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Consumer choices are increasingly mediated by algorithms, which use data on those past choices to infer consumer preferences and then curate future choice sets. Behavioral economics suggests one reason these algorithms so often fail: choices can systematically deviate from preferences. For...
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People's fairness preferences are an important constraint for what constitutes an acceptable economic transaction, yet … play an important role in shaping perceptions of fairness. Buyers used to high market prices, for example, are more likely …-dependent fairness preferences--either based on endogenous fairness reference points or based on shifts in salience--that can account for …
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We use novel and unique survey data from Italy to shed light on key questions regarding the measurement of social capital and the use of social capital indicators for empirical work. Our data cover a sample of over 600,000 respondents interviewed between 2000 and 2015. We identify four distinct...
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This article explores subjects in optimal income taxation characterized by recent research interest, practical importance in light of concerns about inequality, potential for misunderstanding, and prospects for advancement. Throughout, the analysis highlights paths for further investigation....
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To what degree do economists disagree about key economic questions? To provide evidence, we make use of the responses … to a series of questions posed to a distinguished panel of economists put together by the Chicago School of Business …
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' and authors' gender. With substantial research showing gender differences in fairness, the results suggest that an ethos …
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reputation? Using evidence for academic economists, we find that, conditional on its impact, the quantity of output has no or …
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monetary impact of visiting economists. Less tangible additional impacts in terms of research style also clearly result …
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tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of Hirsch's index that emphasize smaller numbers of highly-cited papers … perform better than Hirsch's original index and have substantial power to explain which economists are tenured at which …
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The previously documented trend toward more co- and multi-authored research in economics is partly (perhaps 20 percent) due to different research styles of scholars in different birth cohorts (of different ages). Most of the trend reflects profession-wide changes in research style. Older...
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