Matthew Rabin
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- PhD Economics Princeton University
- Bachelors Mathematics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Matthew Joel Rabin is the Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics in the Harvard Economics Department and Harvard Business School. Rabin's research focuses primarily on incorporating psychologically more realistic assumptions into empirically applicable formal economic theory. His topics of interest include errors in statistical reasoning and the evolution of beliefs, effects of choice context on exhibited preferences, reference-dependent preferences, and errors people make in inference in market and learning settings.
Matthew Rabin's Published Works
Published Works
- Incorporating Fairness into Game Theory and Economics (1993) (5152)
- Doing It Now or Later (1999) (3190)
- A Model of Reference-Dependent Preferences (2006) (2713)
- UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL PREFERENCES WITH SIMPLE TESTS (2001) (2498)
- Risk Aversion and Expected Utility Theory: A Calibration Theorem (2000) (1829)
- Understanding Social Preference with Simple Tests (2001) (1596)
- Psychology and Economics (1997) (1499)
- Regulation for Conservatives: Behavioral Economics and the Case for 'Asymmetric Paternalism' (2003) (1142)
- Projection Bias in Predicting Future Utility (2000) (1120)
- First Impressions Matter: A Model of Confirmatory Bias (1999) (964)
- Reference-Dependent Risk Attitudes (2007) (926)
- Choice and Procrastination (2000) (923)
- Neuroeconomics : How Neuroscience Can Inform Economics (2003) (882)
- Anomalies: Risk Aversion (2001) (857)
- Advances in behavioral economics (2004) (852)
- Inference by Believers in the Law of Small Numbers (2000) (631)
- A Perspective on Psychology and Economics (2002) (583)
- Choice Bracketing (1999) (577)
- Reference-Dependent Consumption Plans (2009) (527)
- Optimal Sin Taxes (2006) (515)
- Cursed Equilibrium (2000) (433)
- Studying Optimal Paternalism, Illustrated by a Model of Sin Taxes (2003) (425)
- Incentives for Procrastinators (1999) (413)
- Loss aversion in a consumption/savings model (1999) (400)
- The economics of immediate gratification (2000) (373)
- The Gambler's and Hot-Hand Fallacies: Theory and Applications (2007) (299)
- Narrow Bracketing and Dominated Choices (2007) (252)
- Cognitive Dissonance and Social Change (1994) (252)
- Naïve Herding in Rich-Information Settings (2010) (202)
- Social preferences: Some simple tests and a new model (2000) (190)
- Procrastination in Preparing for Retirement (1998) (182)
- Present Bias: Lessons Learned and To Be Learned† (2015) (166)
- Communication between Rational Agents (1990) (164)
- Risky Behavior among Youths: Some Issues from Behavioral Economics (2000) (155)
- Choices, situations, and happiness (2008) (153)
- Incorporating Fairness into Game Theory (1991) (149)
- Addiction and self-control (1999) (144)
- Diminishing Marginal Utility of Wealth Cannot Explain Risk Aversion (2000) (140)
- A Model of Pre-game Communication (1991) (130)
- Incorporating Limited Rationality into Economics (2013) (128)
- Moral Preferences, Moral Constraints, and Self-Serving Biases (1995) (117)
- An Experiment on Time Preference and Misprediction in Unpleasant Tasks (2019) (111)
- Financial Markets Where Traders Neglect the Informational Content of Prices (2015) (108)
- Expressed Preferences and Behavior in Experimental Games (2004) (107)
- An Approach to Incorporating Psychology into Economics (2013) (104)
- Mistakes in Choice-Based Welfare Analysis (2007) (103)
- Evidence from the Field (2004) (95)
- Extensive Imitation is Irrational and Harmful (2014) (87)
- Risky Behavior among Youths: Some Issues from Behavioral Economics (2000) (86)
- Self-awareness and self-control (2003) (85)
- Addiction and Present-Biased Preferences (2002) (84)
- Procrastination on Long-Term Projects (2002) (77)
- A Model of Relative Thinking (2020) (70)
- Revealed Mistakes and Revealed Preferences (2008) (68)
- A MODEL OF NONBELIEF IN THE LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS. (2016) (58)
- Conclusions Regarding Cross-Group Differences in Happiness Depend on Difficulty of Reaching Respondents. (2013) (58)
- Incentives and Self Control (2006) (51)
- A Model of Non-Belief in the Law of Large Numbers (2012) (47)
- Channeled Attention and Stable Errors (2018) (44)
- An Experiment on Social Mislearning (2015) (40)
- Deviations, Dynamics and Equilibrium Refinements (1993) (34)
- Information and the Control of Productive Assets (1991) (25)
- Congested observational learning (2014) (25)
- Trends in British health inequality, 1931-83 (1986) (25)
- Belief Movement, Uncertainty Reduction, and Rational Updating* (2021) (24)
- The Nobel Memorial Prize for Daniel Kahneman (2003) (24)
- Base-Rate Neglect : Foundations and Implications ∗ (2019) (23)
- Expectations-Based Loss Aversion May Help Explain Seemingly Dominated Choices in Strategy-Proof Mechanisms (2019) (23)
- The Experimental Study of Social Preferences (2014) (23)
- Incorporating Behavioral Assumptions into Game Theory (1992) (23)
- Healthy habits: some thoughts on the role of public policy in healthful eating and exercise under limited rationality (2013) (22)
- Habit Formation and Naivet e in Gym Attendance: Evidence from a Field Experiment (2010) (19)
- Biased Beliefs About Random Samples: Evidence from Two Integrated Experiments (2017) (18)
- Rational and Naive Herding (2009) (17)
- Response [Anomalies: Risk Aversion] (2002) (17)
- The Gambler's and Hot-Hand Fallacies In a Dynamic-Inference Model (2005) (17)
- Loss Aversion in a Savings Model (1993) (13)
- Bargaining Structure, Fairness and Efficiency (1997) (13)
- Fairness in Repeated Games (1997) (13)
- Some Simple Tests of Social Preferences (2000) (12)
- Loss Aversion in a Consumption (1994) (12)
- The Public-Housing Allocation Problem : Theory and Evidence from Pittsburgh (2016) (12)
- Risk Aversion, Diminishing Marginal Utility, and Expected-Utility Theory: A Calibration Theorem (1997) (10)
- Focal Points in Pre-Game Communication (1991) (10)
- Belief Movement , Uncertainty Reduction , & Rational Updating ∗ (2017) (10)
- Rational Observational Learning (2011) (9)
- Misconceptions of Chance : Evidence from an Integrated Experiment (2012) (8)
- NEW FRONTIERS IN ECONOMICS (2004) (5)
- Addiction and Present-Biased Preferences - eScholarship (2002) (5)
- Reneging and Renegotiating (1991) (4)
- Biased beliefs about random samples (2013) (3)
- New Frontiers in Economics: Behavioral Economics (2004) (3)
- Tailored Stories (2022) (2)
- Discussion of “BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS” “Behavioral Economics ” (Collin Camerer) and “Incentives and Self-control ” (Matthew Rabin) To appear in Advances in Economics and Econometrics Theory and Applications, Ninth World Congress (2005) (2)
- Bargaining Structure, Fairness and Efficiency - eScholarship (1997) (2)
- CHAPTER TEN. Incorporating Fairness into Game Theory and Economics (2004) (2)
- American Economic Association Incorporating Fairness into Game Theory and Economics (2007) (2)
- Incentives and Self Control for Helpful Comments, We Thank (2005) (2)
- The Construction of Preference: Choice Bracketing (2006) (1)
- No . E 04-337 A Model of Reference-Dependent Preferences (2002) (1)
- Naive Herding VERY PRELIMINARY AND INCOMPLETE VERSION FOR JERUSALEM AND TEL AVIV SEMINARS ONLY (2008) (1)
- Narrow Bracketing and Dominated Choices 1 (2007) (1)
- Fretting about Modest Risks Is a Mistake (2019) (1)
- The Limits to Imitation in Rational Observational Learning ∗ (2012) (1)
- Incorporating Behaviroal Assumptions Into Game Theory - eScholarship (1992) (0)
- Naive Herding ( PRELIMNARY VERSION FOR UCL CONFERENCE ) (2008) (0)
- No 1024 November 2010 Do Matching Frictions Explain Unemployment ? Not in Bad Times (2010) (0)
- Estimating perceptions of the relative COVID risk of different social-distancing behaviors from respondents’ pairwise assessments (2022) (0)
- IZA DP No . 3040 Narrow Bracketing and Dominated Choices (2007) (0)
- The Integrated Graduate Education and Training Program in Politics, Economics, Psychology and Public Policy (2005) (0)
- Preliminary Draft — Comments Appreciated Reference-Dependent Risk Attitudes (2005) (0)
- Choice and Procrastination Author ( s ) : (2008) (0)
- Returns to scale in the generation map of repeated games (0)
- Discussion Paper Series Congested Observational Learning (2012) (0)
- Extensive imitation is irrational and harmful Working paper (2013) (0)
- Taxability and the Social Contract (2003) (0)
- Quarterly Journal of Economics a Model of Reference-dependent Preferences* (2006) (0)
- Focal Points in Pre-Game Communication - eScholarship (1991) (0)
- Appendices to “ An Experiment on Social Mislearning ” (2015) (0)
- THE “ NEW ” PATERNALISM IN CONSUMER CREDIT REGULATION : WHEN , WHY , AND HOW ? (2018) (0)
- Finding Nash and Earning Cash : Applications of Iterated Dominance to Reporting GPAs on Resumes (2016) (0)
- Conclusions Regarding Cross-Group Differences in Happiness Depend on Difficulty of Reaching Respondents (2013) (0)
- Local need overrides budget constraints, CON delays for SNF. (1990) (0)
- A Model of Relative Thinking PRELIMINARY : COMMENTS APPRECIATED (2014) (0)
- Forthcoming , European Economic Review A Perspective on Psychology and Economics (2001) (0)
- Post-occupancy audits: expectations vs. reality. (1991) (0)
- Preliminary Draft Prepared for Conference Circulation on June 15-16 , 2006 Dynamic Reference-Dependent Preferences 1 (2006) (0)
- Hyperbolic Discounting and Consumer Purchases of Storable Goods (2008) (0)
- Sloan and Russell Sage Foundations for Financial Support (1997) (0)
- READ , LOEWENSTEIN AND RABIN (0)
- Inferential Errors in Financial Markets (AFA Lecture) (2012) (0)
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