Beyond Revealed Preference: Choice Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics

By B. Douglas Bernheim, Rangle Antonio. 2008

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Locus of control and the labor market (2015, positive): “In particular, behavioral models generally break the tight correspondence between choice and welfare that has guided normative welfare analysis for more than 50 years (Bernheim and Rangel 2009).”
Complex Tax Incentives: An Experimental Investigation (2013, positive): “Our experimental design is further motivated by the choice-theoretic framework for welfare analysis for nonstandard decision-makers developed in Bernheim and Rangel (2009). The”
Tax Compliance and Enforcement in the Pampas: Evidence from a Field Experiment (2013, background): “This literature also suggests that, in the presence of taxpayers with limited attention, raising the salience of fines and legal actions in the case of noncompliance might affect individual behavior with respect to tax payments (Bernheim and Rangel, 2007, 2009).”
Impatience, Incentives and Obesity (2015, neutral): “Bernheim and Rangel (2009), propose a di¤erent set of welfare criteria and do not nd that present bias justies policy intervention in all cases.”
One swallow doesn’t make a summer: new evidence on anchoring effects (2014, background): “Likewis, Bernheim and Rangel (2007, 2009) use the results as motivating evidence for proposing modifications of the traditional, revealed-preference based welfar analysis.”
Stochastic Choice and Consideration Sets (2012, background): “General frameworks to study welfare in a bounded rationality context are those of Sugden [45], Bernheim and Rangel [4] and Rubinstein and Salant [41].”
Preference purification and the inner rational agent: a critique of the conventional wisdom of behavioural welfare economics (2016, positive): “Bernheim and Rangel (2007, 2009) propose an approach to behavioural welfare economics that is similar to preference purification.”
Information Gaps: A Theory of Preferences Regarding the Presence and Absence of Information (2018, background): “1 Just as psychology has moved beyond behaviorism and embraced cognition, economics also has much to gain by acknowledging the inner workings of the mind (Bernheim & Rangel, 2009; Chater, 2015; Kimball, 2015).”
Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence (2008, methodology): “Introducing a set of other demand-shifters Xjt and an error term "jt to capture idiosyncratic state-specic demand shocks, we obtain the following estimating equation by rst-di¤erencing (5):”