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Information Avoidance
* All three authors: Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University. We thank Joël van der Weele and three anonymous reviewers for comments. † Go to https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.20151245 to visit the article page and view author disclosure statement(s). one can, according to standard economic assumptions, ignore it at no cost. Consistent with standard theory, there are co...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Economic Literature
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0022-0515
DOI: 10.1257/jel.20151245