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 »
Forthcoming, Methods
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 of subjective belief distributions allow… 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.
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 products, general… 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 »
Published in 2019 in Risk Management & Insurance Review, Volume 22.
AUTHORS: Glenn W. Harrison and Jia Min Ng
ABSTRACT: Decisions to purchase insurance should be a perfect place to see economic theory at work in general, and behavioral economics at work in particular. We have well‐developed theories of the… more »
Published in 2019 in Journal of the Economic Science Association, Volume 5, Issue 1.
AUTHORS: Glenn W. Harrison and J. Todd Swarthout
ABSTRACT: We examine the ability of eye movement data to help understand the determinants of decision-making over risky prospects. We start with structural models of choice under risk,… more »
Published in 2017 in Health Economics, Volume 26, Issue S3.
AUTHORS: Glenn W. Harrison
ABSTRACT: Behavioral responses to surveys can significantly affect inferences about population prevalence unless correctly modeled statistically. An important case study is the prevalence of nicotine dependence, a formal psychiatric disorder satisfying clinical criteria. Data from the National… more »
Published in Contemporary Philosophy and Social Science: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, edited by Michiru Nagatsu, and Attilia Ruzzene, London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.
AUTHORS: Glenn W. Harrison
ABSTRACT: Behavioral econometrics is one part of a methodological trinity that includes theory, data collection and econometrics. Sometimes, on a good methodological day, there are… more »
