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  • February 2014
  • Article

Gender Differences in Willingness to Guess

By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman
We present the results of an experiment that explores whether women are less willing than men to guess on multiple-choice tests. Our test consists of practice questions from SAT II subject tests; we vary whether a penalty is imposed for a wrong answer and the salience... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Decision Making; Microeconomic Behavior; Education Systems; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Gender; Economics
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  • January 2022
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The Private Impact of Public Data: Landsat Satellite Maps Increased Gold Discoveries and Encouraged Entry

By: Abhishek Nagaraj
How does public data shape the relative performance of incumbents and entrants in the private sector? Using a simple theoretical framework, I argue that public data reduces investment uncertainty, facilitates the discovery of new market opportunities and increases the... View Details
Keywords: Public Data; Maps; Gold; Microeconomic Behavior; Economics; Data and Data Sets; Private Sector; Market Entry and Exit; Mining
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  • May 2020
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Ancient Origins of the Global Variation in Economic Preferences

By: Anke Becker, Benjamin Enke and Armin Falk
This paper shows that contemporary population-level heterogeneity in risk aversion, time preference, altruism, positive reciprocity, negative reciprocity, and trust partly traces back to the structure of the migration patterns of our very early ancestors. To document... View Details
Keywords: Migration Patterns; Behavioral Economics; Preferences; Microeconomics; Demography; Decision Making; Risk and Uncertainty; History; Global Range
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Salience

By: Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer
We review the fast-growing work on salience and economic behavior. Psychological research shows that salient stimuli attract human attention “bottom up” due to their high contrast with surroundings, their surprising nature relative to recalled experiences, or their... View Details
Keywords: Salience; Economic Behavior; Bottom Up Attention; Microeconomics; Decision Making; Behavior
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  • 04 Apr 2023
  • HBS Seminar

Leslie Marx, Duke University Fuqua School of Business

  • 07 Mar 2019
  • HBS Seminar

Petra Moser, NYU Stern School of Business

    Elon Kohlberg

    Elon Kohlberg is the Royal Little Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His research is mainly in Game Theory, in particular the study of non-cooperative equilibrium.

    Professor Kohlberg has taught many courses in the MBA,... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; education industry; energy; pharmaceuticals; real estate

      Jerry R. Green

      Jerry R. Green

      David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy

      John Leverett Professor in the University

      Harvard University

       

      Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details

      Keywords: aerospace; education industry; insurance industry; professional services
      • 15 Nov 2007
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Dynamic Interplay of Inequality and Trust: An Experimental Study

      Keywords: by Ben Greiner, Axel Ockenfels & Peter Werner
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      PhD Programs - Doctoral

      Business Economics provides students the opportunity to study in both Harvard’s world-class Economics Department and Harvard Business School. Throughout the program, coursework includes exploration of microeconomic theory, macroeconomic... View Details
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      Business Economics - Doctoral

      will take courses alongside your peers in the Department of Economics, studying microeconomic theory, macroeconomic theory, probability and statistics, econometrics, and other specialized topics. In addition, your doctoral coursework and... View Details
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      Program Requirements - Doctoral

      the Marketing faculty coordinators to receive approval of their course selections. Foundational Courses (2 courses) Students in the Marketing program choose one of the following sequences Microeconomics View Details
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      Program Requirements - Doctoral

      selections. Pre-approval by the TOM faculty coordinator is required if a student wishes to fulfill these requirements with alternative courses. Foundational Courses (2 courses) Innovation Track requirements : A comprehensive two semester sequence on economic theory:... View Details
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      Marketing - Doctoral

      field exam, and then another three years on dissertation research and writing. The Marketing program draws on computer science, economics, behavioral science, and psychological methods to focus on marketing problems faced by the firm and... View Details
      • 17 Jul 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees

      Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In May, Hall convened what he hopes will be a yearly conference of scholars now working in the burgeoning field of incentive design, which draws lessons from both microeconomics and... View Details
      Keywords: by Avery Forman
      • June 2008
      • Article

      How Are Preferences Revealed?

      By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
      Revealed preferences are tastes that rationalize an economic agent's observed actions. Normative preferences represent the agent's actual interests. It sometimes makes sense to assume that revealed preferences are identical to normative preferences. But there are many... View Details
      Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Attitudes; Microeconomics
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      Placement - Doctoral

      Economics, 2025 Placement: University of California, Santa Barbara, Economics Department Dissertation: Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics Advisors: Benjamin Enke (Chair), Tomasz Strzalecki , Joshua R. Schwartzstein , Matthew... View Details
      • May 2014
      • Article

      Representative Evidence on Lying Costs

      By: Johannes Abeler, Anke Becker and Armin Falk
      A central assumption in economics is that people misreport their private information if this is to their material benefit. Several recent models depart from this assumption and posit that some people do not lie or at least do not lie maximally. These models invoke many... View Details
      Keywords: Private Information; Lying Costs; Tax Morale; Representative Experiment; Information; Microeconomics; Taxation; Behavior
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      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      Do Collusive Norms Maximize Profits? Evidence From a Vegetable Market Experiment in India

      By: Abhijit Banerjee, Greg Fischer, Dean Karlan, Matt Lowe and Benjamin N. Roth
      Social norms have been shown to facilitate anti-competitive behavior in decentralized markets. We demonstrate that these norms can also reduce aggregate profits. First, we present descriptive evidence of competition-suppressing norms in Kolkata vegetable markets.... View Details
      Keywords: Collusion; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Small Business; Microeconomics; Kolkata
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      • 15 Jan 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: January 15, 2008

      specialize in different stages of a complex production process. This paper considers the pricing behavior and profitability of these so-called modular clusters. In particular, we investigate a possibility hinted at in prior work: that for... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace