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Testimonials Do Not Convert Patients from Brand to Generic Medication
(Managed Care & Healthcare Communications, 2013)
Objectives: To assess whether the addition of a peer testimonial to an informational mailing increases conversion rates from brand-name prescription medications to lower-cost therapeutic equivalents, and whether the ...
Consumers’ Misunderstanding of Health Insurance
(Elsevier BV, 2013)
We report results from two surveys of representative samples of Americans with private health insurance. The first examines how well Americans understand, and believe they understand, traditional health insurance coverage. ...
What Goes Up Must Come Down? Experimental Evidence on Intuitive Forecasting
(American Economic Association, 2013)
Do laboratory subjects correctly perceive the dynamics of a mean-reverting time series? In our experiment, subjects receive historical data and make forecasts at different horizons. The time series process that we use ...
Safety in Markets: An Impossibility Theorem for Dutch Books
(2007)
We show that competitive markets protect consumers from many forms of exploitation, even when consumers have non-standard preferences. We analyze a competitive dynamic economy in which consumers have arbitrary time-separable ...
Why It Is Hard to Find Genes Associated With Social Science Traits: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations
(American Public Health Association, 2013)
OBJECTIVES:
We explain why traits of interest to behavioral scientists may have a genetic architecture featuring hundreds or thousands of loci with tiny individual effects rather than a few with large effects and why such ...
Natural Expectations, Macroeconomic Dynamics, and Asset Pricing
(University of Chicago Press, 2011)
What Is for Me Is Not for You: Brain Correlates of Intertemporal Choice for Self and Other
(Oxford University Press, 2011)
People have present-biased preferences: they choose more impatiently when choosing between an immediate reward and a delayed reward, than when choosing between a delayed reward and a more delayed reward. Following McClure ...
The Promises and Pitfalls of Genoeconomics
(Annual Reviews, 2012)
This article reviews existing research at the intersection of genetics and economics, presents some new findings that illustrate the state of genoeconomics research, and surveys the prospects of this emerging field. Twin ...
Cognitive Function Is Associated with Risk Aversion in Community-Based Older Persons
(BioMed Central, 2011)
Background: Emerging data from younger and middle-aged persons suggest that cognitive ability is negatively associated with risk aversion, but this association has not been studied among older persons who are at high risk ...
Intertemporal Choice - Toward an Integrative Framework
(Elsevier, 2007)
Intertemporal choices are decisions with consequences that play out over time. These choices range from the prosaic–-how much food to eat at a meal– to life--changing decisions about education, marriage, fertility, health ...