Ori Heffetz

Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management

Associate Professor of Economics

324 Sage Hall

Ithaca, NY 14853

United States

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Economics and Center for Rationality

Mount Scopus

Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91905

Israel

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

http://www.nber.org/~heffetz

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1.

What Do You Think Would Make You Happier? What Do You Think You Would Choose?

American Economic Review, 102(5): 2083–2110, Johnson School Research Paper Series No. 32-2011
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 28 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2013
Daniel J. Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball and Alex Rees-Jones
Anderson School of Management, Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, University of Colorado Boulder and Cornell University - Department of Economics
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happiness, life satisfaction, subjective well-being, hypothetical choice, utility

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Preferences for Status: Evidence and Economic Implications

HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL ECONOMICS, Jess Benhabib, Alberto Bisin, Matthew Jackson, eds., Vol. 1A, The Netherlands: North-Holland, pp. 69–91., Johnson School Research Paper Series No. #05-09
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 04 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2013
Ori Heffetz and Robert H. Frank
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and Cornell University - Department of Economics
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preferences for status, positional concerns, subjective well-being, conspicuous consumption, positional externalities, relative income, status experiments

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Beyond Happiness and Satisfaction: Toward Well-Being Indices Based on Stated Preference

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Beyond Happiness and Satisfaction: Toward Well-Being Indices Based on Stated Preference

American Economic Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 31 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2013
Daniel J. Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball and Nichole Szembrot
Anderson School of Management, Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, University of Colorado Boulder and Trinity College
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happiness, life satisfaction, subjective well-being, stated preference, well-being index

Beyond Happiness and Satisfaction: Toward Well-Being Indices Based on Stated Preference

NBER Working Paper No. w18374
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 15 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2021
Daniel J. Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball and Nichole Szembrot
Anderson School of Management, Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, University of Colorado Boulder and Trinity College
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A Test of Conspicuous Consumption: Visibility and Income Elasticities

Review of Economics and Statistics, 93(4): 1101–1117
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 05 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2013
Ori Heffetz
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
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cultural visibility of expenditures, conspicuous consumption, total expenditure elasticity, income elasticity, Engel curves, signaling by consuming

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Can Marginal Rates of Substitution Be Inferred from Happiness Data? Evidence from Residency Choices

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Can Marginal Rates of Substitution Be Inferred from Happiness Data? Evidence from Residency Choices

American Economic Review, Forthcoming, Johnson School Research Paper Series No. 8-2013
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 21 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2014
Daniel J. Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball and Alex Rees-Jones
Anderson School of Management, Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, University of Colorado Boulder and Cornell University - Department of Economics
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happiness, life satisfaction, subjective well-being, preference, utility, revealed preference, marginal rate of substitution

Can Marginal Rates of Substitution Be Inferred from Happiness Data? Evidence from Residency Choices

NBER Working Paper No. w18927
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 30 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2021
Daniel J. Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball and Alex Rees-Jones
Anderson School of Management, Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, University of Colorado Boulder and Cornell University - Department of Economics
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Privacy and Data-Based Research

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Privacy and Data-Based Research

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 15 Sep 2013
Ori Heffetz and Katrina Ligett
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and California Institute of Technology - Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences & Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
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data privacy, differential privacy, privacy guarantees, big data

Privacy and Data-Based Research

NBER Working Paper No. w19433
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 14 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2021
Ori Heffetz and Katrina Ligett
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and California Institute of Technology - Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences & Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Cobb-Douglas Utility with Nonlinear Engel Curves in a Conspicuous Consumption Model

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 04 Aug 2007
Ori Heffetz
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
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conspicuous consumption, Engel curves, total expenditure elasticity, Cobb-Douglas

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How Large are Non-Budget-Constraint Effects of Prices on Demand?

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 170–199
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 16 May 2008 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2010
Ori Heffetz and Moses Shayo
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Economics
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consumer behavior, demand, price, quality signals, experiments

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Who Sees What? Demographics and the Visibility of Consumer Expenditures

Journal of Economic Psychology, 33(4): 801–818
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 05 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2013
Ori Heffetz
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
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expenditure visibility, expenditure observability, conspicuous consumption, survey data, visibility subcultures

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Monetary-Incentive Competition Between Humans and Robots: Experimental Results

In Proc. of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’19), IEEE, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 13 Feb 2019
Alap Kshirsagar, Bnaya Dreyfuss, Guy Ishai, Ori Heffetz and Guy Hoffman
Cornell University, Harvard University, Students, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Economics and Center for Rationality, Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and Cornell University - Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Human-Robot Competition; Expectations-Based Reference-Dependent Preferences; Loss Aversion; Perceived Competence

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Conclusions Regarding Cross-Group Differences in Happiness Depend on Difficulty of Reaching Respondents

American Economic Review, 103(7): 3001-3021
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 06 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2013
Ori Heffetz and Matthew Rabin
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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nonresponse bias, selection bias, happiness, surveys

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Is the Endowment Effect an Expectations Effect?

Journal of the European Economic Association, Forthcoming.
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 08 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2013
Ori Heffetz and John A. List
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and University of Chicago - Department of Economics
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endowment effect, expectations, prospect theory, experiments

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Expectations-Based Loss Aversion May Help Explain Seemingly Dominated Choices in Strategy-Proof Mechanisms

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Expectations-Based Loss Aversion May Help Explain Seemingly Dominated Choices in Strategy-Proof Mechanisms

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 30 May 2019 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2021
Bnaya Dreyfuss, Ori Heffetz and Matthew Rabin
Harvard University, Students, Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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dominated strategies, market design, obvious misrepresentation, school choice, strategy-proof, expectations, beliefs, reference-dependent preferences, endowment effect, prospect theory, first-order-stochastic-dominance violations

Expectations-Based Loss Aversion May Help Explain Seemingly Dominated Choices in Strategy-Proof Mechanisms

NBER Working Paper No. w26394
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 21 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2021
Bnaya Dreyfuss, Ori Heffetz and Matthew Rabin
Harvard University, Students, Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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Difficulty to Reach Respondents and Nonresponse Bias: Evidence from Large Government Surveys

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Difficulty to Reach Respondents and Nonresponse Bias: Evidence from Large Government Surveys

Review of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 07 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2018
Ori Heffetz and Daniel Reeves
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and Capital One Bank
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nonresponse bias, selection bias, survey data, difficulty of reaching, contact attempts, number of calls, paradata

Difficulty to Reach Respondents and Nonresponse Bias: Evidence from Large Government Surveys

NBER Working Paper No. w22333
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 13 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2021
Ori Heffetz and Daniel Reeves
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and Capital One Bank
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Challenges in Constructing a Survey-Based Well-Being Index

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Challenges in Constructing a Survey-Based Well-Being Index

American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, Forthcoming, CESR-Schaeffer Working Paper No. 2900774
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 20 Jan 2017
Daniel J. Benjamin, Kristen B. Cooper, Ori Heffetz and Miles S. Kimball
Anderson School of Management, Gordon College, Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and University of Colorado Boulder
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Well-Being, Preference, Indicators, Index

Challenges in Constructing a Survey-Based Well-Being Index

NBER Working Paper No. w23111
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 30 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2021
Daniel J. Benjamin, Kristen B. Cooper, Ori Heffetz and Miles S. Kimball
Anderson School of Management, Gordon College, Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and University of Colorado Boulder
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Aggregating Local Preferences to Guide Marginal Policy Adjustments

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Aggregating Local Preferences to Guide Marginal Policy Adjustments

American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 103(3): 605-610, Johnson School Research Paper Series No. 1-2013
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 26 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2013
Daniel J. Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball and Nichole Szembrot
Anderson School of Management, Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, University of Colorado Boulder and Trinity College
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subjective well-being, happiness, life satisfaction, aggregation, policy

Aggregating Local Preferences to Guide Marginal Policy Adjustments

NBER Working Paper No. w18787
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 11 Feb 2013
Daniel J. Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball and Nichole Szembrot
Anderson School of Management, Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, University of Colorado Boulder and Trinity College
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Reminders Work, But for Whom? Evidence from New York City Parking-Ticket Recipients

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Reminders Work, But for Whom? Evidence from New York City Parking-Ticket Recipients

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 27 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2021
Ori Heffetz, Ted O'Donoghue and Henry S. Schneider
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University - Department of Economics and Smith School of Business, Queen's University
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nudge, deadlines, heterogeneous responses, inattention, selection, task completion, task delay, incidence analysis

Forgetting and Heterogeneity in Task Delay: Evidence from New York City Parking-Ticket Recipients

NBER Working Paper No. w23012
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 03 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 19 May 2021
Ori Heffetz, Ted O'Donoghue and Henry S. Schneider
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University - Department of Economics and Smith School of Business, Queen's University
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Are Reference Points Merely Lagged Beliefs Over Probabilities?

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Are Reference Points Merely Lagged Beliefs Over Probabilities?

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 24 May 2018 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2018
Ori Heffetz
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
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expectations, beliefs, reference-dependent preferences, sink-in, endow- ment effect, effort provision, prospect theory, experiments

Are Reference Points Merely Lagged Beliefs Over Probabilities?

NBER Working Paper No. w24721
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 18 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2021
Ori Heffetz
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
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What Do Happiness Data Mean? Theory and Survey Evidence

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 18 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 18 May 2021
Daniel J. Benjamin, Jakina Debnam Guzman, Ori Heffetz, Marc Fleurbaey and Miles S. Kimball
Anderson School of Management, Amherst College, Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and University of Colorado Boulder
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happiness, life satisfaction, subjective well-being, survey questions

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Do People Seek to Maximize Happiness? Evidence from New Surveys

NBER Working Paper No. w16489
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 25 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2021
Daniel J. Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball and Alex Rees-Jones
Anderson School of Management, Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, University of Colorado Boulder and Cornell University - Department of Economics
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Expenditure Visibility and Consumer Behavior: New Evidence

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Expenditure Visibility and Consumer Behavior: New Evidence

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 24 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2018
Ori Heffetz
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
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expenditure visibility, noticeability, impressions, conspicuous consumption, Engel curves, income elasticities, luxury goods, household data, surveys

Expenditure Visibility and Consumer Behavior: New Evidence

NBER Working Paper No. w25161
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 16 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2021
Ori Heffetz
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
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Self-Reported Wellbeing Indicators Are a Valuable Complement to Traditional Economic Indicators but Aren’t Yet Ready to Compete With Them

Behavioural Public Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 06 Oct 2019
Daniel J. Benjamin, Kristen B. Cooper, Ori Heffetz and Miles S. Kimball
Anderson School of Management, Gordon College, Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and University of Colorado Boulder
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Self-Reported Well-Being, Preference, Indicators, Index, Policy

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Self-Reported Wellbeing Indicators Are a Valuable Complement to Traditional Economic Indicators but Aren’t Yet Ready to Compete with Them. A Comment on a Happy Choice: Wellbeing As the Goal of Government by Paul Frijters, Andrew E. Clark, Christian Krekel and Richard Layard

CESR-Schaeffer Working Paper No. 2019-002
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 04 Oct 2019
Daniel J. Benjamin, Kristen B. Cooper, Ori Heffetz and Miles S. Kimball
Anderson School of Management, Gordon College, Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and University of Colorado Boulder
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A Grant to Every Citizen: Survey Evidence of the Impact of a Direct Government Payment in Israel

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2020
Naomi E. Feldman and Ori Heffetz
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Economics and Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
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fiscal policy, universal transfers, marginal propensity to spend, MPC, stimulus

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Measuring Unemployment in Crisis: Effects of COVID-19 on Potential Biases in the CPS

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Measuring Unemployment in Crisis: Effects of COVID-19 on Potential Biases in the CPS

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 26 Dec 2020
Ori Heffetz and Daniel Reeves
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and Capital One Bank
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unemployment, COVID, rotation group bias, nonresponse bias, selection bias, survey data, difficulty of reaching, number of contact attempts, paradata

Measuring Unemployment in Crisis: Effects of Covid-19 on Potential Biases in the CPS

NBER Working Paper No. w28310
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 04 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2021
Ori Heffetz and Daniel Reeves
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and Capital One Bank
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Is the Endowment Effect a Reference Effect?

NBER Working Paper No. w16715
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 24 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2021
Ori Heffetz and John A. List
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and University of Chicago - Department of Economics
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What Do Happiness Data Mean? Theory and Survey Evidence

NBER Working Paper No. w28438
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 08 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2021
Daniel J. Benjamin, Jakina Debnam Guzman, Ori Heffetz, Marc Fleurbaey and Miles S. Kimball
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Amherst College, Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, Paris School of Economics and University of Colorado Boulder
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Which Beliefs? Behavior-Predictive Beliefs are Inconsistent with Information-Based Beliefs: Evidence from Covid-19

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 06 Jul 2021
Ori Heffetz and Guy Ishai
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Economics and Center for Rationality
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Information, Expectations, Beliefs, Risk Perceptions, Survey Elicitation, COVID-19

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Beliefs, Expectations, and Behavior in the Time of Corona

Israel Economic Review, Vol. 18, No. 1 (2020), 47–58
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 27 Oct 2020
Ori Heffetz
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
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A Grant to Every Citizen: Survey Evidence of the Impact of a Direct Government Payment in Israel

NBER Working Paper No. w28312
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 04 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2021
Naomi Feldman and Ori Heffetz
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
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