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Narrow Bracketing and Dominated Choices

Rabin, Matthew, Weizsäcker, Georg·2009·American Economic Review
DOI 10.1257/aer.99.4.1508
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We show that any decision maker who “narrowly brackets” (evaluates decisions separately) and does not have constant-absolute-risk-averse preferences will make a first-order stochastically dominated combined choice in some simple pair of independent binary decisions. We also characterize the preference-contingent monetary cost from this mistake. Empirically, in a real-stakes laboratory experiment that replicates Tversky and Kahneman's (1981) experiment, 28 percent of participants choose dominated combinations. In a representative survey eliciting hypothetical large-stakes choices, higher proportions do so. Violation rates vary little with personal characteristics. Average preferences are prospect-theoretic, with an estimated 89 percent of people bracketing narrowly. (JEL D12, D81)

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Authors
Rabin, M., & Weizsäcker, G.
Venue
American Economic Review
Publisher
American Economic Association
Published
2009-08-01
Volume
99
Issue
4
Pages
1508-1543
ISSN
0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1257/aer.99.4.1508
OpenAlex
W2141292470
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257
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journal article
Language
en
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