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What Do You Think Would Make You Happier? What Do You Think You Would Choose?

American Economic Review, 102(5): 2083–2110, Johnson School Research Paper Series No. 32-2011

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 28 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2013

Daniel J. Benjamin, Daniel J. Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball and Alex Rees-Jones

Anderson School of ManagementUSC, Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, University of Colorado Boulder and Cornell University - Department of Economics

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Loss Aversion Motivates Tax Sheltering: Evidence from U.S. Tax Returns

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 27 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2014

Alex Rees-Jones

Cornell University - Department of Economics

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Can Marginal Rates of Substitution Be Inferred from Happiness Data? Evidence from Residency Choices

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Can Marginal Rates of Substitution Be Inferred from Happiness Data? Evidence from Residency Choices

American Economic Review, Forthcoming, Johnson School Research Paper Series No. 8-2013

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 21 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2014

Daniel J. Benjamin, Daniel J. Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball and Alex Rees-Jones

Anderson School of ManagementUSC, Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, University of Colorado Boulder and Cornell University - Department of Economics

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Can Marginal Rates of Substitution Be Inferred from Happiness Data? Evidence from Residency Choices

NBER Working Paper No. w18927

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 30 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2021

Daniel J. Benjamin, Daniel J. Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball and Alex Rees-Jones

Anderson School of ManagementUSC, Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, University of Colorado Boulder and Cornell University - Department of Economics

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Correlation Neglect in Student-to-School Matching

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Correlation Neglect in Student-to-School Matching

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 13 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2020

Alex Rees-Jones, Ran I. Shorrer and Chloe Tergiman

Cornell University - Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University and The Pennsylvania State University

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Correlation Neglect in Student-to-School Matching

NBER Working Paper No. w26734

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 11 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2021

Alex Rees-Jones, Ran I. Shorrer and Chloe Tergiman

Cornell University - Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University and The Pennsylvania State University

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Price Isn’t Everything: Behavioral Response around Changes in Sin Taxes

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 30 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2020

Alex Rees-Jones and Kyle Rozema

Cornell University - Department of Economics and Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law

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Suboptimal Behavior in Strategy-Proof Mechanisms: Evidence from the Residency Match

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 18 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 31 May 2017

Alex Rees-Jones

Cornell University - Department of Economics

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Do People Seek to Maximize Happiness? Evidence from New Surveys

NBER Working Paper No. w16489

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 25 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2021

Daniel J. Benjamin, Daniel J. Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball and Alex Rees-Jones

Anderson School of ManagementUSC, Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, University of Colorado Boulder and Cornell University - Department of Economics

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Learning During the Covid-19 Pandemic: It is Not Who You Teach, But How You Teach

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Learning During the Covid-19 Pandemic: It is Not Who You Teach, But How You Teach

NBER Working Paper No. w28022

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 02 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2021

George Orlov, Douglas McKee, James Berry, Austin Boyle, Austin Boyle, Thomas DiCiccio, Tyler Ransom, Alex Rees-Jones and Jörg Stoye

Cornell University, Cornell University, University of Delaware - Economics, Florida State University - Department of EconomicsPenn State, Cornell University, University of Oklahoma, Cornell University - Department of Economics and Cornell University - Department of Economics

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Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: It is Not Who You Teach, But How You Teach

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13813

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 02 Nov 2020

George Orlov, Douglas McKee, James Berry, Austin Boyle, Austin Boyle, Thomas DiCiccio, Tyler Ransom, Alex Rees-Jones and Joerg Stoye

Cornell University, Cornell University, University of Delaware - Economics, Florida State University - Department of EconomicsPenn State, Cornell University, University of Oklahoma, Cornell University - Department of Economics and Cornell University

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Covid-19 Changed Tastes for Safety-Net Programs

NBER Working Paper No. w27865

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 28 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2021

Alex Rees-Jones, John D'Attoma, Amedeo Piolatto and Luca Salvadori

Cornell University - Department of Economics, University of Exeter, Autonomous University of Barcelona and University of Barcelona - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB)

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Measuring “Schmeduling”

NBER Working Paper No. w22884

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 05 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2021

Alex Rees-Jones and Dmitry Taubinsky

Cornell University - Department of Economics and Harvard University

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Attention Variation and Welfare: Theory and Evidence from a Tax Salience Experiment

NBER Working Paper No. w22545

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 22 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2021

Dmitry Taubinsky and Alex Rees-Jones

Harvard University and Cornell University - Department of Economics

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The Negative Consequences of Loss-Framed Performance Incentives

NBER Working Paper No. w26619

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 06 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2021

Lamar Pierce, Alex Rees-Jones and Charlotte Blank

Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business, Cornell University - Department of Economics and Maritz Holdings Inc.

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Taxing Humans: Pitfalls of the Mechanism Design Approach and Potential Resolutions

NBER Working Paper No. w23980

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 30 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2021

Alex Rees-Jones and Dmitry Taubinsky

Cornell University - Department of Economics and Harvard University

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Price Isn't Everything: Behavioral Response Around Changes in Sin Taxes

NBER Working Paper No. w25958

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 17 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2021

Alex Rees-Jones and Kyle Rozema

Cornell University - Department of Economics and Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law

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Reversing Reserves

NBER Working Paper No. w26963

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 13 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2021

Parag A. Pathak, Alex Rees-Jones and Tayfun Sonmez

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Department of Economics and Boston College

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Immigration Lottery Design: Engineered and Coincidental Consequences of H-1b Reforms

NBER Working Paper No. w26767

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 18 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2021

Parag A. Pathak, Alex Rees-Jones and Tayfun Sonmez

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Department of Economics and Boston College

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Alex Rees-Jones

Cornell University - Department of Economics

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