作者：Schlenker, Wolfram; Walker, W. Reed
作者单位：Columbia University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：We link daily air pollution exposure to measures of contemporaneous health for communities surrounding the twelve largest airports in California. These airports are some of the largest sources of air pollution in the US, and they experience large changes in daily air pollution emissions depending on the amount of time planes spend idling on the tarmac. Excess airplane idling, measured as residual daily taxi time, is due to network delays originating in the Eastern US. This idiosyncratic variat...
作者：Augenblick, Ned; Nicholson, Scott
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：In this article, we examine the effect of choice fatigue on decision making. We exploit a natural experiment in which voters face the same contest at different ballot positions due to differences in the number of local issues on their ballot. Facing more decisions before a given contest significantly increases the tendency to abstain or rely on decision shortcuts, such as voting for the status quo or the first-listed candidate. We estimate that, without choice fatigue, abstentions would decrea...
