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  • 10 Jun 2020
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The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the US

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On the Revelation of Preferences for Public Goods

By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
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Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "On the Revelation of Preferences for Public Goods." Journal of Public Economics 8, no. 1 (August 1977): 79–93.
  • July 1982 (Revised March 1984)
  • Background Note

Why Preference Curves are Useful for Risky Decisions

By: David E. Bell
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Decision Making
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Bell, David E. "Why Preference Curves are Useful for Risky Decisions." Harvard Business School Background Note 183-030, July 1982. (Revised March 1984.)
  • September 2014
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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

By: William R. Kerr
In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern,... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Income; Government and Politics
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Kerr, William R. "Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials." Journal of Monetary Economics 66 (September 2014): 62–78.
  • January 2020
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One of a Kind: The Strong and Complex Preference for Unique Treatment from Romantic Partners

By: Lalin Anik and Ryan Hauser
Individuals prefer romantic partners who universally treat others well (i.e., partners who exhibit trait-level generosity) and also prefer partners who treat them uniquely. Previous work supports both preferences, yet the literature has largely ignored what happens... View Details
Keywords: Relationships; Behavior; Satisfaction
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Anik, Lalin, and Ryan Hauser. "One of a Kind: The Strong and Complex Preference for Unique Treatment from Romantic Partners." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 86 (January 2020).
  • December 1988
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Ordinal Independence in Non-Linear Utility Theory

By: Jerry R. Green and Bruno Jullien
Individual behavior under uncertainty is characterized using a new axiom, ordinal independence, which is a weakened form of the von Neumann-Morgcnslern independence axiom. It states that if two distributions share a tail in common, then this tail can be modified... View Details
Keywords: Preferences
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Green, Jerry R., and Bruno Jullien. "Ordinal Independence in Non-Linear Utility Theory." Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 1, no. 4 (December 1988): 355–387.
  • 20 Jan 2017
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A theory from two Harvard professors explains why American voters prefer incompetence

  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Algorithm Appreciation: People Prefer Algorithmic to Human Judgment

By: Jennifer M. Logg, Julia A. Minson and Don A. Moore
Even though computational algorithms often outperform human judgment, received wisdom suggests that people may be skeptical of relying on them (Dawes, 1979). Counter to this notion, results from six experiments show that lay people adhere more to advice when they think... View Details
Keywords: Algorithms; Accuracy; Advice Taking; Forecasting; Theory Of Machine; Mathematical Methods; Decision Making; Forecasting and Prediction; Trust
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Logg, Jennifer M., Julia A. Minson, and Don A. Moore. "Algorithm Appreciation: People Prefer Algorithmic to Human Judgment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-086, March 2017. (Revised April 2018.)
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Import Competition, Heterogeneous Preferences of Managers, and Productivity

By: Claudia Steinwender and Cheng Chen
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Steinwender, Claudia, and Cheng Chen. "Import Competition, Heterogeneous Preferences of Managers, and Productivity." Working Paper, December 2016.
  • 01 Oct 2015
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The Real Reason Men and Women Prefer Male Bosses

  • December 2010
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Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts

This paper reports a three-phase experiment on a stylized labor market. In the first two phases, agents face simple games, which we use to estimate subjects' social and reciprocity concerns. In the last phase, four principals compete by offering agents a contract from... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Risk and Uncertainty; Markets; Contracts; Decisions; Distribution; Labor; Game Theory
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Cabrales, Antonio, Raffaele Miniaci, Marco Piovesan, and Giovanni Ponti. "Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts." American Economic Review 100, no. 5 (December 2010): 2261–2278.
  • 24 Mar 2022
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The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States

  • September 1977 (Revised October 1987)
  • Background Note

Preference Analysis: A Method for Choosing Among Risky Strateg ies

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Oksman, Warren. "Preference Analysis: A Method for Choosing Among Risky Strateg ies." Harvard Business School Background Note 178-010, September 1977. (Revised October 1987.)
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Heuristics Guide the Implementation of Social Preferences in One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma Experiments

By: Jillian J. Jordan, Valerio Capraro and David G. Rand
Cooperation in one-shot anonymous interactions is a widely documented aspect of human behavior. Here we shed light on the motivations behind this behavior by experimentally exploring cooperation in a one-shot continuous-strategy Prisoner’s Dilemma (i.e. one-shot... View Details
Keywords: Human Behavior; Social Evolution; Behavior; Cooperation; Decision Making; Game Theory
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Jordan, Jillian J., Valerio Capraro, and David G. Rand. "Heuristics Guide the Implementation of Social Preferences in One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma Experiments." Art. 6790. Scientific Reports 4 (2014).
  • 2006
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How Institutional Norms and Individual Preferences Legitimate Organizational Names

By: Mary Ann Glynn and Christopher Marquis
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Personal Characteristics; Perspective; Attitudes; Prejudice and Bias
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Glynn, Mary Ann, and Christopher Marquis. "How Institutional Norms and Individual Preferences Legitimate Organizational Names." In Artifacts and Organizations, edited by Anat Rafaeli and Michael Pratt, 223–239. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006.
  • October 1, 2015
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The Real Reason Men and Women Prefer Male Bosses

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
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Kanter, Rosabeth M. "The Real Reason Men and Women Prefer Male Bosses." Wall Street Journal (online) (October 1, 2015).
  • May 1999
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Explaining How Preferences Change across Joint Versus Separate Evaluations

By: M. H. Bazerman, D. Moore, A. E. Tenbrunsel and K. A. Wade-Benzoni
Keywords: Change; Information
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Bazerman, M. H., D. Moore, A. E. Tenbrunsel, and K. A. Wade-Benzoni. "Explaining How Preferences Change across Joint Versus Separate Evaluations." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 39, no. 1 (May 1999): 41–58.
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Extremeness Seeking: When and Why Consumers Prefer the Extremes

By: John T. Gourville and Dilip Soman
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Gourville, John T., and Dilip Soman. "Extremeness Seeking: When and Why Consumers Prefer the Extremes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-092, May 2007.
  • March 2001
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Preferences over Inflation and Unemployment: Evidence from Surveys of Happiness

By: Rafael Di Tella, Robert MacCulloch and Andrew Oswald
Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Happiness
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Di Tella, Rafael, Robert MacCulloch, and Andrew Oswald. "Preferences over Inflation and Unemployment: Evidence from Surveys of Happiness." American Economic Review 91, no. 1 (March 2001).
  • 1 May 1995
  • Conference Presentation

The Work Preference Inventory: Assessing Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivational Orientations

By: Teresa M. Amabile
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives
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Amabile, Teresa M. "The Work Preference Inventory: Assessing Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivational Orientations." Paper presented at the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, May 1, 1995.
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