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  • 17 Nov 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

Equity Concerns Are Narrowly Framed

Keywords: by Christine L. Exley and Judd B. Kessler
  • 16 Feb 2021
  • Working Paper Summaries

Information Avoidance and Image Concerns

Keywords: by Christine L. Exley and Judd B. Kessler
  • 10 Sep 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Don’t Take ‘No’ for an Answer: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations

Keywords: by Judd B. Kessler & Alvin E. Roth
  • 13 Nov 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion

Keywords: by Christine L. Exley and Judd B. Kessler
  • 12 Sep 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Better is the Enemy of the Good

Keywords: by Christine L. Exley and Judd B. Kessler
  • 29 Dec 2019
  • News

Microfinance Spurs Sustained Growth—but Not for Everyone

  • 31 Dec 2019
  • News

How Selfish Motives Drive People To Make Dumb Mistakes

  • 26 Feb 2020
  • News

Do Women And Men Have A Confidence Gap?

  • 12 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

external shocks. A quantitative exercise of the Brazilian economy suggests this strategy to be effective for smoothing consumption and reducing the occurrence of default. The Better Is the Enemy of the Good By: Exley, Christine L., and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

verdicts, increasing the probability of a favorable outcome. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54560 Motivated Errors By: Exley, Christine L., and Judd B. View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Sep 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Don't Bring Me Down: Probing Why People Tune Out Bad News

recruiting 4,626 people to complete an experiment. In all treatments, study participants chose between two options, A and B. In the “classic” treatment that replicated prior work, the participants knew they’d earn more View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 19 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving

overweight the risks, punishing the charity simply for not being perfect. “People exaggerate a charity’s metrics to the extent that they use it as an excuse not to give at all,” she says. In her current study with Judd View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 21 Nov 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

period. Stock indexes can affect behavior by functioning as a source of prestige. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53030 Equity Concerns Are Narrowly Framed By: Exley, Christine L., and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

coders display pervasive stereotypes, associating warmth with women and competence and negativity with men. We also find that warmer participants, particularly warmer women, are under-rewarded by their groups. Equity Concerns Are Narrowly... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • August 2012
  • Article

Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate

By: Judd B. Kessler and Alvin E. Roth
Organ donations from deceased donors (cadavers) provide the majority of transplanted organs in the United States, and one deceased donor can save numerous lives by providing multiple organs. Nevertheless, most Americans are not registered organ donors despite the... View Details
Keywords: Organ Donation; Health; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Decision Making; Resource Allocation; Mathematical Methods; United States
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Kessler, Judd B., and Alvin E. Roth. "Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate." American Economic Review 102, no. 5 (August 2012): 2018–2047.
  • 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9

http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/2/3/257/pdf Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate Authors:Judd B. Kessler and Alvin E. Roth Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract Organ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Motivated Errors

By: Christine L Exley and Judd B. Kessler
In three sets of experiments involving 5,432 subjects, we show that agents make more errors when doing so allows them to justify selfish behavior. We show that errors relating to addition arise when they can help to justify selfishness but are eliminated when selfish... View Details
Keywords: Information; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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Exley, Christine L., and Judd B. Kessler. "Motivated Errors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-017, August 2019. (Revised March 2022.)
  • August 2022
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The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion

By: Christine L. Exley and Judd B. Kessler
In applications, interviews, performance reviews, and many other environments, individuals are explicitly asked or implicitly invited to assess their own performance. In a series of experiments, we find that women rate their performance less favorably than equally... View Details
Keywords: Self-promotion; Gender Gap; Experiments; Performance Evaluation; Gender
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Exley, Christine L., and Judd B. Kessler. "The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion." Quarterly Journal of Economics 137, no. 3 (August 2022): 1345–1381.
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Equity Concerns Are Narrowly Framed

By: Christine L Exley and Judd B. Kessler
Distributional decisions regularly involve multiple payoff components. In a series of experiments, we show that subjects frequently exhibit narrow equity concerns: individuals apply their fairness preferences narrowly, on a specific component of payoffs, rather... View Details
Keywords: Equity; Equality and Inequality; Fairness; Perception; Outcome or Result; Resource Allocation; Behavior
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Exley, Christine L., and Judd B. Kessler. "Equity Concerns Are Narrowly Framed." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-040, November 2018. (Revised August 2021.)
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Information Avoidance and Image Concerns

By: Christine L. Exley and Judd B. Kessler
A rich literature finds that individuals avoid information, even information that is instrumental to their choices. A common hypothesis posits that individuals strategically avoid information to hold particular beliefs or to take certain actions--such as behaving... View Details
Keywords: Image Motivation; Self-image; Information; Behavior; Identity; Personal Characteristics
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Exley, Christine L., and Judd B. Kessler. "Information Avoidance and Image Concerns." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-080, January 2021.
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