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From:Information Systems Research (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedApplying behavioral economic theories, we hypothesize that consumers have sticky reference prices for individual information goods, but their perceived value for customizable bundle offers can be significantly...
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From:Washington University Journal of Law & Policy (Vol. 35)"[T]he tests-and-standards movement.., ha[s] been loaded with a coarse utilitarian toxicity and a demeaning anti-human view of childhood right from the start." --Jonathan Kozol (1) I. INTRODUCTION: COMMODIFICATION...
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From:Contemporary Economic Policy (Vol. 25, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedRecent research shows that the dramatic rise in obesity in the United States is due more to the overconsumption of unhealthy foods than underactivity. This study tests for an addiction to food nutrients as a potential...
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From:Administrative Law Review (Vol. 68, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn recent years, there has been a great deal of debate about the ethical questions associated with "nudges," understood as approaches that steer people in certain directions while maintaining their freedom of choice....
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From:National Tax Journal (Vol. 63, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis paper provides an analytical framework for evaluating the effects of individual health insurance mandates on coverage. That framework draws from three literatures--health economics, tax compliance, and behavioral...
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From:Law and Contemporary Problems (Vol. 74, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI INTRODUCTION What does the law mean to the common person? Such a broad question could be answered in more than one way, depending on one's vantage point, disciplinary background, and so forth. From an...
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From:The Psychological Record (Vol. 67, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDespite the growing opioid epidemic in the US, few studies have identified theoretically based risk factors for non-medical prescription opioid (NMPO) use among young adults. The goal of the current study was to...
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From:Management Science (Vol. 60, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPrice delegation to the salesforce is a practice widely adopted by firms. This paper examines the relationship between price delegation and managerial profits using a laboratory economics experiment. A novel feature of...
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From:Case Western Reserve Law Review (Vol. 69, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION Attorney Timothy Muir served as inside general counsel, and later outside counsel, for Scott Tucker's payday loan business. (1) Tucker's payday loan enterprise, which did business under various names,...
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From:University of Pennsylvania Law Review (Vol. 163, Issue 5)Since the 2008 financial crisis, consumer regulators have closely supervised sellers of credit cards and home mortgages to stamp out anticompetitive practices. Supervision programs give financial regulators ongoing...
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From:Marketing Science (Vol. 31, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed
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From:Management Science (Vol. 59, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAlmost all jobs require a combination of cognitive effort and labor effort. This paper focuses on the effect that competitive incentive schemes have on the chosen combination of these two types of efforts. We use an...
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From:Yale Law Journal (Vol. 122, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedA growing body of evidence demonstrates that in some contexts and for identifiable reasons, people make choices that are not in their interest, even when the stakes are high. Policymakers in a number of nations,...
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From:International Journal of Sport Finance (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Despite the prominence and relevance of the uncertainty-of-outcome hypothesis (UOH) for professional sports worldwide, decades of empirical research have not been successful in establishing clear evidence...
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From:Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Vol. 99, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis Article develops both a framework for a theory of desistance from crime and an analytical strategy with which to examine desistance. With respect to the former, an identity theory of the desistance from crime that...
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From:Business Economics (Vol. 54, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This brief essay offers a general introduction to the idea of nudging, along with a list of ten of the most important "nudges." It also provides a short discussion of the question whether to create a separate...
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From:Regulation (Vol. 35, Issue 2)Obesity, often defined as having a body mass index 20 percent or more above what is considered "healthy" for a person's height, has recently become our nation's public health obsession. Obesity prevalence in 2007-2008...
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From:International Journal of Sport Finance (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedKickers in the NFL have two jobs. The first is kicking off. The second is scoring via field goal attempts and extra points. Of these two actions, the latter's impact on outcomes is most easily observed. Decision-makers...
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From:William and Mary Law Review (Vol. 49, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Recent work at the intersection of law and behavioral biology has suggested numerous contexts in which legal thinking could benefit by integrating knowledge from behavioral biology. In one of those contexts,...
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From:William and Mary Law Review (Vol. 51, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Much employment discrimination law is premised on a purely money-focused "reasonable" employee, the sort who can be made whole with damages equal to lost wages, and who does not hesitate to challenge...