dc.contributor.author | Dwenger, Nadja | de |
dc.contributor.author | Kübler, Dorothea | de |
dc.contributor.author | Weizsäcker, Georg | de |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-02T10:22:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-01-02T10:22:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | de |
dc.identifier.issn | 1879-2316 | de |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/65884 | |
dc.description.abstract | We empirically investigate the possibility that a decision maker prefers to avoid making a decision and instead delegates it to an external device, e.g., a coin flip. A large data set from the centralized clearinghouse for university admissions in Germany shows a choice pattern of applicants that is consistent with coin flipping and that entails substantial consequences for the matching outcome. In a series of experiments capturing the relevant features of university choice, participants often choose lotteries between allocations rather than certain allocations. This contradicts most theories of choice such as expected utility. A survey among university applicants links their choices to the experiments and confirms that the choice of random allocations is intentional. | de |
dc.language | en | de |
dc.subject.ddc | Wirtschaft | de |
dc.subject.ddc | Economics | en |
dc.subject.other | individual decision making; matching markets; preference for randomization; university admissions | de |
dc.title | Flipping a coin: evidence from university applications | de |
dc.description.review | begutachtet (peer reviewed) | de |
dc.description.review | peer reviewed | en |
dc.source.journal | Journal of Public Economics | |
dc.publisher.country | NLD | |
dc.source.issue | 167 | de |
dc.subject.classoz | Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Wirtschaftswissenschaften | de |
dc.subject.classoz | Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Economics | en |
dc.rights.licence | Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0 | de |
dc.rights.licence | Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 | en |
ssoar.contributor.institution | WZB | de |
internal.status | formal und inhaltlich fertig erschlossen | de |
dc.type.stock | article | de |
dc.type.document | Zeitschriftenartikel | de |
dc.type.document | journal article | en |
dc.source.pageinfo | 240-250 | de |
internal.identifier.classoz | 10901 | |
internal.identifier.journal | 1666 | |
internal.identifier.document | 32 | |
internal.identifier.ddc | 330 | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.09.014 | de |
dc.description.pubstatus | Postprint | de |
dc.description.pubstatus | Postprint | en |
internal.identifier.licence | 20 | |
internal.identifier.pubstatus | 2 | |
internal.identifier.review | 1 | |
internal.dda.reference | https://www.econstor.eu/oai/request@@oai:econstor.eu:10419/209666 | |
dc.identifier.handle | https://hdl.handle.net/10419/209666 | |
ssoar.urn.registration | false | de |