Errors in probabilistic reasoning and judgment biases

DJ Benjamin - Handbook of Behavioral Economics: Applications and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Errors in probabilistic reasoning have been the focus of much psychology research and are
among the original topics of modern behavioral economics. This chapter reviews theory and …

Microeconometrics with partial identification

F Molinari - Handbook of econometrics, 2020 - Elsevier
This chapter reviews the microeconometrics literature on partial identification, focusing on
the developments of the last thirty years. The topics presented illustrate that the available …

The social cost of carbon revisited

RS Pindyck - Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2019 - Elsevier
An estimate of the social cost of carbon (SCC) is crucial to climate policy. But how should we
estimate the SCC? A common approach uses an integrated assessment model (IAM) to …

Understanding migration aversion using elicited counterfactual choice probabilities

G Koşar, T Ransom, W Van der Klaauw - Journal of Econometrics, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates how migration and location choice decisions depend on a large set
of location characteristics, with particular focus on measuring the importance and nature of …

From happiness data to economic conclusions

DJ Benjamin, K Cooper, O Heffetz… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Happiness data—survey respondents' self-reported well-being (SWB)—have become
increasingly common in economics research, with recent calls to use them in policymaking …

Seate: Subjective ex ante treatment effect of health on retirement

P Giustinelli, MD Shapiro - American Economic Journal: Applied …, 2024 - aeaweb.org
The paper studies the effect of health on work among older workers by eliciting two-and four-
year-ahead subjective probabilities of working under alternative health states. These …

Reported MPC and unobserved heterogeneity

T Jappelli, L Pistaferri - American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2020 - aeaweb.org
Panel data on reported marginal propensity to consume in the 2010 and 2016 Italian Survey
of Household Income and Wealth uncover a strong negative relationship between cash on …

Precise or imprecise probabilities? Evidence from survey response related to late-onset dementia

P Giustinelli, CF Manski… - Journal of the European …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We elicit numerical expectations for late-onset dementia and long-term-care (LTC) outcomes
in the US Health and Retirement Study. We provide the first empirical evidence on dementia …

Maternal investments in children: The role of expected effort and returns

S Bhalotra, A Delavande, P Font-Gilabert… - The Economic …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the importance of subjective expectations of returns to and effort costs of the
two principal investments that mothers make in newborns: breastfeeding and stimulation …

Adjusting for scale-use heterogeneity in self-reported well-being

DJ Benjamin, K Cooper, O Heffetz, MS Kimball, J Zhou - 2023 - nber.org
Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use
response scales differently. We use calibration questions, designed to have the same …