Leeat Yariv

Princeton University

Professor of Economics

Princeton, NJ 08544-1021

United States

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

London

United Kingdom

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

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Scholarly Papers (44)

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The Non-Existence of Representative Agents

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 01 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2020
Matthew O. Jackson and Leeat Yariv
Stanford University - Department of Economics and Princeton University
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Representative Agents, Collective Decisions

The Non-Existence of Representative Agents

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13397
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 17 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 20 May 2019
Matthew O. Jackson and Leeat Yariv
Stanford University - Department of Economics and Princeton University
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Collective Decisions, Preference Aggregation, Representative Agents, Revealed Preference

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Collective Dynamic Choice: The Necessity of Time Inconsistency

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 31 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2014
Matthew O. Jackson and Leeat Yariv
Stanford University - Department of Economics and Princeton University
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Preference Aggregation, Collective Preferences, Time Consistency, Intransitive Preferences, Voting, Cyclic Preferences, Present Bias, Hyperbolic Discounting, Social Welfare Ordering

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I'll See it When I Believe it ? A Simple Model of Cognitive Consistency

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 14 Feb 2002
Leeat Yariv
Princeton University
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Belief Utility, Cognitive Dissonance, Confirmatory Bias, Overconfidence, Selective Exposure

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Present Bias and Collective Dynamic Choice in the Lab

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 13 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2014
Matthew O. Jackson and Leeat Yariv
Stanford University - Department of Economics and Princeton University
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collective decisions, time inconsistency, collective utility functions, consumption plans, representative agents, voting, voting rules, majority voting, transitivity, hyperbolic discounting, present bias

Gender and Racial Biases: Evidence from Child Adoption

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2921
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 02 Feb 2010
Washington University in St. Louis, Duke University, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Economics and Princeton University
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child adoption, gender bias, racial bias, search, matching

Gender and Racial Biases: Evidence from Child Adoption

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP7647
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 08 Feb 2010
Washington University in St. Louis, Duke University, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Economics and Princeton University
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Child Adoption, Gender Bias, Matching, Racial Bias, Search

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The Dynamics of Networks and Homophily

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2022
Stanford University - Department of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Exeter Business School, University of Utah and Princeton University
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The Dynamics of Networks and Homophily

CESifo Working Paper No. 10210
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 25 Jan 2023
Stanford University - Department of Economics, University of Exeter, University of Utah and Princeton University
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homophily, social networks, dynamic networks, undergraduate education, peer effects

The Dynamics of Networks and Homophily

NBER Working Paper No. w30815
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 02 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2023
Stanford University - Department of Economics, University of Exeter, University of Utah and Princeton University
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Optimal Dynamic Matching

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 10 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2018
Washington University in St. Louis, University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University
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Dynamic Matching, Mechanism Design, Adoption, Kidney Exchange, Labor Markets

Optimal Dynamic Matching

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12986
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 18 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2018
Washington University in St. Louis, Washington University in St. Louis and Princeton University
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Dynamic Matching, market design, mechanism design, Organ Donation

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Believe and Let Believe: Axiomatic Foundations for Belief Dependent Utility Functionals

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 14 Jan 2002
Leeat Yariv
Princeton University
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Axiomatic Foundations, Beliefs, Time Preference, Utility

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Testing the Waters: Behavior Across Participant Pools

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 7136
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 28 Aug 2018
Erik Snowberg and Leeat Yariv
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Princeton University
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lab selection, external validity, experiments

Testing the Waters: Behavior Across Participant Pools

NBER Working Paper No. w24781
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 13 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2023
Erik Snowberg and Leeat Yariv
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Princeton University
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Testing the Waters: Behavior Across Participant Pools

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13015
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 03 Jul 2018
Erik Snowberg and Leeat Yariv
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Princeton University
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Experiments, External Validity, Lab Selection

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What Makes Voters Turn Out: The Effects of Polls and Beliefs

University of Zurich Department of Economics Working Paper No. 67
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 28 Mar 2012
California Institute of Technology, University of Zurich, University of Arizona - Eller College of Management and Princeton University
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Collective Choice, Polls, Strategic Voting

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Committee Design in the Presence of Communication

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 17 Mar 2003
Dino Gerardi and Leeat Yariv
Yale University - Cowles Foundation and Princeton University
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Communication, Collective Choice, Mechanism Design, Strategic Voting, Information Acquisition

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Sequential Deliberation

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 05 Nov 2010
Alessandro Lizzeri and Leeat Yariv
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Princeton University
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Deliberation, Voting, Juries

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An Experimental Study of Jury Deliberation

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 22 Sep 2009
Jacob K. Goeree and Leeat Yariv
University of Zurich and Princeton University
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Jury Decision Making, Deliberative Voting, Strategic Voting

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On the Efficiency of Stable Matchings in Large Markets

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 10 Jul 2014
SangMok Lee and Leeat Yariv
University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University
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Matching, Stability, Efficiency, Market Design

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Information Acquisition in Committees

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1411R
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 03 Sep 2007
Dino Gerardi and Leeat Yariv
Yale University - Cowles Foundation and Princeton University
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D71, D72, D78

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Similarity and Polarization in Groups

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 22 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2009
Mariagiovanna Baccara and Leeat Yariv
Washington University in St. Louis and Princeton University
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Homophily, Polarization, Group Formation, Information Collection

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Government Policy with Time Inconsistent Voters

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 31 Jul 2012
New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics, Princeton University - Department of Economics and Princeton University
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time inconsistency, behavioral political economy, nudge, public debt

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Experimenting with Measurement Error: Techniques with Applications to the Caltech Cohort Study

NBER Working Paper No. w21517
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 08 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2023
Ben Gillen, Ben Gillen, Erik Snowberg and Leeat Yariv
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesClaremont Colleges, Claremont McKenna College, Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, Students, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Princeton University
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Collective Self-Control

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 31 Jul 2012
Alessandro Lizzeri and Leeat Yariv
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Princeton University
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Time Inconsistency, Political Economy, Nudge Policies

Collective Self Control

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10458
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 02 Mar 2015
Alessandro Lizzeri and Leeat Yariv
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Princeton University
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behavioral political economy, hyperbolic discounting, time inconsistency

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Homophily in Peer Groups

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 23 Apr 2012
Mariagiovanna Baccara and Leeat Yariv
Washington University in St. Louis and Princeton University
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Homophily, Group Formation, Information Collection

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Centralized Matching with Incomplete Information

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 01 Mar 2021
Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University and Princeton University
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Deferred Acceptance, Incomplete Information, Matching

Centralized Matching with Incomplete Information

NBER Working Paper No. w29043
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 19 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 11 May 2023
Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University and Princeton University
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Centralized Matching with Incomplete Information

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15873
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 15 Mar 2021
Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University and Princeton University
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Individual and Collective Information Acquisition: An Experimental Study

CESifo Working Paper No. 9468
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 10 Dec 2021
Princeton University, Princeton University - Department of Economics, Princeton University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Department of Economics and The University of Hong Kong - University of Hong Kong
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information acquisition, collective choice, experiments

Individual and Collective Information Acquisition: An Experimental Study

NBER Working Paper No. w29557
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 13 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2023
Princeton University, Princeton University - Department of Economics, Princeton University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Department of Economics and The University of Hong Kong - University of Hong Kong
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Paying to Match: Decentralized Markets with Information Frictions

CESifo Working Paper No. 8820
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 20 Jan 2021
California Institute of Technology, University of Essex - Department of Economics, Yale University - Department of Economics and Princeton University
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Child-Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race

NBER Working Paper No. w16444
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 12 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2023
Washington University in St. Louis, Duke University, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Economics and Princeton University
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Decentralized Matching with Aligned Preferences

NBER Working Paper No. w14840
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 07 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2022
Muriel Niederle and Leeat Yariv
Stanford University - Department of Economics and Princeton University
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Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action in the Lab

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 11 May 2018
University of Essex, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Princeton University
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Statistical Discrimination, Affirmative Action, Experiments

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Equitable Voting Rules

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 29 Nov 2018
Institute of Advanced Studies, Lyon, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Princeton University
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Voting Rules, May's Theorem, Equity, Social Choice, Finite Groups

Equitable Voting Rules

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13316
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 19 Nov 2018
Institute of Advanced Studies, Lyon, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Princeton University
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equity, Finite Groups, May's Theorem, Social Choice, Voting rules

Task Allocation and On-the-job Training

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 24 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2021
Washington University in St. Louis, Washington University in St. Louis and Princeton University
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Dynamic Matching, Training by Doing, Market Design

Task Allocation and On-the-Job Training

NBER Working Paper No. w29312
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 27 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2023
Washington University in St. Louis, Washington University in St. Louis and Princeton University
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Task Allocation and On-the-Job Training

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15356
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 03 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2021
Washington University in St. Louis, Washington University in St. Louis and Princeton University
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Dynamic Matching, market design, Training by Doing

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A Field Study on Matching with Network Externalities

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 15 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2015
Washington University in St. Louis, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Princeton University
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Matching, Social Networks, Externalities

Retrospective Search: Exploration and Ambition on Uncharted Terrain

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 11 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2021
Can Urgun and Leeat Yariv
Princeton University and Princeton University
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Retrospective Search, Drawdown Stopping Boundary, Contracting

Retrospective Search: Exploration and Ambition on Uncharted Terrain

NBER Working Paper No. w29127
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 09 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2023
Can Urgun and Leeat Yariv
Princeton University and Princeton University
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Retrospective Search: Exploration and Ambition on Uncharted Terrain

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15534
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 23 Dec 2020
Can Urgun and Leeat Yariv
Princeton University and Princeton University
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Who Cares More? Allocation with Diverse Preference Intensities

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 27 Aug 2021
Pietro Ortoleva, Evgenii Safonov and Leeat Yariv
Princeton University - Department of Economics, Princeton University, Department of Economics and Princeton University
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Market Design, Mechanism Design, Allocation Problems

Who Cares More? Allocation with Diverse Preference Intensities

NBER Working Paper No. w29208
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 06 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2023
Pietro Ortoleva, Evgenii Safonov and Leeat Yariv
Princeton University - Department of Economics, Princeton University, Department of Economics and Princeton University
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Who Cares More? Allocation with Diverse Preference Intensities

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16491
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 22 Sep 2021
Pietro Ortoleva, Evgenii Safonov and Leeat Yariv
Princeton University - Department of Economics, Princeton University, Department of Economics and Princeton University
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Allocation Problems, market design, mechanism design

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Individual and Collective Information Acquisition: An Experimental Study

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 02 Feb 2022
Princeton University, Princeton University - Department of Economics, Princeton University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Department of Economics and The University of Hong Kong - School of Economics and Finance
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Information Collection, Collective Choice, Experiments

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Paying to Match: Decentralized Markets with Information Frictions

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 18 Feb 2021
California Institute of Technology, University of Essex, Yale University - Department of Economics and Princeton University
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Matching, Incomplete Information, Stability, Experiments

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Top of the Batch: Interviews and the Match

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 12 Feb 2021
California Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, University of Pittsburgh and Princeton University
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NRMP, Deferred acceptance, Interviews, First-rank matches

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Dominance Solvability in Random Games

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 24 May 2021
Noga Alon, Kirill Rudov and Leeat Yariv
Princeton University, Princeton University and Princeton University
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Random Games, Dominance Solvability, Iterated Elimination

Coordination with Differential Time Preferences: Experimental Evidence

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 25 May 2023
Marina Agranov, Jeongbin Kim and Leeat Yariv
California Institute of Technology, Florida State University and Princeton University
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Repeated Games, Discounting, Intertemporal Trade, Experiments

Coordination with Differential Time Preferences: Experimental Evidence

CESifo Working Paper No. 10454
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 07 Jun 2023
Marina Agranov, Jeongbin Kim and Leeat Yariv
California Institute of Technology, Florida State University and Princeton University
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repeated games, discounting, intertemporal trade, experiments

Coordination with Differential Time Preferences: Experimental Evidence

NBER Working Paper No. w31288
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 29 May 2023 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2023
Marina Agranov, Jeongbin Kim and Leeat Yariv
California Institute of Technology, Florida State University and Princeton University
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Collective Progress: Dynamics of Exit Waves

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 08 Jul 2021
Doruk Cetemen, Can Urgun and Leeat Yariv
City University London - Department of Economics, Princeton University and Princeton University
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Retrospective Search, Optimal Stopping, Collective Action, Exit Waves

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Collective Progress: Dynamics of Exit Waves

NBER Working Paper No. w29008
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 12 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2023
Doruk Cetemen, Can Urgun and Leeat Yariv
City University London - Department of Economics, Princeton University and Princeton University
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Collective Progress: Dynamics of Exit Waves

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16341
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 14 Jul 2021
Doruk Cetemen, Can Urgun and Leeat Yariv
City University London - Department of Economics, Princeton University and Princeton University
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Experimental Economics: Past and Future

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 14, pp. 777-794, 2022
Posted: 31 Aug 2022
New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics, Princeton University and Princeton University

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Individual and Collective Information Acquisition: An Experimental Study

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16782
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 04 Feb 2022
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Department of Economics, Princeton University - Department of Economics, Princeton University, The University of Hong Kong - University of Hong Kong and Princeton University
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collective choice, Experiments, Information Acquisition

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Top of the Batch: Interviews and the Match

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15559
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 23 Dec 2020
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, University of Pittsburgh and Princeton University
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Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action in the Lab

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12915
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 24 May 2018
University of Essex - Department of Economics, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Princeton University
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affirmative action, experiments, statistical discrimination

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Deliberating Collective Decisions

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10466
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 09 Mar 2015
Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University - Department of Economics, The University of Hong Kong - School of Economics and Finance and Princeton University
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collec- tive learning, optimal stopping, sequential likelihood ratio test, swing voters

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A Note on Repeated Games with Non-Monotonic Value

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GAME THEORY, Vol 26 No 2, 1997
Posted: 16 Jul 1997
Leeat Yariv
Princeton University

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