# Publications No reprints or pdf's of any published or unpublished work, including chapters and working papers without links, can be sent. "[Moral Preferences, Moral Constraints, and Self-Serving Biases](https://rabin.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum7721/files/2026-01/Beni%20and%20Kanzi%202025-05-14.pdf)", *European Economic Review*, Forthcoming. Press coverage: none "[Estimating perceptions of the relative COVID risk of different social-distancing behaviors from respondents’ pairwise assessments](https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2219599120)" (with Ori Heffetz), *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences* 120(7): e2219599120, February 2023. Press coverage: none "[Expectations-Based Loss Aversion May Help Explain Seemingly Dominated Choices in Strategy-Proof Mechanisms](https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mic.20200259)" (with Bnaya Dreyfuss and Ori Heffetz), *American Economic Journal: Microeconomics* 14(4): 515-555, November 2022. Press coverage: none "[Belief Movement, Uncertainty Reduction, and Rational Updating](https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/136/2/933/6127317)" (with Ned Augenblick), *Quarterly Journal of Economics* 136(2): 933-985, May 2021*.* Press coverage: none "[A Model of Relative Thinking](https://academic.oup.com/restud/article/88/1/162/5908529)" (with Ben Bushong and Joshua Schwartzstein), *Review of Economic Studies* 88(1): 162-191, January 2021*.* Press coverage: none "[An Experiment on Time Preference and Misprediction in Unpleasant Tasks](https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdy019)" (with Ned Augenblick), *Review of Economic Studies* 86(3): 941-975, May 2019. Press coverage: none "[Fretting About Modest Risks Is a Mistake](/file_url/144)" (with Max Bazerman), *California Management Review* 61(3): 34–48, May 2019. Press coverage: none "[Financial Markets Where Traders Neglect the Informational Content of Prices](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jofi.12729)" (with Erik Eyster and Dimitri Vayanos), *The Journal of Finance* 74(1):371-399, February 2019. Press coverage: none "[A Model of Non-Belief in the Law of Large Numbers](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jeea.12139/abstract)" (with Dan Benjamin and Collin Raymond), *Journal of the European Economic Association*, 14(2):515-544, April 2016. Press coverage: none "[Present Bias: Lessons Learned and To Be Learned](https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.p20151085)" (with Ted O'Donoghue), *American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings* 105(5), 273-279, May 2015. Press coverage: none "[Extensive Imitation is Irrational and Harmful](http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/129/4/1861)" (with Erik Eyster), *Quarterly Journal of Economics*, 129(4):1861-1898, December 2014. Press coverage: none "[Congested Observational Learning](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899825614001146)" (with Erik Eyster, Andrea Galeotti, and Navin Kartik), *Games and Economic Behavior*, 87:519-538, September 2014. Press coverage: none "[Conclusions Regarding Cross-Group Differences in Happiness Depend on Diffculty of Reaching Respondents](http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/aer.103.7.3001)," (with Ori Heffetz), *American Economic Review*, 103(7): 3001-21, December 2013. Press coverage: none "[Incorporating Limited Rationality into Economics](http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jel.51.2.528)", *Journal of Economic Literature*, 51(2): 528-43, June 2013. Press coverage: none “[An Approach to Incorporating Psychology into Economics"](https://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/aer.103.3.617), *American Economic Review*, 103(3): 617-22, May 2013 Press coverage: none "[Healthy Habits: Some Thoughts on The Role Of Public Policy in Healthful Eating and Exercise Under Limited Rationality](/file_url/100)," *Essays in Behavioral Public Policy*, edited by Adam Oliver, published by Oxford University Press. Press coverage: none "[Naïve Herding in Rich-Information Settings](/file_url/103)" (with Erik Eyster), *American Economic Journal: Microeconomics* 2, 221-243, November 2010. Press coverage: none "[The Gambler's and Hot-Hand Fallacies: Theory and Applications](/file_url/104)" (with Dimitri Vayanos), *Review of Economic Studies* 77(2), 730-778, April 2010. Press coverage: none "[Narrow Bracketing and Dominated Choices](/file_url/105)" (with Georg Weizsäcker), *American Economic Review* 99(4), 1508-1543, September 2009. Press coverage: none "[Reference-Dependent Consumption Plans](https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.99.3.909)" (with Botond Kőszegi), *American Economic Review* 99(3), 909-936, June 2009. Press coverage: none "[Choices, Situations, and Happiness](http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2008.03.010)" (with Botond Kőszegi), *Journal of Public Economics* 92(8-9), 1821-1832, August 2008. Press coverage: none "[Procrastination on Long-Term Projects](http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2006.05.005)" (with Ted O'Donoghue), *Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization* 66(2), 161-175, May 2008. Press coverage: none "Revealed Mistakes and Revealed Preferences" (with Botond Kőszegi), in *Methodologies of Modern Economics*, Andrew Caplin and Andrew Schotter, eds., 2008. Press coverage: none "[Reference-Dependent Risk Attitudes](https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.97.4.1047)" (with Botond Kőszegi), *American Economic Review* 97(4), 1047-1073, September 2007. Press coverage: none "Incentives and Self Control" (with Ted O'Donoghue), in Richard Blundell, Whitney Newey, and Torsten Persson, eds., *Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications* (Ninth World Congress), Cambridge University Press, August 2007. Press coverage: none "[Mistakes in Choice-Based Welfare Analysis](http://www.jstor.org/stable/30034498)" (with Botond Kőszegi), *American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings* 97(2), 477-481, May 2007. Press coverage: none "[Optimal Sin Taxes](http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2006.03.001)" (with Ted O'Donoghue), *Journal of Public Economics* 90 (10-11), 1825-1849, November 2006. Press coverage: none "[A Model of Reference-Dependent Preferences](http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/121/4/1133.abstract)" (with Botond Kőszegi), *Quarterly Journal of Economics* 1221(4), 1133-1165, November 2006. Press coverage: none "[The Experimental Study of Social Preferences](https://www.jstor.org/stable/40971830)," *Social Research* 73(2), 405-428, Summer 2006 Press coverage: none "[Expressed Preferences and Behavior in Experimental Games](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899825604001551)" (with Gary Charness), *Games and Economic Behavior* 53(2): 151-169, November 2005 Press coverage: none "[Cursed Equilibrium](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-0262.2005.00631.x)" (with Erik Eyster), *Econometrica* 73(5), 1623-1672, September 2005 Press coverage: none "[Projection Bias in Predicting Future Utility](http://www.jstor.org/stable/25053938)" (with George Loewenstein and Ted O'Donoghue), *Quarterly Journal of Economics* 118(4), November 2003, 1209-1248. Press coverage: none "[The Nobel Memorial Prize for Daniel Kahneman](http://www.jstor.org/stable/3441039)" *Scandanavian Journal of Economics* 105(2): 157-280, 2003 Press coverage: none "[Studying Optimal Paternalism, Illustrated with a Model of Sin Taxes](http://www.jstor.org/stable/3132222)" (with Ted O'Donoghue), *American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings* 93(2), May 2003, 186-191. Press coverage: none "[Regulation for Conservatives: Behavioral Economics and the Case for "Asymmetric Paternalism,](http://www.jstor.org/stable/3312889)" (with Colin Camerer, Samuel Issacharoff, George Loewenstein, Ted O'Donoghue), *University of Pennsylvania Law Review* 151(3), January 2003, 1211-1254 Press coverage: none "[Self Awareness and Self Control](/file_url/106)" (with Ted O'Donoghue), in Roy Baumeister, George Loewenstein, and Daniel Read (eds.), *Time and Decision: Economic and Psychological Perspectives on Intertemporal Choice*, Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2003. Press coverage: none "[Understanding Social Preferences with Simple Tests](http://www.jstor.org/stable/4132490)" (with Gary Charness), *Quarterly Journal of Economics* 117(3), August 2002, 817-869. Press coverage: none "[Inference by Believers in the Law of Small Numbers](http://www.jstor.org/stable/4132489)," *Quarterly Journal of Economics* 117(3), August 2002, 775-816. Press coverage: none "['Defending Expected Utility Theory' -Response](http://www.jstor.org/stable/2696507)" (with Richard Thaler), *Journal of Economic Perspectives*, Spring 2002, 229-230. Press coverage: none "[A Perspective on Psychology and Economics](http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0014-2921(01)00207-0)," *European Economic Review* 46(4-5), May 2002, 657-685. Press coverage: none "[Anomalies: Risk Aversion](http://www.jstor.org/stable/2696549)" (with Richard Thaler), *Journal of Economic Perspectives* 15(1), Winter 2001, 219-232. Press coverage: none "[Choice and Procrastination](http://www.jstor.org/stable/2696445)" (with Ted O'Donoghue), *Quarterly Journal of Economics*, February 2001, 121-160. Press coverage: none "[Risky Behavior Among Youths: Some Issues from Behavioral Economics](http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028&context=iber/econ)" (with Ted O'Donoghue), in Jon Gruber, editor, *Youthful Risky Behavior: An Economic Perspective*, University of Chicago Press and NBER, 2000. Press coverage: none "[Diminishing Marginal Utility of Wealth Cannot Explain Risk Aversion](http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1025&context=iber/econ)," chapter in *Choices, Values, and Frames*, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, editors, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 202-208. Press coverage: none "[The Economics of Immediate Gratification](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0771(200004/06)13:2<233::AID-BDM325>3.0.CO;2-U)" (with Ted O'Donoghue), Journal of *Behavioral Decision Making* 13(2), 233-250, 2000. Press coverage: none "[Risk Aversion and Expected-Utility Theory: A Calibration Theorem](http://www.jstor.org/stable/2999450)," *Econometrica* 68(5), 1281-1292, September 2000. Press coverage: none "[Choice Bracketing](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1007879411489)" (with Daniel Read and George Loewenstein), *Journal of Risk and Uncertainty* 19(1-3), 171-197, December 1999. Press coverage: none "[Comment on `What Me Worry? A Psychological Perspective on Economic Aspects of Retirement,' by George Loewenstein, Drazen Prelec, and Roberto Weber](http://www.brookings.edu/research/books/1999/retirement)," in *Behavioral Dimensions of Retirement Economics*, Henry Aaron, editor, The Brookings Institution, 1999. Press coverage: none "[Procrastination in Preparing for Retirement](http://www.brookings.edu/research/books/1999/retirement)" (with Ted O'Donoghue), in *Behavioral Dimensions of Retirement Economics*, Henry Aaron, editor, The Brookings Institution, 1999. Press coverage: none "[Addiction and Self Control](/file_url/101)" (with Ted O'Donoghue), in *Addiction: Entries and Exits*, Jon Elster, editor, Russell Sage Foundation, 1999. Press coverage: none "[Incentives for Procrastinators](http://www.jstor.org/stable/2586884)" (with Ted O'Donoghue), *Quarterly Journal of Economics* 114(3), 769-816, August 1999. Press coverage: none "[Doing It Now or Later](http://www.jstor.org/stable/116981)" (with Ted O'Donoghue), *American Economic Review* 89(1), 103-124, March 1999. Press coverage: none "[Loss Aversion in a Consumption-Savings Model](http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0167-2681(99)00004-9)" (with David Bowman and Deborah Minehart), *Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization* 38(2), 155-178, February 1999. Press coverage: none "[First Impressions Matter: A Model of Confirmatory Bias](http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/114/1/37.short)" (with Joel Schrag), *Quarterly Journal of Economics* 114(1), 37-82, February 1999. Press coverage: none "[Psychology and Economics](http://www.jstor.org/stable/2564950)," *Journal of Economic Literature* 36, 11-46, March 1998. [Abstract](/pepaper.html) Press coverage: none "[Review of Arrow, K., Colombatto, E., Perlman, M. and Schmidt, C. (eds.), The Rational Foundations of Economic Behaviour, Macmillan Press Ltd, 1996](http://www.jstor.org/stable/2729888)," *Journal of Economic Literature* 35(4), 2045-2046, December 1997. Press coverage: none "[Cheap Talk](http://www.jstor.org/stable/2138522)" (with Joseph Farrell), *Journal of Economic Perspectives* 10(3), 103-118, Summer 1996. Press coverage: none "[Deviations, Dynamics, and Equilibrium Refinements](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022053196900010)" (with Joel Sobel), *Journal of Economic Theory* 68(1), 1- 25, January 1996. Press coverage: none "Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky," in Warren Samuels (ed.), *American Economists of the Late Twentieth Century*, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 1996, pp. 111-137. Press coverage: none "[A Model of Pre-Game Communication](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022053184710477),"*Journal of Economic Theory* 63, 370-391, August 1994. Press coverage: none "Incorporating Behavioral Assumptions into Game Theory," in James Friedman (ed.), *Problems of Coordination in Economic Activity*, Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994. Press coverage: none "[Cognitive Dissonance and Social Change](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0167268194900663)," *Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization* 23, 177-194, 1994. Press coverage: none "[Incorporating Fairness into Game Theory and Economics](http://www.jstor.org/stable/2117561)," *American Economic Review* 83, 1281-1302, December 1993. Press coverage: none "[Information and the Control of Productive Assets](http://jleo.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/9/1/51.pdf)," *Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization* 9, 51-75, April 1993. Press coverage: none "Trends in British Health Inequalities, 1931-1983," (with Julian Le Grand), in A.J. Culyer and Bengt Jonsson, editors, *Public and Private Health Services*, Basil Blackwell, 1986. Press coverage: none "[Communication between Rational Agents](http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0022-0531(90)90055-O)," *Journal of Economic Theory* 51, 144-170, June 1990. (Corrigendum, 1992, Vol 58., pp. 110-1.) 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