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Recovering Preferences from Finite Data
Christopher P. Chambers, Federico Echenique, Nicolas Lambert
We study preferences estimated from finite choice experiments and provide sufficient conditions for convergence to a unique underlying "true" preference. Our conditions are weak, a…
Spherical Preferences
Christopher P. Chambers, Federico Echenique
We introduce and study the property of orthogonal independence, a restricted additivity axiom applying when alternatives are orthogonal. The axiom requires that the preference for…
A characterization of "Phelpsian" statistical discrimination
Christopher P. Chambers, Federico Echenique
We establish that statistical discrimination is possible if and only if it is impossible to uniquely identify the signal structure observed by an employer from a realized empirical…
Preference Identification
Christopher P. Chambers, Federico Echenique, Nicolas S. Lambert
An experimenter seeks to learn a subject's preference relation. The experimenter produces pairs of alternatives. For each pair, the subject is asked to choose. We argue that, in ge…