximize Happiness? Evidence from New Surveys. [Web Appendix] [NBER WP w16489 at SSRN]
Media: The Economist

Heffetz, Ori. 2012. Who Sees What? Demographics and the Visibility of Consumer Expenditures.
Journal of Economic Psychology, 33(4): 801–818. [SSRN version]

Heffetz, Ori. 2011. A Test of Conspicuous Consumption: Visibility and Income Elasticities.
Review of Economics and Statistics, 93(4): 1101–1117 (Lead article). [Journal version] [SSRN version]
An older version circulated as Conspicuous Consumption and Expenditure Visibility: Measurement and Application.
Media: New York Times, Haaretz

Heffetz, Ori, and Robert H. Frank. 2011. Preferences for Status: Evidence and Economic Implications.
In Jess Benhabib, Matthew O. Jackson and Alberto Bisin editors: Handbook of Social Economics, Vol. 1A, The Netherlands: North-Holland, pp. 69–91. [SSRN version]

Heffetz, Ori, and Moses Shayo. 2009. How Large Are Non-Budget-Constraint Effects of Prices on Demand?
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1(4): 170–199. [Journal version] [SSRN version]
Media: New York Times, Psychology Today, Inc., TheMarker, etc.

Book Review:

Heffetz, Ori. 2014. Review of Beyond GDP by Marc Fleurbaey and Didier Blanchet.
Economica, , 81: 788–789. [pdf]

Textbook:

Frank, Robert H., Ben S. Bernanke, Kate Antonovics, and Ori Heffetz. 2016.
Principles of Economics/Microeconomics/Macroeconomics (8/e, 2021, McGraw-Hill) [McGraw-Hill], and
Principles of Economics/Microeconomics/Macroeconomics: A Streamlined Approach (4/e, 2021, McGraw-Hill). [McGraw-Hill] [Amazon]

Older Working Paper:

Cobb-Douglas Utility With Nonlinear Engel Curves in a Conspicuous Consumption Model (August, 2007). [SSRN version]

Two of the papers above—A Test of Conspicuous Consumption: Visibility and Income Elasticities and Cobb-Douglas Utility With Nonlinear Engel Curves in a Conspicuous Consumption Model—are based on the first chapter of my Ph.D. dissertation, Conspicuous Consumption and the Visibility of Consumer Expenditures (Princeton University, 2004). The first paper updates the empirical analysis, the second details the model. The original chapter—with more discussions, but less (and now redundant) empirics—is available here.



NBER Conference on the Measurement and Tracking of Subjective Well-Being for Aging Research we organized in Cambridge, MA, July 2018.

The First Meaning of Consumption Conference we organized at Cornell, August 2008.



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