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A TEST OF CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION: VISIBILITY AND INCOME ELASTICITIES by Heffetz, Ori

“…This paper shows that, consistent with a signaling-by-consuming model à la Veblen, income elasticities can be predicted from the visibility of consumer…”
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Beyond Happiness and Satisfaction: Toward Well-Being Indices Based on Stated Preference by Benjamin, Daniel J., Heffetz, Ori, Kimball, Miles S., Szembrot, Nichole

“…This paper proposes foundations and a methodology for survey-based tracking of well-being. First, we develop a theory in which utility depends on "fundamental…”
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What Do You Think Would Make You Happier? What Do You Think You Would Choose? by Benjamin, Daniel J., Heffetz, Ori, Kimball, Miles S., Rees-Jones, Alex

“…Would people choose what they think would maximize their subjective well-being (SWB)? We present survey respondents with hypothetical scenarios and elicit both…”
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IS THE ENDOWMENT EFFECT AN EXPECTATIONS EFFECT? by Heffetz, Ori, List, John A.

“…A hallmark result within behavioral economics is that individuals' choices are affected by current endowments. A recent theory due to Kőszegi and Rabin (2006,…”
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Are reference points merely lagged beliefs over probabilities? by Heffetz, Ori

“…What explains the mixed evidence from laboratory tests of Kőszegi and Rabin’s (2006 and later) model of expectations-based reference-dependent preferences? We…”
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Estimating perceptions of the relative COVID risk of different social-distancing behaviors from respondents' pairwise assessments by Heffetz, Ori, Rabin, Matthew

“…How do people compare the effectiveness of different social-distancing behaviors in avoiding the spread of viral infection? During the COVID pandemic, we…”
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Conclusions Regarding Cross-Group Differences in Happiness Depend on Difficulty of Reaching Respondents by Heffetz, Ori, Rabin, Matthew

“…A growing literature explores differences in subjective well-being across demographic groups, often relying on surveys with high nonresponse rates. By using…”
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Privacy and Data-Based Research by Heffetz, Ori, Ligett, Katrina

“…What can we, as users of microdata, formally guarantee to the individuals (or firms) in our dataset, regarding their privacy? We retell a few stories,…”
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Additive vs. subtractive earning in shared human-robot work environments by Dreyfuss, Bnaya, Heffetz, Ori, Hoffman, Guy, Ishai, Guy, Kshirsagar, Alap

“…The performance of robots working alongside humans might positively or negatively affect humans' earnings, depending on the economic setting. In a new…”
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Beyond GDP. By MarcFleurbaey and DidierBlanchet. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2013. xvi + 306 pp. £32.50 by Heffetz, Ori

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Who sees what? Demographics and the visibility of consumer expenditures by Heffetz, Ori

“…A growing body of work on social phenomena (like status, peer effects, social comparisons and fashion) rests on assumptions regarding the social observability…”
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Can marginal rates of substitution be inferred from happiness data?: Evidence from residency choices by Benjamin, Daniel J., Heffetz, Ori, Kimball, Miles S., Rees-Jones, Alex

“…We survey 561 students from US medical schools shortly after they submit choice rankings over residencies to the National Resident Matching Program. We elicit…”
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Challenges in Constructing a Survey-Based Well-Being Index by Benjamin, Daniel J., Cooper, Kristen B., Heffetz, Ori, Kimball, Miles

“…How should a survey-based measure of well-being be implemented? How could it be constructed in a systematic and politically neutral way? These questions should…”
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From Happiness Data to Economic Conclusions by Benjamin, Daniel J, Cooper, Kristen, Heffetz, Ori, Kimball, Miles

“…Happiness data—survey respondents’ self-reported well-being (SWB)—have become increasingly common in economics research, with recent calls to use them in…”
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What do Happiness Data Mean? Theory and Survey Evidence by Benjamin, Daniel J, Debnam Guzman, Jakina, Fleurbaey, Marc, Heffetz, Ori, Kimball, Miles

“…Abstract What utility notion—e.g. flow/lifetime, self/family-centered—do self-reported well-being (SWB) questions measure? Existing applications make different…”
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How Large Are Non-Budget-Constraint Effects of Prices on Demand? by Heffetz, Ori, Shayo, Moses

“…Elementary consumer theory assumes prices affect demand only because they affect the budget constraint (BC). Alternative models, and some evidence, suggest…”
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The relationship between the normalized gradient addition mechanism and quadratic voting by Benjamin, Daniel, Heffetz, Ori, Kimball, Miles, Lougee, Derek

“…Quadratic voting and the normalized gradient addition mechanism are both social choice mechanisms that confront individuals with quadratic budget constraints,…”
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Aggregating Local Preferences to Guide Marginal Policy Adjustments by Benjamin, Daniel J., Heffetz, Ori, Kimball, Miles S., Szembrot, Nichole

“…We propose a social choice rule for aggregating preferences elicited from surveys into a marginal adjustment of policy from the status quo. The mechanism is:…”
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A Well-Being Snapshot in a Changing World by Benjamin, Daniel J., Cooper, Kristen B., Heffetz, Ori, Kimball, Miles

“…Although technology-driven economic growth generates gains in consumption and employment opportunities, it may also negatively impact other dimensions of…”
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Describing Deferred Acceptance and Strategyproofness to Participants: Experimental Analysis by Gonczarowski, Yannai A, Heffetz, Ori, Ishai, Guy, Thomas, Clayton

“…We conduct an incentivized lab experiment to test participants' ability to understand the DA matching mechanism and the strategyproofness property, conveyed in…”
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