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Bayesian Persuasion
- Emir Kamenica, M. Gentzkow
- Economics, Computer Science
- 1 November 2009
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Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households
- Marianne Bertrand, Emir Kamenica, Jessica Pan
- Economics
- 1 February 2013
We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We show the distribution of the share of income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp drop to the right of 1/2, where the wife's…
Gender Differences in Mate Selection: Evidence From a Speed Dating Experiment
- R. Fisman, S. Iyengar, Emir Kamenica, I. Simonson
- Economics
- 1 May 2006
We study dating behavior using data from a Speed Dating experiment where we generate random matching of subjects and create random variation in the number of potential partners. Our design allows us…
Contextual Inference in Markets: On the Informational Content of Product Lines
- Emir Kamenica
- Economics, Business
- 1 November 2008
Context can influence decisions. This malleability of choice is usually invoked as evidence that people do not maximize stable preference orderings. In a market equilibrium, however, context conveys…
Man's search for meaning: The case of Legos
- D. Ariely, Emir Kamenica, D. Prelec
- Psychology
- 1 September 2008
Costly Persuasion
- M. Gentzkow, Emir Kamenica
- Economics, Computer Science
- 2013
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Behavioral Economics and Psychology of Incentives
- Emir Kamenica
- Economics
- 1 July 2012
Monetary incentives can backfire while nonstandard interventions, such as framing, can be effective in influencing behavior. I review the empirical evidence on these two sets of anomalies. Paying for…
Suspense and Surprise
- J. Ely, A. Frankel, Emir Kamenica
- EconomicsJournal of Political Economy
- 1 February 2015
We model demand for noninstrumental information, drawing on the idea that people derive entertainment utility from suspense and surprise. A period has more suspense if the variance of the next…
Competition in Persuasion
- M. Gentzkow, Emir Kamenica
- Economics
- 1 September 2011
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Racial Preferences in Dating
- R. Fisman, S. Iyengar, Emir Kamenica, I. Simonson
- Economics
- 2008
We examine racial preferences in dating. We employ a Speed Dating experiment that allows us to directly observe individual decisions and thus infer whose preferences lead to racial segregation in…
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