Alex Rees-Jones

University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department

Philadelphia, PA 19104

United States

http://https://opimweb.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/26948/

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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, Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball and Alex Rees-Jones
USC, Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics and University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department
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happiness, life satisfaction, subjective well-being, hypothetical choice, utility

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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
University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department
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Loss aversion, income taxation, tax sheltering, tax avoidance, tax evasion

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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, Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball and Alex Rees-Jones
USC, Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics and University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department
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happiness, life satisfaction, subjective well-being, preference, utility, revealed preference, marginal rate of substitution

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
Daniel J. Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball and Alex Rees-Jones
USC, Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics and University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department
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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
University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department
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matching, deferred acceptance algorithm, suboptimal behavior.

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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: 29 Oct 2010
Daniel J. Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball and Alex Rees-Jones
USC, Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics and University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department
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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: 08 Nov 2017
Alex Rees-Jones and Dmitry Taubinsky
University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and Harvard University
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Measuring “Schmeduling”

NBER Working Paper No. w22884
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 05 Dec 2016
Alex Rees-Jones and Dmitry Taubinsky
University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department 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: 29 Aug 2016
Dmitry Taubinsky and Alex Rees-Jones
Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department
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