Who Is (More) Rational?
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Revealed preference theory offers a criterion for decision-making quality: if decisions are high quality then there exists a utility function the choices maximize. We conduct a large-scale experiment to test for consistency with utility maximization. Consistency scores vary markedly within and across socioeconomic groups. In particular, consistency is strongly related to wealth: A standard deviation increase in consistency is associated with 15–19 percent more household wealth. This association is quantitatively robust to conditioning on correlates of unobserved constraints, preferences, and beliefs. Consistency with utility maximization under laboratory conditions thus captures decision-making ability that applies across domains and influences important real-world outcomes. (JEL D12, D14, D81, D83, D91, G11)
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In human subjects (our experiment) and prior studies, rationality score and preference differ across demographic groups.
“These are in contrast to results of our human experiment (SI Appendix, Tables S5 and S6) and prior studies where rationality score and preference have been shown to differ across demographic groups (22, 28, 61).”
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- Authors
- Choi, S., Kariv, S., Müller, W., & Silverman, D.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- University of Vienna (AT)
- Arizona State University (US)
- Venue
- American Economic Review
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 2014-06-01
- Volume
- 104
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1518-1550
- ISSN
- 0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1601160662
- Cited by
- 277
- References
- 87
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 5.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Locations
- American Economic Review (publishedVersion)
- National Bureau of Economic Research (publishedVersion)
- Research portal (Tilburg University) (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (submittedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Seoul National University Open Repository (Seoul National University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
- Universiteit van Tilburg
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Keywords
- revealed preference, utility maximization, decision consistency, rationality, socioeconomic heterogeneity, income, gender differences, age, wealth, personality, risk tolerance, field experiments
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