Kai Steverson,Adam Brandenburger,Paul Glimcher
Kai Steverson
Recent advances in neuroscience suggest that a utility-like calculation is involved in how the brain makes choices, and that this calculation may use a computation known as divisive normalization. While this tells us how the brain makes cho...
Does Winning an Experimental Auction Change People's Behavior? An Application to E-cigarettes [0.03%]
实验拍卖中标对行为的影响——以电子烟为例
Richard J O&#x;Connor,Matthew C Rousu,Jay R Corrigan et al.
Richard J O&#x;Connor et al.
Experimental auctions allow researchers to estimate demand for products like e-cigarettes in a non-hypothetical environment where participants face real and immediate consequences for their bids. However, because auction winners actually pu...
Bradford L Barham,Jean-Paul Chavas,Dylan Fitz et al.
Bradford L Barham et al.
We construct a model of technology adoption with agents differing on two dimensions: their cognitive ability and their receptiveness to advice. While cognitive ability unambiguously speeds adoption, receptiveness to advice may speed adoptio...
How should economists model climate? Tipping points and nonlinear dynamics of carbon dioxide concentrations [0.03%]
经济学家应如何进行气候建模？二氧化碳浓度的 tipping point 与非线性动态过程
Jean-Paul Chavas,Corbett Grainger,Nicholas Hudson
Jean-Paul Chavas
Economists modeling climate policy face an array of choices when modeling climate change, including the role of uncertainty/ambiguity, irreversibility, and tipping points. After filtering out estimated cycles due to orbital climate forcing,...
Heterogeneity and Cooperation: The Role of Capability and Valuation on Public Goods Provision [0.03%]
异质性与合作：公共物品供给中的能力与估价作用分析
Felix Kolle
Felix Kolle
We experimentally investigate the effects of two different sources of heterogeneity - capability and valuation - on the provision public goods when punishment is possible or not. We find that compared to homogeneous groups, asymmetric valua...
James J Choi,Emily Haisley,Jennifer Kurkoski et al.
James J Choi et al.
We present evidence from randomized field experiments that 401(k) savings choices are significantly affected by one- to two-sentence anchoring, goal-setting, or savings threshold cues embedded in emails sent to employees about their 401(k) ...
Life satisfaction and sexual minorities: Evidence from Australia and the United Kingdom [0.03%]
生命 Satisfaction 与性少数派：来自澳大利亚和英国的证据
Nattavudh Powdthavee,Mark Wooden
Nattavudh Powdthavee
Very little is known about how the differential treatment of sexual minorities could influence subjective reports of overall well-being. This paper seeks to fill this gap. Data from two large surveys that provide nationally representative s...
Internal conflict, market uniformity, and transparency in price competition between teams [0.03%]
内斗、市场一致性及团队间价格竞争的透明性
Michael Kurschilgen,Alexander Morell,Ori Weisel
Michael Kurschilgen
The way profits are divided within successful teams imposes different degrees of internal conflict. We experimentally examine how the level of internal conflict, and whether such conflict is transparent to other teams, affects teams' abilit...
Stephanie von Hinke,George Leckie
Stephanie von Hinke
Whether and how changes in economic circumstances or household income affect individuals' diet and nutritional intakes is of substantial interest for policy purposes. This paper exploits a period of substantial income volatility in Russia t...
Can having internal locus of control insure against negative shocks? Psychological evidence from panel data [0.03%]
内部控制感能抵御负向冲击吗？来自面板数据的证据
Hielke Buddelmeyer,Nattavudh Powdthavee
Hielke Buddelmeyer
We investigate whether the intensity of emotional pain following a negative shock is different across the distribution of a person's locus of control - the extent to which individuals believe that their actions can influence future outcomes...