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WP 2020-22 Subjective Beliefs and Economic Preferences During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Published in 2022 in Experimental Economics, Volume 25.

AUTHORS: Glenn W. Harrison, Andre Hofmeyr, Harold Kincaid, Brian Monroe, Don Ross, Mark Schneider and J. Todd Swarthout

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic presents a remarkable opportunity to put to work all of the research that has been undertaken in past decades on the… more »

WP 2020-21 A Case Study of an Experiment During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Online Elicitation of Subjective Beliefs and Economic Preferences

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Forthcoming, Journal of the Economic Science Association

AUTHORS: Glenn W. Harrison, Andre Hofmeyr, Harold Kincaid, Brian Monroe, Don Ross, Mark Schneider and J. Todd Swarthout

ABSTRACT: We convey our experiences developing and implementing an online experiment to elicit subjective beliefs and economic preferences. The COVID-19 pandemic and associated closures of our… more »

WP 2020-20 Eliciting Beliefs about COVID-19 Prevalence and Mortality: Epidemiological Models Compared with The Street

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Published in 2021 in Methods, Volume 195.

AUTHORS: Glenn W. Harrison, Andre Hofmeyr, Harold Kincaid, Brian Monroe, Don Ross, Mark Schneider, J. Todd Swarthout

ABSTRACT: Subjective belief elicitation about uncertain events has a long lineage in the economics and statistics literatures. Recent developments in the experimental elicitation and statistical estimation… more »

WP 2020-19 Strategic Theory of Norms for Empirical Applications in Political Science and Political Economy

Posted On November 3, 2020
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AUTHORS: Don Ross, Wynn C. Stirling, and Luca Tummolini

ABSTRACT: The study of social norms sprawls across all of the social sciences. Consequently, the concept lacks a unified conception, let alone a generally acknowledged formal theory. We aim to synthesize an account that can be applied generally, at the social… more »

WP 2020-18 Primal and Dual Methods for Estimating Random Preference Models of Risk Attitudes

Posted On October 20, 2020
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AUTHORS: Morten I. Lau & Hong Il Yoo

ABSTRACT: We present two methods for estimating Random Preference (RP) models of risk attitudes. Our first method is intended for any class of RP models, including those addressing multidimensional risk attitudes as per non-expected utility theories. Existing methods cannot be used to… more »

WP 2020-16 Experimental Design and Bayesian Interpretation

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Prepared for H. Kincaid and D. Ross (eds.), Modern Guide to the Philosophy of Economics (Cheltenham, UK: Elgar, forthcoming 2021).

AUTHORS: Glenn W. Harrison

ABSTRACT: If we take seriously the intent to improve welfare for individuals with experimental interventions, then we must allow that we are also capable of doing… more »

WP 2020-15 Estimating Risk Preferences for Individuals: A Bayesian Approach

Posted On September 24, 2020
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AUTHORS: Xiaoxue Sherry Gao, Glenn W. Harrison and Rusty Tchernis

ABSTRACT: Risk preferences play a central role in many descriptive and normative inferences about economic behavior. It is natural to expect that risk preference are heterogeneous. We evaluate a series of Bayesian econometric models that allow for different levels of… more »

WP 2020-14 Behavioral Welfare Economics and Risk Preferences: A Bayesian Approach

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Forthcoming, Experimental Economics

AUTHORS: Xiaoxue Sherry Gao, Glenn W. Harrison and Rusty Tchernis

ABSTRACT: We propose the use of Bayesian estimation of risk preferences of individuals for applications of behavioral welfare economics to evaluate observed choices that involve risk. Bayesian estimation provides more systematic control of the use of informative… more »