Economics: Recent submissions
Now showing items 1-5 of 570
-
Reverse Bayesianism and act independence
(Elsevier, 2022)Karni and Viero (2013) propose a model of belief revision under growing awareness - reverse Bayesianism - which posits that as a person becomes aware of new acts, consequences, or act-consequence links, she revises her ... -
Encouraging Female Graduates to Enter the Labor Force: Evidence from a Role Model Intervention in Pakistan
(University of Chicago Press, 2022)Pakistan has gender parity in tertiary enrollment yet labor force participation rate of female graduates is one-third that of the male graduates. We conducted a randomised control trial with 2500 final year female undergraduate ... -
The effect of priming on fraud: Evidence from a natural field experiment
(Wiley / Western Economic Association International, 30 April 2022)We present a natural field experiment to examine if priming can influence behavior in a market for credence goods. 40 testers took 600 taxi journeys in Vienna, Austria, and using a between–subject design we vary the ... -
Human-centred mechanism design with democratic AI
(Nature Research, 2022)Building artificial intelligence (AI) that aligns with human values is an unsolved problem. Here, we developed a human-in-the-loop research pipeline called Democratic AI, in which reinforcement learning is used to design ... -
Effects of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage for Individuals in Same-Sex Couples
(Duke University Press, 3 September 2021)A large body of research documents that the 2010 dependent coverage mandate of the U.S. Affordable Care Act was responsible for significantly increasing health insurance coverage among young adults. No prior research has ...