David Laibson

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David Laibson is affiliated with the following schools: London School of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University

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David Laibson

Economics

#219

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#286

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#145

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Behavioral Economics

#12

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#12

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According to Wikipedia, David Isaac Laibson is a professor of economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1994. His research focuses on macroeconomics, intertemporal choice, behavioral economics, and neuroeconomics. In 2016, he became chairman of the Harvard economics department.

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David Laibson's Published Works

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Published Works

Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting (1997) (5714)
Separate Neural Systems Value Immediate and Delayed Monetary Rewards (2004) (2961)
An Economic Approach to Social Capital (2000) (1947)
Redefine statistical significance (2017) (1806)
Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals (2018) (1401)
Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment (2016) (1114)
Time Discounting for Primary Rewards (2007) (904)
The Hyperbolic Consumption Model: Calibration, Simulation, and Empirical Evaluation (2001) (903)
Neuroeconomics : How Neuroscience Can Inform Economics (2003) (882)
GWAS of 126,559 Individuals Identifies Genetic Variants Associated with Educational Attainment (2013) (803)
The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions over the Life Cycle and Implications for Regulation (2009) (746)
Self-Control and Saving for Retirement (1998) (687)
Experienced Utility and Objective Happiness: A Moment-Based Approach (2001) (564)
Costly Information Acquisition: Experimental Analysis of a Boundedly Rational Model (2006) (564)
Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses (2016) (563)
Multi-trait analysis of genome-wide association summary statistics using MTAG (2017) (525)
Intertemporal choice – toward an integrative framework (2007) (500)
Dynamic Choices of Hyperbolic Consumers (2001) (493)
Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences (2019) (421)
Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences (2019) (421)
Individual laboratory-measured discount rates predict field behavior (2008) (415)
Estimating Discount Functions with Consumption Choices Over the Lifecycle (2007) (414)
Using implementation intentions prompts to enhance influenza vaccination rates (2011) (391)
Life-cycle consumption and hyperbolic discount functions (1998) (369)
Defined Contribution Pensions: Plan Rules, Participant Decisions, and the Path of Least Resistance (2002) (367)
A Cue-Theory of Consumption (2001) (345)
Reinforcement Learning and Savings Behavior (2007) (305)
Hyperbolic Discount Functions, Undersaving, and Savings Policy (1996) (286)
The Fourth Law of Behavior Genetics (2015) (283)
Genetic Associations with Subjective Well-Being Also Implicate Depression and Neuroticism (2015) (276)
The 6d Bias and the Equity Premium Puzzle (2001) (265)
Most Reported Genetic Associations With General Intelligence Are Probably False Positives (2012) (262)
Common genetic variants associated with cognitive performance identified using the proxy-phenotype method (2014) (262)
Saving or Retirement on the Path of Least Resistance (2004) (259)
The genetic architecture of economic and political preferences (2012) (256)
Natural Expectations and Macroeconomic Fluctuations. (2010) (248)
Optimal Defaults (2003) (248)
What is Social Capital? the Determinants of Trust and Trustworthiness (1999) (232)
Consumers' misunderstanding of health insurance. (2013) (215)
Learning in the Credit Card Market (2008) (213)
Commentary on “Choice Bracketing” by Read, Loewenstein and Rabin (1999) (209)
Conjunctive Representation of Position, Direction, and Velocity in Entorhinal Cortex (2006) (197)
The Promises and Pitfalls of Genoeconomics* (2012) (187)
Technological Revolutions (2020) (185)
The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Saving Outcomes (2009) (185)
The Matching Law Papers in Psychology and Economics (1997) (159)
Amos Tversky and the Ascent of Behavioral Economics (1998) (158)
Economic Implications of Extraordinary Movements in Stock Prices (1989) (155)
Capital Flows, Consumption Booms and Asset Bubbles: A Behavioural Alternative to the Savings Glut Hypothesis (2010) (146)
How does the Internet affect trading? Evidence from investor behavior in 401(k) plans $ (2002) (139)
Optimal Mortgage Refinancing: A Closed Form Solution (2007) (136)
Natural Expectations, Macroeconomic Dynamics, and Asset Pricing (2011) (134)
The Implications of Hyperbolic Discounting for Project Evaluation (1998) (134)
Mental Accounting in Portfolio Choice: Evidence from a Flypaper Effect (2007) (126)
What is for me is not for you: brain correlates of intertemporal choice for self and other. (2011) (126)
Hyperbolic discounting and consumption (1994) (125)
What Makes Annuitization More Appealing? (2012) (123)
A megastudy of text-based nudges encouraging patients to get vaccinated at an upcoming doctor’s appointment (2021) (118)
How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices? (2009) (114)
Bounded Rationality and Directed Cognition (2005) (109)
Money Earlier or Later? Simple Heuristics Explain Intertemporal Choices Better Than Delay Discounting Does (2015) (107)
Myopia and Discounting (2017) (105)
Why don't present-biased agents make commitments? (2015) (103)
Beyond Willpower: Strategies for Reducing Failures of Self-Control (2018) (102)
Measuring Time Preferences (2016) (101)
Replicability and Robustness of Genome-Wide-Association Studies for Behavioral Traits (2014) (99)
Behavioral Household Finance (2018) (98)
Are Empowerment and Education Enough? Underdiversification in 401(k) Plans (2006) (96)
A Boundedly Rational Decision Algorithm (2000) (94)
The allocation of time in decision-making. (2009) (89)
A Debt Puzzle (2000) (88)
Behavioral Economics Perspectives on Public Sector Pension Plans (2011) (86)
What Goes Up Must Come Down? Experimental Evidence on Intuitive Forecasting. (2013) (82)
Self Control and Liquidity: How to Design a Commitment Contract (2011) (78)
Intertemporal Decision Making (2003) (74)
The impact of competition on prices with numerous firms (2016) (74)
Instantaneous Gratification The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2001) (69)
The Allocation of Attention: Theory and Evidence (2003) (68)
Shrouded Attributes and Information Suppression in Competitive Markets (2004) (65)
Self Control and Commitment: Can Decreasing the Liquidity of a Savings Account Increase Deposits? (2015) (63)
Principles of (Behavioral) Economics (2015) (60)
Why it is hard to find genes associated with social science traits: theoretical and empirical considerations. (2013) (58)
Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison (2015) (56)
Does Aggregated Returns Disclosure Increase Portfolio Risk-Taking? (2011) (55)
$100 Bills on the Sidewalk: Suboptimal Saving in 401(k) Plans (2005) (55)
Planning prompts as a means of increasing preventive screening rates. (2013) (55)
Intertemporal Choice (2018) (52)
The Seven Properties of Good Models (2008) (51)
Equalizing Superstars: The Internet and the Democratization of Education (2014) (51)
The Limitations of Defaults (2010) (51)
Problems with Using Polygenic Scores to Select Embryos. (2021) (50)
Does the Internet Increase Trading? Evidence from Investor Behavior in 401(K) Plans (2000) (50)
The 6D Bias and the Equity-Premium Puzzle (2001) (49)
Resource profile and user guide of the Polygenic Index Repository (2021) (48)
Safety in Markets: An Impossibility Theorem for Dutch Books (2007) (42)
Cognitive function is associated with risk aversion in community-based older persons (2011) (41)
Measuring Intertemporal Preferences Using Response Times (2008) (40)
Following Through on Good Intentions: The Power of Planning Prompts (2012) (40)
Competition and Consumer Confusion (2004) (39)
MTAG: Multi-Trait Analysis of GWAS (2017) (38)
Does Front-Loading Taxation Increase Savings? Evidence from Roth 401(K) Introductions (2014) (38)
Borrowing to Save? The Impact of Automatic Enrollment on Debt (2019) (36)
Which Early Withdrawal Penalty Attracts the Most Deposits to a Commitment Savings Account? (2020) (33)
The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Saving Outcomes: Evidence from the USA* (2007) (33)
Extreme Value Theory and the Effects of Competition on Profits (2005) (32)
Public Policy and Saving for Retirement: The "Autosave" Features of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (2010) (31)
Estimating Discount Functions from Lifecycle Consumption Choices (2004) (31)
How Malleable are Risk Preferences and Loss Aversion? (2012) (31)
Association of cognition with temporal discounting in community based older persons (2012) (29)
Investment Dynamics with Natural Expectations. (2010) (29)
[Spendthrift in America? On Two Decades of Decline in the U.S. Saving Rate]: Comment (1999) (27)
Who Is Easier to Nudge (2016) (27)
Pension Design and Structure New Lessons from Behavioral Finance (2004) (26)
Private Paternalism, the Commitment Puzzle, and Model-Free Equilibrium† (2018) (26)
A Mega-Study of Text-Based Nudges Encouraging Patients to Get Vaccinated at an Upcoming Doctor’s Appointment (2021) (24)
Handbook of Behavioral Economics - Foundations and Applications 2, Volume 2 (2018) (23)
Good Policies for Bad Governments: Behavioral Political Economy (2003) (23)
Multi-trait analysis of genome-wide association summary statistics using MTAG (2018) (22)
Corrigendum: Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses (2016) (22)
Inertia and Overwithholding : Explaining the Prevalence of Income Tax Refunds (2011) (21)
Genome-wide study identifies 611 loci associated with risk tolerance and risky behaviors (2018) (21)
Present Bias Amplifies the Household Balance-Sheet Channels of Macroeconomic Policy (2021) (20)
Optimal Illiquidity (2020) (20)
Default Stickiness among Low-Income Individuals (2012) (18)
Active choice, implicit defaults, and the incentive to choose. (2019) (18)
$100 Bills on the Sidewalk: Violations of No-Arbitrage in 401(k) Accounts (2012) (18)
Asset Bubbles and the Cost of Economic Fluctuations (2011) (17)
Should We Tax Soda? An Overview of Theory and Evidence (2018) (16)
Vaccination Rates are Associated With Functional Proximity But Not Base Proximity of Vaccination Clinics (2016) (15)
Planning Prompts as a Means of Increasing Rates of Immunization and Preventive Screening (2012) (14)
When Should Borrowers Refinance Their Mortgages (2002) (14)
A commitment contract to achieve virologic suppression in poorly adherent patients with HIV/AIDS (2017) (14)
Multi-Ancestry Meta-Analysis yields novel genetic discoveries and ancestry-specific associations (2021) (14)
Measuring and controlling for the compromise effect when estimating risk preference parameters (2019) (14)
Wealth Accumulation, Credit Card Borrowing, and Consuption-Income Comovement (2003) (13)
Biosocial Surveys Committee on Advances in Collecting and Utilizing Biological Indicators and Genetic Information in Social Science Surveys (2008) (13)
The Availability and Utilization of 401(K) Loans (2011) (13)
The Public-Housing Allocation Problem : Theory and Evidence from Pittsburgh (2016) (12)
Consumption-Wealth Comovement of the Wrong Sign (2004) (12)
Building Emergency Savings through Employer-Sponsored Rainy-Day Savings Accounts (2019) (11)
Who Uses the Roth 401(K), and How Do They Use it? (2013) (11)
Controlling for the Compromise Effect Debiases Estimates of Risk Preference Parameters (2015) (11)
Predicting mid-life capital formation with pre-school delay of gratification and life-course measures of self-regulation ☆ (2019) (11)
Impatience and Savings (2005) (11)
Paternalism and Pseudo-Rationality (2017) (10)
A New Challenge for Economics: 'The Frame Problem' (2003) (10)
Houses as ATMs? Mortgage Renancing and Macroeconomic Uncertainty (2014) (9)
Optimal Illiquidity in the Retirement Savings System (2014) (7)
Hyperbolic Discounting, Wealth Accumulation, and Consumption (2000) (7)
Testimonials do not convert patients from brand to generic medication. (2013) (6)
An economic perspective on addiction and matching (1996) (5)
Optimal Mortgage Refinancing: A Closed-Form (2013) (5)
Controlling for Compromise Effects Debiases Estimates of Preference Parameters (2015) (4)
Erratum: Common genetic variants associated with cognitive performance identified using the proxy-phenotype method (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (2014) 111 (13790-13794) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404623111) (2015) (4)
The Flypaper Effect in Individual Investor Asset Allocation (2007) (4)
Publisher Correction: Multi-trait analysis of genome-wide association summary statistics using MTAG (2019) (4)
Do physician incentives increase patient medication adherence? (2020) (3)
Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems (2015) (3)
Large-scale genetic study of risk tolerance and risky behaviors identifies new loci and reveals shared genetic influences (2017) (3)
The Impact of a Roth Option on Outcomes in Employer-Sponsored Savings Plans (2012) (3)
Self Control and Liquidity (2011) (3)
What makes annuitization more appealing? (2013) (3)
Optimal Mortgage Reï¬ nancing: A Closed Form Solution (2012) (3)
BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS IN THE CLASSROOM Principles of ( Behavioral ) Economics (2015) (3)
Do Nudges Reduce Borrowing and Consumer Confusion in the Credit Card Market? (2022) (3)
The Impact of 401(k) Loans on Saving (2010) (3)
Three Price Anomalies in the Used Car Market (2002) (3)
Defined Contribution Savings Plans in the Public Sector: Lessons from Behavioral Economics (2010) (2)
Retirement Saving: Helping Employees Help Themselves (2006) (2)
Comment on "Family Status Transitions, Latent Health, and the Post-Retirement Evolution of Assets" (2011) (2)
The Psychology of Savings and Investment (2008) (2)
A Randomized Trial of Behavioral Nudges Delivered Through Text Messages to Increase Influenza Vaccination Among Patients With an Upcoming Primary Care Visit (2022) (2)
Decision-Making, Intertemporal (2006) (2)
WHAT IS THE AGE OF REASON (2009) (1)
Economic Consequences of Mispredicting Utility (2013) (1)
An Economic Approach to Social Capital Author ( s ) : (2017) (1)
The Evolution of 401(k) Balances Under Automatic Enrollment (2015) (1)
OPTIMAL DEFAULTS AND ACTIVE DECISIONS Online Appendix (2008) (1)
Paternalism and pseudo-rationality: An illustration based on retirement savings (2022) (1)
CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting (2004) (1)
Active Choice, Implicit Defaults, and the Incentive to Choose (2019) (1)
MTAG: multi-trait analysis of GWAS implicates novel loci for depressive symptoms, neuroticism, and subjective well-being (2017) (1)
Chapter 4 Other-Regarding Preferences : A Selective Survey of Experimental Results 217 (2020) (1)
Author ' s personal copy Neuroeconomics Intertemporal choice – toward an integrative framework (2007) (0)
Amplification of Uncertainty in Illiquid Markets ∗ ( JOB MARKET PAPER ) Elias (2009) (0)
Shrouded Attributes and the Curse of Educatoin (2004) (0)
Number 1920 Legal Origins (2001) (0)
What Makes Annuitization More Appealing? article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2013) (0)
Editors' Summary (2010) (0)
EBOOK : Economics, 1st edition (2015) (0)
A Cue-Theory of Consumption The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2009) (0)
1 Title : Redefine Statistical Significance (2017) (0)
Examining the shared genetic architecture of risk tolerance and related behaviors (2017) (0)
Reinforcement Learning in Investment Behavior (2007) (0)
DESIGNING AND FRAMING ANNUITIES (2013) (0)
Correction: Corrigendum: Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses (2016) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES NOMINAL WAGE RIGIDITY IN VILLAGE LABOR MARKETS (2014) (0)
Self Control and Commitment : Can Decreasing the Liquidity of a Savings Account Increase Deposits ? Faculty Research Working Paper Series (2015) (0)
Does Front-Loading Taxation Increase Savings? (2017) (0)
Theory Notes to Accompany Active Decisions (2003) (0)
The 15th Annual RAND Summer Institute Video (2009) (0)
AN E CONOMIC A PPROACH T O S OCIAL C APITAL (2002) (0)
Investigations in the Economics of Aging: Comment on "Were They Prepared for Retirement? Financial Status at Advanced Ages in the HRS and AHEAD Cohorts" (2011) (0)
One Step at a Time : Does Gradualism Foster Group Coordination ? (2013) (0)
Neural differences in decision making for self and other (2007) (0)
Correction (2010) (0)
Public views on polygenic screening of embryos (2023) (0)
Does Pension Relieve Depression ? Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the Pension Eligibility (2015) (0)
Power Laws and the Mega-Idiosyncratic Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations Xavier (2004) (0)
When Should Borrowers Re fi nance Their Mortgages ? Sumit Agarwal FleetBoston Financial (2002) (0)
WhyItIsHardtoFindGenesAssociatedWithSocialScience Traits:TheoreticalandEmpiricalConsiderations (2013) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES LONG-RUN EFFECTS OF LOTTERY WEALTH ON PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING (2018) (0)

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