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Do Individuals Make Sensible Health Insurance Decisions? Evidence from a Menu with Dominated Options

Bhargava, Saurabh - 2015

The recent expansion of health-plan choice has been touted as increasing competition and enabling people to choose plans that fit their needs. This study provides new evidence challenging these proposed benefits of expanded health-insurance choice. We examine health-insurance decisions of...

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When Should Governments Subsidize Health? The Case of Mass Deworming

Ahuja, Amrita - 2015

We discuss how evidence and theory can be combined to provide insight on the appropriate subsidy level for health products, focusing on the specific case of deworming. Although intestinal worm infections can be treated using safe, low-cost drugs, some have challenged the view that mass...

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Do Natural Disasters Stimulate Individual Saving? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in a Highly Developed Country

Berlemann, Michael - 2015

of a natural experiment created by the European Flood of August 2002. Using micro data from the German Socio …

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How Transparency Kills Information Aggregation : Theory and Experiment

Fehrler, Sebastian - 2015

's key predictions in a laboratory experiment. The model's predictions are largely borne out – transparency negatively …

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Legislative Bargaining with Heterogeneous Disagreement Values : Theory and Experiments

Miller, Luis - 2015

We study a legislative bargaining game in which failure to agree in a given round may result in a breakdown of negotiations. In that case, each player receives an exogenous ‘disagreement value'. We characterize the set of stationary subgame perfect equilibria under all q-majority rules. Under...

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Experimental Evidence on Valuation with Multiple Priors

Qiu, Jianying - 2015

Popular models for decision making under ambiguity assume that people use not one but multiple priors. This paper is a first attempt to experimentally elicit the min and the max of multiple priors directly. In an ambiguous scenario we measure a participant's single prior, her min and max of...

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An Experiment on Social Mislearning

Eyster, Erik - 2015

We investigate experimentally whether social learners appreciate the redundancy of information conveyed by the behavior of those they observe. Each experimental participant observes a private signal and enters an estimate of the sum of all earlier-moving participants' signals plus her own. In a...

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Experimental Evidence on the Long-Term Impacts of a Youth Training Program

Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2015

This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial on the long-term impacts of a youth training program. The empirical analysis estimates labor market impacts six years after the training – including long-term labor market trajectories of young people – and, to the best of our...

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Trial and Error? Reelection Concerns and Policy Experimentation During the U.S. Welfare Reform

Bernecker, Andreas - 2015

investigate how reputation concerns among governors influence the decision to experiment with welfare policies. In line with a … to experiment with welfare policies than governors with low reputation. Yet, governors with high reputation who are less … concerned about reelection actually experiment more than governors striving for reelection. Overall, our findings imply that …

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Recreational Cannabis Reduces Rapes and Thefts : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

Dragone, Davide - 2016

An argument against the legalization of the cannabis market is that such a policy would increase crime. Exploiting the recent staggered legalization enacted by the states of Washington (end of 2012) and Oregon (end of 2014) we show, combining difference-in-differences and spatial regression...

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