Behavioral Public Economics

Bernheim, B. Douglas; Taubinsky, Dmitry

doi:10.3386/w24828

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“…Consumers may face problems of self-control and time-inconsistency and thus might underweight the future health costs of consumption of unhealthy foods relative to how they would like, in the future, to have weighted those costs. There are different points of view on whether policymakers should respect consumers' 'long-run' or 'short-run' preferences (see, for example, discussion in Bernheim and Rangel (2009) and Bernheim and Taubinsky (2018)). A social planner who uses the long-run criterion for welfare analysis might want to help people implement their long-run preferences by reducing consumption of unhealthy foods.…”

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The costs of obesity

Griffith

2023

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Section: Social Costs Are What Matter For Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

The costs of obesity

Griffith

2023

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“…The recent 1797-page book by Dhami (2016) is a tour de force of behavioral economic concepts and associated findings. For the more faint-hearted but equally interested readers there are the excellent two companion pieces by DellaVigna (2018) and Bernheim and Taubinsky (2018) that summarize the field's current state of knowledge.…”

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Behavioral economics and the value of a statistical life

Kniesner

2019

J Risk Uncertain

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“…While characterizing heterogeneous misperceptions is crucial for policy design, it is challenging to do in practice. The researcher needs: 1) a rich description of consumer behavior in the "naturally occurring" environment, where they make mistakes, 2) a rich description of consumer behavior in the "welfare-relevant" environment, where they do not make mistakes, and 3) the mapping between them (Bernheim and Taubinsky 2018). Previous work has relied on two approaches to measure misperceptions.…”

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