JEL classification

Journal of Economic Literature Classification (10696) D - Microeconomics (2307) D9 - Intertemporal Choice and Growth (156) D91 - Intertemporal Consumer Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving (83)
Number of items at this level: 83.
Article
  • Ahsanuzzaman, Eskander, Shaikh, Islam, Asad, Wang, Liang Choon (2024). Non-price energy conservation information and household energy consumption in a developing country: evidence from an RCT. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 127, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2024.103022 picture_as_pdf
  • Ameil, Yoram, Cowell, Frank, Davidovitz, Liema, Polovin, Avraham (2008). Preference reversals and the analysis of income distributions. Social Choice and Welfare, 30(2), 305-330. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-007-0234-3
  • Amior, Michael, Halket, Jonathan (2014). Do households use home-ownership to insure themselves? Evidence across U.S. cities. Quantitative Economics, 5(3), 631-674. https://doi.org/10.3982/QE346
  • An, Li, Lou, Dong, Shi, Donghui (2022). Wealth redistribution in bubbles and crashes. Journal of Monetary Economics, 126, 134 - 153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2022.01.001 picture_as_pdf
  • Arulsamy, Karen, Delaney, Liam (2022). The impact of automatic enrolment on the mental health gap in pension participation: evidence from the UK. Journal of Health Economics, 86, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2022.102673 picture_as_pdf
  • Ashkenazi-Golan, Galit, Karos, Dominik, Lehrer, Ehud (2025). A taste for variety. Games and Economic Behavior, 152, 396 - 422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2025.05.003 picture_as_pdf
  • Battiston, Diego, Blanes I Vidal, Jordi, Hortala-Vallve, Rafael, Lou, Dong (2025). The effect of advisors' incentives on clients' investments. Journal of Finance, picture_as_pdf
  • Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten (2023). The political economics of green transitions. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 138(3), 1863 - 1906. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjad006 picture_as_pdf
  • Boehm, Johannes, Fize, Étienne, Jaravel, Xavier (2025). Five facts about MPCs: evidence from a randomized experiment. American Economic Review, 115(1), 1 - 42. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20240138 picture_as_pdf
  • Boudreau, Laura, Macchiavello, Rocco, Minni, Virginia, Tanaka, Mari (2025). Leaders in social movements: evidence from unions in Myanmar. American Economic Review, 115(6), 1975 - 2000. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20230758 picture_as_pdf
  • Brañas-Garza, Pablo, Chowdhury, Subhasish M., Espín, Antonio M., Nieboer, Jeroen (2023). Born this way? Prenatal exposure to testosterone may determine behavior in competition and conflict. Journal of Economic Psychology, 96, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2023.102623 picture_as_pdf
  • Callen, Michael (2015). Catastrophes and time preference: Evidence from the Indian Ocean Earthquake. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 118, 199-214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2015.02.019
  • Cantoni, Davide, Heizlsperger, Louis-Jonas, Yang, David Y., Yuchtman, Noam, Zhang, Y. Jane (2022). The fundamental determinants of protest participation: evidence from Hong Kong’s antiauthoritarian movement. Journal of Public Economics, 211, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2022.104667 picture_as_pdf
  • Carroll, James, Denny, Eleanor, Lyons, Ronan C., Petrov, Ivan (2024). Better energy cost information changes household property investment decisions: Evidence from a nationwide experiment. Energy Economics, 139, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2024.107909 picture_as_pdf
  • Chassang, Sylvain, Padró i Miquel, Gerard (2010). Savings and predation. Journal of the European Economic Association, 8(2-3), 645-654. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-4774.2010.tb00534.x
  • Choi, Darwin, Lou, Dong, Mukherjee, Abhiroop (2024). Superstar firms and college major choice. Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, https://doi.org/10.1086/736929 picture_as_pdf
  • Choukhmane, Taha, Coeurdacier, Nicolas, Jin, Keyu (2023). The one-child policy and household saving. Journal of the European Economic Association, 21(3), 987 - 1032. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvad001 picture_as_pdf
  • Dannenberg, Astrid, Dini, Giorgio, Tavoni, Alessandro, Weingaertner, Eva (2026). Food choice with increased visibility - a field experiment at an environmental economics conference. Ecological Economics, 240, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108816 picture_as_pdf
  • De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, Fowler, James H. (2014). Credit card borrowing and the monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) gene. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 107, 428-439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2014.03.002
  • De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, Imbert, Clement, Spinnewijn, Johannes, Tsankova, Teodora, Luts, Maarten (2021). How to improve tax compliance? Evidence from population-wide experiments in Belgium. European Journal of Political Economy, 129(5), 1425 - 1463. https://doi.org/10.1086/713096 picture_as_pdf
  • Dechezlepretre, Antoine, Fabre, Adrien, Kruse, Tobias, Planterose, Bluebery, Sanchez Chico, Ana, Stantcheva, Stefanie (2025). Fighting climate change: international attitudes toward climate policies. American Economic Review, 115(4), 1258 - 1300. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20230501 picture_as_pdf
  • Ellis, Andrew, Freeman, David J. (2024). Revealing choice bracketing. American Economic Review, 114(9), 2668 - 2700. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20210877 picture_as_pdf
  • Eyring, Henry, Narayanan, V.G. (2018). Performance effects of setting a high reference point for peer-performance comparison. Journal of Accounting Research, 56(2), 581 - 615. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-679X.12199
  • Eyster, Erik, Madarász, Kristóf, Michaillat, Pascal (2020). Pricing under fairness concerns. Journal of the European Economic Association, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvaa041 picture_as_pdf
  • Fang, Hanming, Gavazza, Alessandro (2011). Dynamic inefficiencies in an employment-based health insurance system: theory and evidence. American Economic Review, 101(7), 3047-3077. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.101.7.3047
  • Fankhauser, Samuel, Sjtol, Richard (2005). On climate change and economic growth. Resources and Energy Economics, 27(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2004.03.003
  • Fernández, José-Luis, Forder, Julien (2012). Reforming long-term care funding arrangements in England: international lessons. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 34(2), 346-362. https://doi.org/10.1093/aepp/pps020
  • Gaertner, Wulf (2011). Evaluating sets of objects in characteristics space. Social Choice and Welfare, 39(2-3), 303-321. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-011-0605-7
  • Galizzi, Matteo M., Miraldo, Marisa, Stavropoulou, Charitini, van der Pol, Marjon (2016). Doctor–patient differences in risk and time preferences: a field experiment. Journal of Health Economics, 50, 171-182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2016.10.001
  • Galizzi, Matteo M., W. Lau, Krystal, Miraldo, Marisa, Hauck, Katharina (2022). Bandwagoning, free-riding and heterogeneity in influenza vaccine decisions: an online experiment. Health Economics (United Kingdom), 31(4), 614 - 646. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4467 picture_as_pdf
  • Gandelman, Néstor (2016). A comparison of saving rates: microdata evidence from seventeen Latin American and Caribbean countries. Economía, 16(2), 201 - 258. https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.81 picture_as_pdf
  • Ghatak, Maitreesh, Wahhaj, Zaki (2025). Motivational investments and financial incentives. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, https://doi.org/10.1093/jleo/ewaf008 picture_as_pdf
  • Gmeiner, Michael, Gschwandtner, Adelina (2025). The value of pets: the quantifiable impact of pets on life satisfaction. Social Indicators Research, 178(1), 185 - 223. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-025-03574-1 picture_as_pdf
  • Gottlieb, Daniel, Smetters, Kent (2021). Lapse-based insurance. American Economic Review, 111(8), 2377 - 2416. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20160868 picture_as_pdf
  • Green, Maia, Kothari, Uma, Mercer, Claire, Mitlin, Diana (2012). Saving, spending, and future-making: time, discipline, and money in development. Environment and Planning A, 44(7), 1641-1656. https://doi.org/10.1068/a44640
  • Guttman-Kenney, Benedict, Adams, Paul, Hunt, Stefan, Laibson, David, Stewart, Neil, Leary, Jesse (2025). The semblance of success in nudging consumers to pay down credit card debt. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 17(4), 72 - 105. https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20230568
  • Hajivassiliou, Vassilis, Ioannides, Yannis (1996). Duality and liquidity constraints under uncertainty. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 20(6-7), 1177-1192. https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-1889(95)00894-2
  • Jiang, Zhengyang, Liu, Hongqi, Peng, Cameron, Yan, Hongjun (2025). Investor memory and biased beliefs: evidence from the field. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 140(4), 2749 – 2804. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjaf035 picture_as_pdf
  • Jiang, Zhengyang, Peng, Cameron, Yan, Hongjun (2024). Personality differences and investment decision-making. Journal of Financial Economics, 153, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2023.103776 picture_as_pdf
  • Lades, Leonhard K., Zawojska, Ewa, Johnston, Robert J., Hanley, Nick, Delaney, Liam, Czajkowski, Mikołaj (2025). Anomalies or expected behaviors? Understanding stated preferences and welfare implications in light of contemporary behavioral economics. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 19(1), 48 - 68. https://doi.org/10.1086/732191
  • Lagarde, Mylène, Riumallo Herl, Carlos (2025). Better together? Group incentives and the demand for prevention. Journal of Development Economics, 172, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103365 picture_as_pdf
  • Levy, Matthew, Tasoff, Joshua (2016). Exponential-growth bias and lifecycle consumption. Journal of the European Economic Association, 14(3), 545 - 583. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeea.12149 picture_as_pdf
  • Lohmann, Paul M., Gsottbauer, Elisabeth, You, Jing, Kontoleon, Andreas (2023). Anti-social behaviour and economic decision-making: panel experimental evidence in the wake of COVID-19. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 206, 136 - 171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.12.007 picture_as_pdf
  • Lopes, Paula (2008). Credit card debt and default over the life cycle. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 40(4), 769-790. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1538-4616.2008.00135.x
  • Lopes, Paula, Michaelides, Alexander (2007). Rare events and annuity market participation. Finance Research Letters, 4(2), 82-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2006.12.001
  • Ludvigson, Sydney C., Michaelides, Alexander (2001). Does buffer stock saving explain the smoothness and excess sensitivity of consumption? American Economic Review, 91(3), 631-647. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.91.3.631
  • Mattauch, Linus, Hepburn, Cameron, Spuler, Fiona, Stern, Nicholas (2022). The economics of climate change with endogenous preferences. Resources and Energy Economics, 69, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2022.101312 picture_as_pdf
  • Michaelides, Alexander (2003). A reconciliation of two alternative approaches towards buffer stock saving. Economics Letters, 79(1), 137-143.
  • Mills, Stuart (2025). Being good and doing good in behavioral policymaking. Public Administration Review, 85(5), 1332 - 1346. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13908 picture_as_pdf
  • Oliver, Adam (2023). A little give and take. LSE Public Policy Review, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.31389/lseppr.36 picture_as_pdf
  • Palacios-Huerta, Ignacio, Parkes, David C., Steinberg, Richard (2024). Combinatorial auctions in practice. Journal of Economic Literature, 62(2), 517 - 553. https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.20221679 picture_as_pdf
  • Pearcy, Pauline (2025). Status incentive and peer spillover effects on physical activity habits. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 239, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107270 picture_as_pdf
  • Prati, Alberto, Saucet, Charlotte (2025). Is motivated memory (just) a matter of mood? Experimental Economics, https://doi.org/10.1017/eec.2025.10028 picture_as_pdf
  • Prati, Alberto, Saucet, Charlotte (2024). The causal effect of a health treatment on beliefs, stated preferences and memories. Journal of Health Economics, 94, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2024.102864 picture_as_pdf
  • Robson, Arthur J., Szentes, Balázs (2008). Evolution of time preference by natural selection: comment. American Economic Review, 98(3), 1178-1188. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.98.3.1178
  • Robson, Arthur J., Szentes, Balázs (2014). A biological theory of social discounting. American Economic Review, 104(11), 3481-3497. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.104.11.3481
  • Romano, Alessandro, Sotis, Chiara, Dominioni, Goran, Guidi, Sebastián (2020). The scale of COVID-19 graphs affects understanding, attitudes, and policy preferences. Health Economics, 29(11), 1482 - 1494. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4143 picture_as_pdf
  • Sejas-Portillo, Rodolfo, Moro, Mirko, Stowasser, Till (2025). The simpler the better? Threshold effects of energy labels on property prices and energy efficiency investments. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 17(1), 41 - 89. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20220329
  • Thomas, Ranjeeta, Galizzi, Matteo M., Moorhouse, Louisa, Nyamukapa, Constance, Hallett, Timothy B. (2024). Do risk, time and prosocial preferences predict risky sexual behaviour of youths in a low-income, high-risk setting? Journal of Health Economics, 93, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102845 picture_as_pdf
    • Working paper
  • Azmat, Ghazala, Kaufmann, Katja (2021). Formation of college plans: expected returns, preferences and adjustment process. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1765). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Banerjee, Sanchayan, Galizzi, Matteo M., John, Peter, Mourato, Susana (2022). What works best in promoting climate citizenship? A randomised, systematic evaluation of nudge, think, boost and nudge+. (Geography and Environment Discussion Paper Series 32). Department of Geography and Environment, LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Boehm, Johannes, Fize, Etienne, Jaravel, Xavier (2024). Five facts about MPCs: evidence from a randomized experiment. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1998). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Bradford, W. David, Dolan, Paul, Galizzi, Matteo M. (2014). Looking ahead: subjective time perception and individual discounting. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1255). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Carattini, Stefano, Gillingham, Kenneth T., Meng, Xiangyu, Yoeli, Erez (2022). Peer-to-peer solar and social rewards: evidence from a field experiment. (CCCEP Working Paper 408). Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy. picture_as_pdf
  • Carattini, Stefano, Gillingham, Kenneth T., Meng, Xiangyu, Yoeli, Erez (2022). Peer-to-peer solar and social rewards: evidence from a field experiment. (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper 383). Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Carozzi, Felipe, Pinchbeck, Edward William, Repetto, Luca (2023). Scars of war: the legacy of WW1 deaths on civic capital and combat motivation. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1940). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Chen, Xiaoguang, Huang, Hanwei, Ju, Jiandong, Sun, Ruoyan, Zhang, Jialiang (2024). Endogenous mobility in pandemics: theory and evidence from the United States. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1981). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, Imbert, Clement, Spinnewijn, Johannes, Tsankova, Teodora, Luts, Maarten (2019). How to improve tax compliance? Evidence from population-wide experiments in Belgium. (CEP Discussion Papers 1621). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Genakos, Christos, Roumanias, Costas, Valletti, Tommaso (2023). Is having an expert "friend" enough? An analysis of consumer switching behavior in mobile telephony. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1939). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Gesiarz, Filip, De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel C J M, Sharot, Tali (2019). The motivational cost of inequality: pay gaps reduce the willingness to pursue rewards. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1664). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • González, Libertad, Özcan, Berkay (2008). The risk of divorce and household saving behavior. (Discussion Paper Series 3726). Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  • Karagiannaki, Eleni (2009). The effect of health on consumption decisions in later life: evidence from the UK. (CASEpapers CASE/136). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion.
  • Karagiannaki, Eleni (2011). The magnitude and correlates of inter-vivos transfers in the UK. (CASEpapers 151). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion.
  • Lopes, Paula (2003). Credit card debt and default over the life-cycle. (Financial Markets Group Discussion Papers 470). Financial Markets Group, The London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Luttmer, Erzo G. J., Mariotti, Thomas (2003). Efficiency and equilibrium when preferences are time-inconsistent. (TE 446). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Manacorda, Marco, Tabellini, Guido, Tesei, Andrea (2022). Mobile internet and the rise of political tribalism in Europe. (CEP Discussion Papers 1877). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Marino, Maria, Iacono, Roberto, Mollerstrom, Johanna (2023). (Mis-)perceptions, information, and political polarization. (III Working Paper 90). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.vhrfafvh9uv2 picture_as_pdf
  • Mele, Antonio (2004). General properties of rational stock-market fluctuations. (Financial Markets Group Discussion Papers 489). Financial Markets Group, The London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Perets, Gadi S., Yashiv, Eran (2015). The fundamental nature of HARA utility. (CFM discussion paper series CFM-DP2015-22). Centre For Macroeconomics.
  • Picard, Julien, Banerjee, Sanchayan (2023). Behavioural spillovers unpacked: estimating the side effects of social norm nudges. (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper 402). Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Santos, Indhira, Petroska-Beska, Violeta, Carneiro, Pedro, Eskreis-Winkler, Lauren, Munoz Boudet, Ana Maria, Berneil, Ines, Krekel, Christian, Arias, Omar, Duckworth, Angela (2022). Can grit be taught? Lessons from a nationwide field experiment with middle-school students. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1878). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Sejas-Portillo, Rodolfo (2023). The effect of weather on the willingness to pay for residential energy-efficiency. (Geography and Environment Discussion Paper Series 42). Department of Geography and Environment, LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Smith, Sarah (2005). Can the retirement-consumption puzzle be resolved?: evidence from the British Household Panel Survey. (Financial Markets Group Discussion Papers 528). Financial Markets Group, The London School of Economics and Political Science.