Eliciting welfare preferences from behavioural data sets

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 375-387

  Rubinstein, Ariel ^a,b   Salant, Yuval ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioural data set; Bounded rationality; Preferences; Welfare analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

EID: 84857026648     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdr024     Document Type: Article

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