Behavioral Center Papers
- Economic Literacy and Inflation Expectations: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
Public Policy Discussion Paper No. 11-8 by Mary A. Burke and Michael Manz - Affective Decision Making: A Theory of Optimism Bias
Working Paper 10-16 by Anat Bracha and Donald J. Brown - Characterizing the Amount and Speed of Discounting Procedures
Working Paper 10-14 by Dean T. Jamison and Julian C. Jamison - Moral
Hazard, Peer Monitoring, and Microcredit: Field Experimental
Evidence from Paraguay
Working Paper 10-6 by Jeffrey Carpenter and Tyler Williams - Public and
Private Values
Working Paper 10-5 by Dan Ariely, Anat Bracha, and Jean-Paul L’Huillier - Policymaking
Insights from Behavioral Economics
Book based on Boston Fed's 2007 conference "Implications of Behavioral Economics for Economic Policy" - Seeds
to Succeed: Sequential Giving to Public Projects
Working Paper 09-21 by Anat Bracha, Michael Menietti, and Lise Vesterlund - Multiple Selves
in Intertemporal Choice
Working Paper 09-17 by Julian Jamison and Jon Wegener - Social and Private Learning with Endogenous Decision Timing
Working Paper 09-11 by Julian Jamison, David Owens, and Glenn Woroch - Another Hidden Cost of Incentives: The Detrimental Effect on Norm Enforcement
Working Paper 09-2 by Andreas Fuster and Stephan Meier - Blood Donations and Incentives:
Evidence from a Field Experiment
Working Paper 08-3 by Lorenz Goette and Alois Stutzer - Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and Private Sectors
Public Policy Discussion Paper P08-1 by Simon Luechinger, Stephan Meier, and Alois Stutzer - The Effects of Expectations on Perception: Experimental Design Issues and Further Evidence
Working Paper W07-14 by Tyler Williams - Active Decisions and Pro-Social Behavior
Working Paper W07-13 by Alois Stutzer, Lorenz Goette, and Michael Zehnder - Social Networks and Vaccination Decisions
Working Paper W07-12 by Neel Rao, Markus M. Möbius, and Tanya Rosenblat - Discounting Financial Literacy: Time Preferences and Participation in Financial Education
Programs
Public Policy Discussion Paper 07-5 by Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger - How Much Is a Friend Worth? Directed Altruism and Enforced Reciprocity in Social Networks
Working Paper 07-11 by Stephen Leider, Markus M. Möbius, Tanya Rosenblat, and Quoc-Anh Do - Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially
Working Paper 07-9 by Dan Ariely, Anat Bracha, and Stephan Meier - Overborrowing and Undersaving: Lessons and Policy Implications from Research in Behavioral Economics
Community Affairs Discussion Paper by Marques Benton, Stephan Meier, and Charles Sprenger - Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model
Working Paper 07-5 by Julio J. Rotemberg - Impatience and Credit Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Working Paper 07-3 by Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger - Do Subsidies Increase Charitable Giving in the Long Run? Matching Donations in a Field Experiment
Working Paper 06-18 by Stephan Meier - The Future of Life-Cycle Saving & Investing
Papers and presentations from the conference held on Oct. 25-27, 2006 - How Small is Zero Price? The True Value of Free Products
Working Paper 06-16 by Kristina Shampan’er and Dan Ariely - Minimally Acceptable Altruism and the Ultimatum Game
Working Paper 06-12 by Julio J. Rotemberg - Social Dynamics of Obesity
Public Policy Discussion Paper 06-5 by Mary Burke and Frank Heiland - Do People Behave in Experiments as in the Field? Evidence from Donations
Working Paper 06-8 by Matthias Benz and Stephan Meier - The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence Using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups
Working Paper 06-7 by Lorenz Goette, David Huffman, and Stephan Meier - A Survey of Economic Theories and Field Evidence on Pro-Social Behavior
Working Paper 06-6 by Stephan Meier - Dishonesty in Everyday Life and its Policy Implications
Working Paper 06-3 by Nina Mazar and Dan Ariely - Large Stakes and Big Mistakes
Working Paper 05-11 by Dan Ariely, Uri Gneezy, George Loewenstein, and Nina Mazar - Tom Sawyer and the Construction of Value
Working Paper 05-10 by Dan Ariely, George Loewenstein, and Drazen Prelec - Deciding to Distrust
Public Policy Discussion Paper 05-4 by Iris Bohnet and Stephan Meier
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