How to run surveys: A guide to creating your own identifying variation and revealing the invisible

S Stantcheva - Annual Review of Economics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Surveys are an essential approach for eliciting otherwise invisible factors such as
perceptions, knowledge and beliefs, attitudes, and reasoning. These factors are critical …

Understanding tax policy: How do people reason?

S Stantcheva - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
I study how people understand, reason, and learn about two major tax policies: income
taxation and estate taxation. Using large-scale social economics surveys issued to …

Get real! Individuals prefer more sustainable investments

R Bauer, T Ruof, P Smeets - The Review of Financial Studies, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have created societal
and political pressure for pension funds to address sustainable investing. We run two field …

Measuring and bounding experimenter demand

J De Quidt, J Haushofer, C Roth - American Economic Review, 2018 - aeaweb.org
We propose a technique for assessing robustness to demand effects of findings from
experiments and surveys. The core idea is that by deliberately inducing demand in a …

[HTML][HTML] Prosociality predicts health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic

P Campos-Mercade, AN Meier, FH Schneider… - Journal of public …, 2021 - Elsevier
Socially responsible behavior is crucial for slowing the spread of infectious diseases.
However, economic and epidemiological models of disease transmission abstract from …

When and why is economic inequality seen as fair

KS Trump - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Inequality is seen as fair when it is considered consistent with broadly shared
normative rules.•Disagreements arise from ambiguities in whether these normative rules …

Social positions and fairness views on inequality

KB Hvidberg, CT Kreiner… - Review of Economic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We link survey data on Danish people's perceived income positions and fairness views on
inequality within various reference groups to administrative records on their reference …

Parenting with style: Altruism and paternalism in intergenerational preference transmission

M Doepke, F Zilibotti - Econometrica, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We develop a theory of parent‐child relations that rationalizes the choice between
alternative parenting styles (as set out in Baumrind, 1967). Parents maximize an objective …

The future of human behaviour research

JM Box-Steffensmeier, J Burgess, M Corbetta… - Nature Human …, 2022 - nature.com
Human behaviour is complex and multifaceted, and is studied by a broad range of
disciplines across the social and natural sciences. To mark our 5th anniversary, we asked …

How do expectations about the macroeconomy affect personal expectations and behavior?

C Roth, J Wohlfart - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
Using a representative online panel from the United States, we examine how individuals'
macroeconomic expectations causally affect their personal economic prospects and their …