Forthcoming in G.W. Harrison and D. Ross (eds.), Models of Risk Preferences: Descriptive and Normative Challenges, (Bingley, UK: Emerald, Research in Experimental Economics, 2023).
ABSTRACT: Behavioral economics poses a challenge for the welfare evaluation of choices, particularly those that involve risk. It demands that we recognize that the descriptive account… more »
Forthcoming, Handbook of Choice Modeling
AUTHORS: Glenn W. Harrison
ABSTRACT: There is evidence that behavior changes when individuals make choices over hypothetical scenarios and stakes rather than real scenarios and stakes. What is the nature of this evidence, and how significant is it for different types of inferences? In particular,… more »
Published in 2021 in Experimental Economics.
AUTHORS: Aleksandr Alekseev
ABSTRACT: I study the effect of task difficulty on workers’ effort. I find that task difficulty has an inverse-U effect on effort and that this effect is quantitatively large, especially when compared to the effect of conditional monetary rewards. Difficulty acts as… more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Published in 2021 in Behavioural Public Policy, Volume 5, Special Issue 1: Field Experiments and Public Policy.
AUTHORS: Glenn W. Harrison
ABSTRACT: The current state of the art in field experiments does not give me any confidence that we should be assuming that we have anything worth scaling, assuming we… more »
Published in 2021 in Geneva Risk & Insurance Review, Volume 47.
AUTHORS: Glenn Harrison, Karlijn Morsink and Mark Schneider
ABSTRACT: There is widespread concern in developing countries with the expansion of formal insurance products to help manage significant risks. These concerns arise primarily from a lack of understanding of insurance… more »
Published in 2022 in Public Choice, Volume 191.
AUTHORS: Anabela Botelho, Glenn W. Harrison, Lígia M. Costa Pinto, Don Ross and Elisabet E. Rutström
ABSTRACT: Does the desirability of social institutions for public goods provision depend on the extent to which they include mechanisms for endogenous enforcement of cooperative behavior?… more »
Published in 2019 in The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, Volume 44, Issue 2.
AUTHORS: Glenn W. Harrison
ABSTRACT: Behavioral economics poses a challenge for the welfare evaluation of insurance products and policy. It demands that we recognize that the descriptive account of behavior toward insurance depends on risk and… more »
