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Anabolic Persuasion
Kfir Eliaz, Ran Spiegler
We present a model of optimal training of a rational, sluggish agent. A trainer commits to a discrete-time, finite-state Markov process that governs the evolution of training inten…
Shoiuld Humans Lie to Machines: The Incentive Compatibility of Lasso and General Weighted Lasso
Mehmet Caner, Kfir Eliaz
We consider situations where a user feeds her attributes to a machine learning method that tries to predict her best option based on a random sample of other users. The predictor i…
Cheating with (Recursive) Models
Kfir Eliaz, Ran Spiegler, Yair Weiss
To what extent can agents with misspecified subjective models predict false correlations? We study an "analyst" who utilizes models that take the form of a recursive system of line…
A Model of Competing Narratives
Kfir Eliaz, Ran Spiegler
We formalize the argument that political disagreements can be traced to a "clash of narratives". Drawing on the "Bayesian Networks" literature, we model a narrative as a causal mod…
The Model Selection Curse
Kfir Eliaz, Ran Spiegler
A "statistician" takes an action on behalf of an agent, based on the agent's self-reported personal data and a sample involving other people. The action that he takes is an estimat…