Erzo F. P. Luttmer

Dartmouth College

Department of Economics

Hanover, NH 03755

United States

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

IZA Institute of Labor Economics

P.O. Box 7240

Bonn, D-53072

Germany

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

33

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Scholarly Papers (33)

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Screening in New Credit Markets: Can Individual Lenders Infer Borrower Creditworthiness in Peer-to-Peer Lending?

AFA 2011 Denver Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 15 Mar 2010
Rajkamal Iyer, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Erzo F. P. Luttmer and Kelly Shue
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Dartmouth College and Yale School of Management
Downloads 2,912 (9,295)
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Peer-to-peer credit markets, Market-based Lending, Screening, Market Inference, Information and Hierarchies.

Neighbors as Negatives: Relative Earnings and Well-Being

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 02 Aug 2004
Erzo F. P. Luttmer
Dartmouth College
Downloads 240 (261,740)
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Microeconomics

Neighbors as Negatives: Relative Earnings and Well-Being

NBER Working Paper No. w10667
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 02 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2022
Erzo F. P. Luttmer
Dartmouth College
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Citation 51

Decision Complexity as a Barrier to Annuitization

Netspar Discussion Paper No. 06/2013-058
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Nov 2013
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Finance, University of Southern California - Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), Dartmouth College and
Downloads 104 (538,694)
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Decision Complexity as a Barrier to Annuitization

CESR Working Paper No. 2013-004
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 01 Oct 2013
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Finance, University of Southern California - Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), Dartmouth College and
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Annuities, Consumer Behavior

Cognitive Constraints on Valuing Annuities

NBER Working Paper No. w19168
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 29 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 18 May 2023
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Finance, University of Southern California - Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), Dartmouth College and
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Complexity as a Barrier to Annuitization: Do Consumers Know How to Value Annuities?

Pension Research Council WP 2013-01
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 04 Apr 2013
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Finance, University of Southern California - Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), Dartmouth College and
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The Misallocation of Housing Under Rent Control

NBER Working Paper No. w6220
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 14 Jun 2000 Last Revised: 01 Jan 2023
Edward L. Glaeser and Erzo F. P. Luttmer
Harvard University - Department of Economics and Dartmouth College
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Cognitive Constraints on Valuing Annuities

Pension Research Council WP 2014-21
Number of pages: 99 Posted: 13 Nov 2014
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Finance, University of Southern California - Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), Dartmouth College and
Downloads 214 (293,852)
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annuity, retirement income, Social Security, financial literacy, cognition

Insuring Consumption and Happiness Through Religious Organizations

KSG Working Paper No. RWP05-047
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 08 Sep 2005
Rajeev H. Dehejia, Thomas DeLeire and Erzo F. P. Luttmer
New York University (NYU) - Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Georgetown University and Dartmouth College
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Economics - Microeconomics, Welfare/Health Care/Social Policy

Insuring Consumption and Happiness Through Religious Organizations

NBER Working Paper No. w11576
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 14 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2022
Rajeev H. Dehejia, Thomas DeLeire and Erzo F. P. Luttmer
New York University (NYU) - Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Georgetown University and Dartmouth College
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Private Investment and Government Protection

KSG Working Paper No. RWP06-017
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 06 Jul 2006
Carolyn Kousky, Erzo F. P. Luttmer and Richard J. Zeckhauser
Environmental Defense Fund, Dartmouth College and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
Downloads 156 (390,367)
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Business and Government Policy, Economics - Microeconomics, Environment and Natural Resources

Private Investment and Government Protection

NBER Working Paper No. w12255
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 01 Jun 2006 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2022
Carolyn Kousky, Erzo F. P. Luttmer and Richard J. Zeckhauser
Environmental Defense Fund, Dartmouth College and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Citation 12

Does the Minimum Wage Cause Inefficient Rationing?

KSG Working Paper No. RWP07-018, IZA Discussion Paper No. 2713
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 21 Apr 2007
Erzo F. P. Luttmer
Dartmouth College
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rationing, minimum wage, job allocation, misallocation cost, allocative efficiency

Does the Minimum Wage Cause Inefficient Rationing?

NBER Working Paper No. w13012
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 06 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2022
Erzo F. P. Luttmer
Dartmouth College
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Who Misvotes? The Effect of Differential Cognition Costs on Election Outcomes

KSG Working Paper No. RWP06-048, IZA Discussion Paper No. 2451
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 17 Nov 2006
Erzo F. P. Luttmer and Kelly Shue
Dartmouth College and Yale School of Management
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bounded rationality, voting mistakes, ballot design, voting technology, voter intent, electoral systems, electoral reform

Who Misvotes? The Effect of Differential Cognition Costs on Election Outcomes

NBER Working Paper No. w12709
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 20 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2022
Kelly Shue and Erzo F. P. Luttmer
Yale School of Management and Dartmouth College
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Screening Peers Softly: Inferring the Quality of Small Borrowers

NBER Working Paper No. w15242
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 18 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2023
Rajkamal Iyer, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Erzo F. P. Luttmer and Kelly Shue
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Dartmouth College and Yale School of Management
Downloads 184 (337,916)
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Approaches to Estimating the Health State Dependence of the Utility Function

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3925
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 19 Jan 2009
Amy Finkelstein, Erzo F. P. Luttmer and Matthew Notowidigdo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Dartmouth College and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 98 (561,876)
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state dependence, health, insurance, marginal utility

Approaches to Estimating the Health State Dependence of the Utility Function

HKS Working Paper No. RWP09-002
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 14 Jan 2009
Amy Finkelstein, Erzo F. P. Luttmer and Matthew Notowidigdo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Dartmouth College and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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State dependence, health, insurance, marginal utility, Microeconomics, Education Policy, Human Resources, Labor and Education

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Citation 81

Tax Morale

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8448
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 27 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
Erzo F. P. Luttmer and Monica Singhal
Dartmouth College and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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reciprocity, intrinsic motivation, tax compliance, social effects, culture

Tax Morale

NBER Working Paper No. w20458
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 08 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 27 May 2023
Erzo F. P. Luttmer and Monica Singhal
Dartmouth College and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Behavioral Impediments to Valuing Annuities: Complexity and Choice Bracketing

Wharton Pension Research Council Working Paper No. 2019-05
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 08 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2020
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Finance, University of Southern California - Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), Dartmouth College, and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management
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pension, annuity, retirement income, Social Security, cognition, behavioral economics

Behavioral Impediments to Valuing Annuities: Complexity and Choice Bracketing

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12263
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 21 May 2019 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Finance, University of Southern California - Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), Dartmouth College, and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management
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behavioral, cognition, Social Security, retirement income, annuity, pension

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Citation 61

Network Effects and Welfare Cultures

NBER Working Paper No. w6832
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 20 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2022
Marianne Bertrand, Erzo F. P. Luttmer and Sendhil Mullainathan
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Dartmouth College and University of Chicago
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Network Effects and Welfare Cultures

Posted: 03 Feb 1999
Sendhil Mullainathan, Marianne Bertrand and Erzo F. P. Luttmer
University of Chicago, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Dartmouth College

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Permits to Elicit Information

KSG Working Paper No. RWP06-049
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 05 Feb 2007
Erzo F. P. Luttmer, Richard J. Zeckhauser and Carolyn Kousky
Dartmouth College, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Environmental Defense Fund
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Economics, Econometric Theory, Economics - Microeconomics, Housing, Urban Development and Transportation, Regulation

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Social Support Substitution and the Earnings Rebound: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform

NBER Working Paper No. w18261
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 28 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 26 May 2023
Lex Borghans, Anne C. Gielen and Erzo F. P. Luttmer
Maastricht University - Department of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) and Dartmouth College
Downloads 104 (534,200)
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Behavioral Impediments to Valuing Annuities: Evidence on the Effects of Complexity and Choice Bracketing

NBER Working Paper No. w24101
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 12 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 10 May 2023
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Finance, University of Southern California - Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), Dartmouth College, and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management
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What Good is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption

NBER Working Paper No. w14089
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 22 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 01 Jan 2023
Amy Finkelstein, Erzo F. P. Luttmer and Matthew Notowidigdo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Dartmouth College and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 92 (579,288)
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Culture, Context, and the Taste for Redistribution

NBER Working Paper No. w14268
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 27 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2022
Erzo F. P. Luttmer and Monica Singhal
Dartmouth College and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Would People Behave Differently If They Better Understood Social Security? Evidence from a Field Experiment

NBER Working Paper No. w17287
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 12 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2023
Jeffrey B. Liebman and Erzo F. P. Luttmer
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Dartmouth College
Downloads 68 (686,255)
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What Determines Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence on Income, Race, and Fairness

NBER Working Paper No. w13219
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 03 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2022
Christina M. Fong and Erzo F. P. Luttmer
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Dartmouth College
Downloads 61 (724,683)
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Social Support Substitution and the Earnings Rebound: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5412
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 03 Jan 2011
Lex Borghans, Anne C. Gielen and Erzo F. P. Luttmer
Maastricht University - Department of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) and Dartmouth College
Downloads 59 (736,281)
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crowd out, spillover effects, benefit substitution, social insurance, income assistance, welfare, regression discontinuity, administrative data

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Do Race and Fairness Matter in Generosity? Evidence from a Nationally Representative Charity Experiment

NBER Working Paper No. w15064
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 16 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2023
Christina M. Fong and Erzo F. P. Luttmer
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Dartmouth College
Downloads 59 (736,281)
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The Value of Medicaid: Interpreting Results from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment

NBER Working Paper No. w21308
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 29 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2023
Amy Finkelstein, Nathaniel Hendren and Erzo F. P. Luttmer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Department of Economics and Dartmouth College
Downloads 57 (748,297)
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The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth

NBER Working Paper No. w13369
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 10 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2022
New York University (NYU) - Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Georgetown University, Dartmouth College and Harvard University - Department of Economics
Downloads 57 (748,297)
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The Insurance Value of State Tax-and-Transfer Programs

NBER Working Paper No. w16280
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 24 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2023
Hilary Williamson Hoynes and Erzo F. P. Luttmer
University of California, Berkeley and Dartmouth College
Downloads 55 (760,925)
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Labor Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits: Evidence from Discontinuities

NBER Working Paper No. w14540
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 15 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2022
Jeffrey B. Liebman, Erzo F. P. Luttmer and David Seif
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Dartmouth College and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 46 (823,151)
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The Welfare Cost of Perceived Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from Social Security

NBER Working Paper No. w21818
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 21 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2023
Erzo F. P. Luttmer and Andrew A. Samwick
Dartmouth College and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Schedule Selection by Agents: From Price Plans to Tax Tables

NBER Working Paper No. w13808
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 15 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2022
Erzo F. P. Luttmer and Richard J. Zeckhauser
Dartmouth College and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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The Perception of Social Security Incentives for Labor Supply and Retirement: The Median Voter Knows More than You'd Think

NBER Working Paper No. w20562
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 06 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2023
Jeffrey B. Liebman and Erzo F. P. Luttmer
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Dartmouth College
Downloads 30 (962,996)
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Can Fiscal Externalities Be Internalized?

NBER Working Paper No. w30213
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 04 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2023
Erzo F. P. Luttmer
Dartmouth College
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Group Loyalty and the Taste for Redistribution

Posted: 21 May 2001
Erzo F. P. Luttmer
Dartmouth College

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