Academic Research

Foundational Academic Research from our team.

Risk Preferences

Foundational research on how to scientifically reveal each individual's unique risk preferences.

An Old Measure of Decision-Making Quality Sheds New Light on Paternalism, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), March 2013.

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Consistency and Heterogeneity of Individual Behavior under Uncertainty, American Economic Review, March 2007.

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Estimating Ambiguity Aversion in a Portfolio Choice Experiment, Quantitative Economics, July 2014.

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Revealed Preference in a Discrete Consumption Space, American Economic Journal - Microeconomics, February 2013.

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Revealed Preferences over Risk and Uncertainty, American Economic Review, June 2020.

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Revealing Preferences Graphically: An Old Method Gets a New Toolkit, American Economic Review, May 2007.

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Social Preferences

Foundational research on how to scientifically reveal each individual's unique social preferences.

Distinguishing Social Preferences from Preferences for Altruism, Yale Law School, November 2005.

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Experimental Evidence of Physician Social Preferences, PNAS, April 2022.

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Individual Preferences for Giving, American Economic Review, December 2007.

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Social Preferences of Future Physicians, PNAS, September 2017.

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The Distributional Preferences of an Elite, Science, September 2015.

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Retirement Preferences

Foundational research on how to scientifically reveal each individual's unique retirement income preferences.

Estimating Lifecycle Parameters from Consumption Behavior at Retirement, National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2005.

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Harnessing Naturally Occurring Data to Measure the Response of Spending to Income, Science, July 2014.

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The Role of Annuitized Wealth in Post-Retirement Behavior, American Economic Journal - Macroeconomics, July 2018

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