Consistent with mental accounting, we document that investors
sometimes choose the asset allocation for one account without…
From Internet-dating profiles to Native American folktales to the photo trickery of Hollywood gossip magazines, this volume explores…
We show that individual investors over-extrapolate from their personal experience when making savings decisions. Investors who experience…
We evaluate why individuals invest in high-fee index funds. In our experiments, subjects each allocate $10,000 across four S&P 500…
Defaults often have a large influence on consumer decisions. We identify an overlooked but practical alternative to defaults: requiring…
Book abstract: Analytical sociology is a strategy for understanding the social world. It is concerned with explaining important social…
For several decades now a debate has raged about policy-making by litigation. Spurred by the way in which tobacco, environmental, and…
Book abstract: The new Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences is an indispensable resource for all who wish to find out…
This study assesses the factors influencing the movement of people across health plans. We distinguish three types of cost-related…
Money is the prime incentive in economic models. Recent evidence makes it clear that people are also greatly concerned about how their…