3 papers
econ.GN2026
The Joneses Visit an Economics Lab
Mikhail Freer, Daniel Friedman, Christian Ghiglino +1
Existing literature offers persuasive evidence that individuals care about how their consumption compares to that of peers, and proposes a large variety of explanatory models. The…
econ.GN2026
Experimental School Choice with Parents
Mikhail Freer, Thilo Klein, Josué Ortega
We conduct the first laboratory school choice experiment in which parents-the relevant decision makers in the field-are the experimental subjects. We compare Deferred Acceptance (D…
econ.TH2024
On the Welfare (Ir)Relevance of Two-Stage Models
Mikhail Freer, Hassan Nosratabadi
In a two-stage model of choice a decision maker first shortlists a given menu and then applies her preferences. We show that a sizeable class of these models run into significant i…