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An Economic Framework of Microbial Trade by Tasoff, Joshua, Mee, Michael T, Wang, Harris H

“…A large fraction of microbial life on earth exists in complex communities where metabolic exchange is vital. Microbes trade essential resources to promote…”
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Changing Hearts and Plates: The Effect of Animal-Advocacy Pamphlets on Meat Consumption by Haile, Menbere, Jalil, Andrew, Tasoff, Joshua, Vargas Bustamante, Arturo

“…Social movements have driven large shifts in public attitudes and values, from anti-slavery to marriage equality. A central component of these movements is…”
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Trick for a treat: The effect of costume, identity, and peers on norm violations by Zhang, Shanshan, Gomies, Matthew, Bejanyan, Narek, Fang, Zhou, Justo, Jason, Lin, Li-Hsin, Narender, Rainita, Tasoff, Joshua

“…We hypothesize that clothes can affect the behavior of the wearer by influencing the person’s identity. We test this hypothesis by recruiting trick-or-treaters…”
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Fantasy and Dread: The Demand for Information and the Consumption Utility of the Future by Ganguly, Ananda, Tasoff, Joshua

“…We present evidence that intrinsic demand for information about the future is increasing in expected future consumption utility. In the first experiment,…”
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The Performance of Time-Preference and Risk-Preference Measures in Surveys by Tasoff, Joshua, Zhang, Wenjie

“…Time preferences and risk preferences play an important role in a wide range of behavior, including financial decisions, entrepreneurship, and the proper…”
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Everyone believes in redemption: Nudges and overoptimism in costly task completion by Tasoff, Joshua, Letzler, Robert

“…•Subjects are overoptimistic that they will redeem a mail-in rebate.•Information and reminder interventions do not significantly decrease overoptimism.•A…”
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EXPONENTIAL-GROWTH BIAS AND LIFECYCLE CONSUMPTION by Levy, Matthew, Tasoff, Joshua

“…Exponential-growth bias (EGB) is the tendency for individuals to partially neglect compounding of exponential growth. We develop a model wherein biased agents…”
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Eating to save the planet: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial using individual-level food purchase data by Jalil, Andrew J., Tasoff, Joshua, Bustamante, Arturo Vargas

“…•Climate change-health educational intervention reduces meat consumption.•'Win-win' message (EAT-Lancet Commission) leads to sustainable dietary…”
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Exponential-growth bias and overconfidence by Levy, Matthew R., Tasoff, Joshua

“…•We measure exponential-growth bias and overconfidence in a laboratory experiment.•People exhibit exponential-growth bias.•People exhibit overconfidence in…”
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When higher productivity hurts: The interaction between overconfidence and capital by Royal, Andrew, Tasoff, Joshua

“…•We model the interaction between productivity-enhancing capital and overconfidence.•Capital that is a complement with ability can make an agent worse…”
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Placation and provocation by Tasoff, Joshua

“…It has been observed that industries self-regulate to placate a regulator from taking action, and revolutionary vanguards sometimes provoke an apathetic…”
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Who is a passive saver under opt-in and auto-enrollment? by Goda, Gopi Shah, Levy, Matthew R., Manchester, Colleen Flaherty, Sojourner, Aaron, Tasoff, Joshua

“…Defaults have been shown to have a powerful effect on retirement saving behavior yet there is limited research on who is most affected by defaults and whether…”
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PREDICTING RETIREMENT SAVINGS USING SURVEY MEASURES OF EXPONENTIAL‐GROWTH BIAS AND PRESENT BIAS by Goda, Gopi Shah, Levy, Matthew, Manchester, Colleen Flaherty, Sojourner, Aaron, Tasoff, Joshua

“…In a nationally representative sample, we predict retirement savings using survey‐based elicitations of exponential‐growth bias (EGB) and present bias (PB). We…”
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Are retirement planning tools substitutes or complements to financial capability? by Goda, Gopi Shah, Levy, Matthew R., Flaherty Manchester, Colleen, Sojourner, Aaron, Tasoff, Joshua, Xiao, Jiusi

“…We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how a web-based retirement saving calculator affects workers' retirement-savings decisions. In both the…”
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Low-cost climate-change informational intervention reduces meat consumption among students for 3 years by Jalil, Andrew J, Tasoff, Joshua, Bustamante, Arturo Vargas

“…Evidence on the impact of information campaigns on meat consumption patterns is limited. Here, using a dataset of more than 100,000 meal selections over 3…”
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Exponential‐growth Bias in Experimental Consumption Decisions by Levy, Matthew R., Tasoff, Joshua

“…Exponential‐growth bias (EGB) is the tendency to neglect the power of compounding interest, which has been found to be widespread in the population. A person…”
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An Economic Framework of Microbial Trade: e0132907 by Tasoff, Joshua, Mee, Michael T, Wang, Harris H

“…A large fraction of microbial life on earth exists in complex communities where metabolic exchange is vital. Microbes trade essential resources to promote…”
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Essays in psychological and political economics by Tasoff, Joshua David

“…This dissertation is composed of three unrelated chapters, all of which are theoretical. In Chapter 1, co-authored with Kristóf Madarász, we develop a model in…”
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Supervised Machine Learning for Eliciting Individual Demand by Clithero, John A, Lee, Jae Joon, Tasoff, Joshua

“…Direct elicitation, guided by theory, is the standard method for eliciting latent preferences. The canonical direct-elicitation approach for measuring…”
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What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill, Basic Books, 2023, 368 pp., $32 (hardcover); $18.99 (ebook); $19.99 (paper) by Tasoff, Joshua

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