Daniel Kahneman’s Underappreciated Last Published Paper: Empirical Implications for Benefit-Cost Analysis and a Chat Session Discussion with Bots
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Keywords
simulated dialogue with AI; social welfare weights; income satiation; well-being; adversarial collaboration; quantile regression; marginal utility;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
- H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HAP-2025-05-12 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-HPE-2025-05-12 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-PBE-2025-05-12 (Public Economics)
- NEP-UPT-2025-05-12 (Utility Models and Prospect Theory)
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