The Welfare Effects of Misperceived Product Costs: Data and Calibrations from the Automobile Market

By Hunt Allcott. 2013

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Making the implicit explicit: A look inside the implicit discount rate (2016, background): “As a consequence, individuals may rationally decide to only update their information irregularly (Allcott, 2013; Reis, 2006).”
Regressive Sin Taxes, with an Application to the Optimal Soda Tax* (2019, background): “, O’Donoghue and Rabin (2006), Gruber and Kőszegi (2001), Allcott, Mullainathan, and Taubinsky (2014), Allcott and Taubinsky (2015), Heutel (2015), Tsvetanov and Segerson (2013), and Mullainathan, Schwartzstein, and Congdon (2012).”
Does Better Information Lead to Better Choices? Evidence from Energy-Efficiency Labels (2016, methodology): “This platform has been widely used by economists (see, e.g., Allcott 2013; Newell and Siikamaki 2014; Allcott and Taubinsky 2015).”
Willingness-to-Pay for Alternative Fuel Vehicle Characteristics: A Stated Choice Study for Germany (2014, background): “Non-monetary governmental incentives are again only appreciated by mileage, or commensurate interest rates for credit-financed vehicle purchases (e.g. Helfand and Wolverton, 2011; Allcot and Wozny 2012; Busse et al., 2013; Allcott, 2013; Gillingham et al., 2014).”
From Fog to Smog: the Value of Pollution Information (2019, background): “…such as food nutritional contents (Bollinger, Leslie and Sorensen, 2011), insurance policy costs (Kling et al., 2012), vehicle fuel economy (Allcott, 2013), retirement savings (Bernheim, Fradkin and Popov, 2015), taxation (Chetty, Looney and Kroft, 2009), and energy prices (Shin, 1985;…”
Bridging the Energy Efficiency Gap: Policy Insights from Economic Theory and Empirical Evidence (2014, unknown): “Products that appear financially attractive for the average consumer may not be attractive for some consumers because of differences in preferences, expected use of the product, and the cost of borrowing (Allcott and Greenstone 2012; Golove and Eto 1996).”
Designing Information Provision Experiments (2020, background): “Finally, a literature in behavioral public economics has studied how misperceptions regarding the fuel economy affect consumers’ purchasing decisions (Allcott, 2013; Allcott and Knittel, 2019; Allcott and Taubinsky, 2015).”