This chapter offers a comprehensive survey of the economic analysis of advertising. A first
objective is to organize the literature in a manner that clarifies what is known. A second …

We review the recent evidence on commitment devices and discuss how this evidence
relates to theoretical questions about the demand for, and effectiveness of, commitment …

Many have argued that digital technologies such as smartphones and social media are
addictive. We develop an economic model of digital addiction and estimate it using a …

Socially responsible behavior is crucial for slowing the spread of infectious diseases.
However, economic and epidemiological models of disease transmission abstract from …

A common objection to “sin taxes”—corrective taxes on goods that are thought to be
overconsumed, such as cigarettes, alcohol, and sugary drinks—is that they often fall …

We review research that measures time preferences—ie, preferences over intertemporal
trade—offs. We distinguish between studies using financial flows, which we call “money …

We document three remarkable features of the Opower program, in which social comparison-
based home energy reports are repeatedly mailed to more than six million households …

We apply a machine learning technique to characterize habit formation in two large panel
data sets with objective measures of 1) gym attendance (over 12 million observations) and …

First we discuss how extrinsic incentives may come into conflict with other motivations. For
example, monetary incentives from principals may change how tasks are perceived by …

Conventional economic policy focuses on 'economic'solutions (eg taxes, incentives,
regulation) to problems caused by market-level factors such as externalities, misaligned …