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DOI10.3386/w26522
来源IDWorking Paper 26522
Estimating Biases in Smoking Cessation: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Frank J. Chaloupka IV; Matthew R. Levy; Justin S. White
发表日期2019-12-09
出版年2019
语种英语
摘要We conduct a randomized field experiment to quantify biases that affect consumers of addictive goods: present-biased preferences, naïve beliefs regarding present bias, and projection-biased beliefs over future abstinence. These biases reflect departures from the neoclassical benchmark needed to accommodate intertemporal and state-dependent prediction errors and have important theoretical and policy ramifications. Our experiment employs a new approach for remote monitoring to ensure truthful reporting of behavior and valuations, and a novel identification of subjects’ biases based on willingness to pay for future abstinence incentives that serve as partial commitment devices. We find that cigarette smokers overestimate their likelihood of future abstinence by more than 100%, consistent with partially-naïve present-biased preferences. We estimate that on average smokers are present biased and only partially aware of their present bias, with substantial heterogeneity and a positive correlation between the two at the individual level. Smokers mispredict the effects of an abstinence intervention. Ex ante smokers anticipate no effect of the intervention on their future abstinence and ex post fail to recognize the intervention’s positive effect. Our estimates highlight that smokers suffer from a constellation of biases: under their own long-run preferences, smokers’ choices lead to a private welfare loss of $400 per week.
主题Econometrics ; Experimental Design ; Microeconomics ; Behavioral Economics ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health
URLhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w26522
来源智库National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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Frank J. Chaloupka IV,Matthew R. Levy,Justin S. White. Estimating Biases in Smoking Cessation: Evidence from a Field Experiment. 2019.
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