Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Behavioral Economics"

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    • Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics 

      Mollerstrom, Johanna Britta (2013-10-08)
      This dissertation consists of three essays which make use of laboratory experiments in order to investigate how procedural or contextual factors impact human behavior.

    • Essays in Health Economics: Understanding Risky Health Behaviors 

      Friedman, Abigail Sarah (2014-06-06)
      This dissertation presents three papers applying health economics to the study of risky behaviors. The first uses data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the relationship between adverse events ...

    • Essays on Inefficient Information Flow and Biased Beliefs 

      Jiang, Yixi (2022-10-18)
      This dissertation contains three chapters. Using a combination of field experiments and lab experiments, it examines the barriers that prevent the efficient flow of information and decision markers’ biased beliefs that ...