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ESSAYS IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
Chapter 1: In many settings, it is natural to think of limited consideration exhibiting spillovers: attention paid to a particular alternative may “spill over” to another alternative based on shared characteristics, complementarities, features of the choice environment, etc. However, it is not …
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Essays in Behavioral Economics
In recent decades, behavioral and experimental economics have sig-nificantly influenced the broader discipline of economics. These sub-fields have revitalized interest in incorporating psychological dimen-sions into models of economic behavior. Beyond this conceptual shift, behavioral and …
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Essays in behavioral economics
… utilitarian outcomes usually assumed relevant in economics. Other than this, agents are timeconsistent expected utility maximizers, are constrained in their updating by Bayes' rule, and can manipulate their beliefs only by controlling the flow of information that they receive. The motive to …
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Behavioral Economics of Persecutory Delusions
Persecutory delusions cause significant distress in the individuals who experience them, yet as a field we are still working to understand their etiology. Persecutory delusions and suspiciousness have some overlap with mistrust, and thus this dissertation focuses on the use of trust games to …
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Three Essays on Behavioral Economics
… within country on the joint association between behavioral heterogeneity and multi-dimensional subjective well-being in a common institutional setting. Chapter 3 considers that a short-term workplace intervention can induce meaningful improvements in retirement savings behavior. To address this …
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Three Essays in Behavioral Economics
… realm of interdisciplinary research, bridging economics and psychology, to investigate several critical areas that affect peoples’ wellbeing. It explores gender discrimination within peer review processes, seeks advancements in the measurement of subjective well-being, and analyzes the …
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Essays in Behavioral Economics and Neuroeconomics
… is composed of three unrelated chapters on Behavioral Economics and Neuroeconomics, all of which are on different topics. Chapter 1: Willingness to Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19 and Reasons for Hesitancy Among U.S Residents. Chapter 2: Testosterone Administration Induces A Red Shift in …
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Essays in Public and Behavioral Economics
This thesis examines how psychological forces and non-standard preferences affect poverty and the design of social welfare programs for low-income households. The first chapter, "Eviction as Bargaining Failure: Hostility and Misperceptions in the Rental Housing Market" (co-authored with Evan …
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Essays in Behavioral Economics: Lying and Deception
<p>The U.S. economy loses hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenues, wages, and investment dollars, as well as hundreds of thousands of jobs each year due to dishonest behavior (Mazar and Ariely, 2006; Griffin et al., 2022). Thus, understanding dishonest behavior and finding mechanism to …
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Essays on Behavioral Economics and Sophisticated Procrastination
Procrastination is a widespread yet complex behavior that resists simple explanation. This dissertation integrates theoretical modeling with experimental evidence to examine procrastination through the lens of sophisticated decision-making. It reframes procrastination not merely as a deviation from …
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Essays on contract theory and behavioral economics
… is a collection of essays on contract theory and behavioral economics. Chapter 1 proposes a model of choice under risk based on imperfect memory and self-deception. The model assumes that people have preferences over their own attributes and can, to some extent, manipulate their memories. It leads …
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Three essays in labor, environmental, and behavioral economics
… papers in the areas of labor, environmental, and behavioral economics. The first paper examines the impact that trade liberalization has had on wage inequality in Mexico since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was enacted in the mid 1990s. The second and third papers examine the …
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Healthy Behavior: Essays in Health and Behavioral Economics
These essays examine beliefs and decision-making in health settings, emphasizing the role of attention, information, and technology in shaping behavior. The first essay studies human error in chest x-ray interpretation, a common and consequential medical task. It casts radiologists as facing a …
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Essays on Behavioral Economics and the Utility of Gambling
… Methods to Analyze Treatment Significance on Behavioral Finance Experiments. Using R.A. Fisher's (1935) randomization methods for statistical inference, this paper examines how stock market crashes affect future return beliefs using Safford et al. (2018) experimental data. Safford et al. …
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Essays in Behavioral Economics: Applying Prospect theory to Auctions
… thereby indicates that transferring qualitative behavioral findings from induced-value laboratory experiments to the field may be problematic if subjects are loss averse and anticipate such losses at the time of bidding. Finally, I explore the effect of resale or procurement opportunities, to …
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Essays on the Behavioral Economics of Mental Health and Belief Formation
These three essays use the lens of behavioral economics to study topics in mental health, decision-making, and belief formation. They leverage randomized experiments to evaluate the impact of three interventions, and new ``lab-in-the-field'' incentivized surveys and games to measure outcomes. The …
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Three Essays on Behavioral Economics : Bribery Solicitation, Pity System and Information Avoidance
<p>This paper include three parts analyzing the effect of bribery solicitation, the effect of pity System and the effect of meat consumption on information avoidance. The first chapter is the analysis of the effect of bribery solicitation on behavior change. Bribe solicitation is a critical but …
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Three essays in experimental and behavioral economics of technology adoption in India
… presents three studies that examine the behavioral phenomena which affect technology adoption in the fields of health and agriculture in developing countries. In the first paper based on the joint work with Mary Arends-Kuenning and Hemant Pullabhotla, I examine whether women's …
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Geographical and behavioral economics of political risk for foreign direct investment location
… risk underlying theories with geographical and behavioral economic theories, in order to propose a sub-national political-risk-assessment approach that could show the safer regions within riskier countries. It is based on the analysis of the Colombian Metallurgical Coke and Power Plant Project …
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