This paper provides a literature review of methods and modeling techniques to estimate the cost of power system outages, along with the value of outage mitigation or system resilience …
M Wiswall, B Zafar - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We use a hypothetical choice methodology to estimate preferences for workplace attributes from a sample of high-ability undergraduates attending a highly selective university. We …
M Wiswall, B Zafar - The Review of Economic Studies, 2015 - academic.oup.com
This article studies the determinants of college major choice using an experimentally generated panel of beliefs, obtained by providing students with information on the true …
R Stinebrickner, TR Stinebrickner - Review of Economic Studies, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Taking advantage of unique longitudinal data, we provide the first characterization of what college students believe at the time of entrance about their final major, relate these beliefs to …
The choice of a college major plays a critical role in determining the future earnings of college graduates. Students make their college major decisions in part due to the future …
This paper explores methodological issues surrounding the use of discrete choice experiments to elicit values for public goods. We develop an explicit game theoretic model of …
Older wealth holders spend down assets much more slowly than predicted by classic life- cycle models. This paper introduces health-dependent utility into a model with incomplete …
Economists commonly suppose that persons have probabilistic expectations for uncertain events, yet empirical research measuring expectations was long rare. The inhibition against …
M Ben-Akiva, D McFadden, K Train - Foundations and Trends® …, 2019 - nowpublishers.com
Stated preference elicitation methods collect data on consumers by" just asking" about tastes, perceptions, valuations, attitudes, motivations, life satisfactions, and/or intended …