These are 2008 AEA Conference Papers; please see also the full 2008 ASSA Preliminary Program Schedule.
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Richard Thaler (University of Chicago)

Sunday, January 6, 10:15 AM

Sunday, January 6, 10:15 AM
Session: The Behavioral Economics of Choice and the Shaping of Policy (AEA)
Presiding: Jeffrey Kling (Brookings Institution)

Nudging 401(K) Participants Towards Better Choices
Shlomo Benartzi (University of California, Los Angeles)
Richard Thaler (University of Chicago)

Effects of Public Policies on the Disposition of Pre-Retirement Lump-Sum Distributions: Rational and Behavioral Influences
William Gale (Brookings Institution)
Len Burman (Urban Institute)
Norma Coe (Tilburg University)
Misha Dworsky (Stanford University)
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Harnessing Market Forces not Market Complexity
Jeffrey Kling (Brookings Institution)
Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University)
Eldar Shafir (Princeton University)

Sunday, January 6, 12:30 PM

Sunday, January 6, 12:30 PM
Session: Studying Risk Preferences in Natural and Lab Experiments: The Case of Deal or No Deal (AEA)
Presiding: Jungmin Lee (University of Arkansas-Fayetteville and IZA)

Dynamic Choice Behavior: International Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Glenn Harrison (University of Central Florida)
Steffen Anderson (Centre for Economic and Business Research, Denmark)
Anabela Botelho (University of Minho and NIMA, Portugal)
Morten Lay (Durham University, UK)
Elisabet Rutstrom (University of Central Florida)

Is a Dollar in the Hand Worth Two in a Lottery? Risk Aversion and Prospect Theory in Deal or No Deal
Daniel Mulino (Monash University, Australia)
Richard Scheelings (Monash University, Australia)
Robert Brooks (Monash University, Australia)
Robert Faff (Monash University, Australia)

Deal or No Deal? Decision Making under Risk in a Large-Payoff Game Show
Theirry Post (Erasmus University, The Netherlands)
Martijn Van Den Assem (Erasmus University, The Netherlands)
Guido Baltussen (Erasmus University, The Netherlands)
Richard Thaler (University of Chicago)

Risk Aversion beyond Individual Decisions: An Extension of Deal or No Deal
Cary Deck (University of Arkansas-Fayetteville)
Jungmin Lee (University of Arkansas-Fayetteville and IZA, Germany)
Javier Reyes (University of Arkansas-Fayetteville)


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