Essays in behavioral and experimental economics with applications to risk and social preferences
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation describes my research in several related areas of behavioral and experimental economics. In the first chapter, I use subjective and hypothetical responses to show that opt-in choice framing leads to greater organ donor designation rates than active choice framing. I use the same methodology to accurately predict behavior in settings where standard models of social preferences fail. In the second chapter, I show that machine learning models and economic models predict equally well in domains of risk, but economic models fall behind when ambiguity is introduced. In the final chapter, I present a field experiment that shows that making a commitment choice public increases demand for the device, indicating that participants believe they can reveal something positive about themselves by using the device.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Naecker, Jeffrey Kendell |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Economics. |
| Primary advisor | Bernheim, B. Douglas |
| Thesis advisor | Bernheim, B. Douglas |
| Thesis advisor | Niederle, Muriel |
| Thesis advisor | Sprenger, Charles |
| Advisor | Niederle, Muriel |
| Advisor | Sprenger, Charles |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jeffrey Kendell Naecker. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Economics. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Jeffrey Kendell Naecker
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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