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Behavior

2 papers across 2 private calibration editions.

  1. 01
    W35526CH · EDHuman-reviewed abstract summary
    Relating Cognitive Skills and Personality Traits to Economic Preferences: Decision-Making under Cognitive Shocks and Guessing

    Cesar Chavez Padilla, Shuaizhang Feng, James J. Heckman, Zhe Yang

    A structural model of children’s choices finds that measured psychological traits are more strongly related to decision noise and guessing than to risk preferences themselves.

  2. 02
    W35537AG · EHHuman-reviewed abstract summary
    Effects of Lottery Incentives for Influenza Vaccination: Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Trial and Causal Forest Analysis

    Kelsey Moran, Gail Rosenbaum, Amir Goren, Michelle Meyer, Christopher F. Chabris, Joseph J. Doyle Jr.

    In a large influenza-vaccination trial, reminders increased vaccination, while small cash and lottery incentives did not outperform the reminder alone.