Economics: Research Area — Prolific Citations Library

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Papers (13 of 13)

The effect of popularity cues and peer endorsements on assertive social media ads

Authors: A Agarwal, SY Lee

Year: 2025

Published in: Information Systems ..., 2025 - pubsonline.informs.org

Institution: University of Texas

Research Area: Information Systems, Behavioral Economics, Social Media Marketing, Advertising

Discipline: Information Systems Research, Marketing, Behavioral Science

This academic article explores a specific topic within the field of Information Systems Research.

Citations: 14
On Human Factors in Machine Fairness: Essays in Behavioral Economics

Authors: AC Wömmel

Year: 2025

Published in: 2025 - ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de

Institution: University of Hamburg

Research Area: Machine Fairness, Behavioral Economics, Human-Machine Interaction

Discipline: Behavioral Economics, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Machine Interaction

Human behavior can undermine fairness interventions in AI, amplify inequalities, and reinforce socioeconomic disparities, emphasizing the need to integrate behavioral mechanisms into AI governance.

Methods: The dissertation utilized three empirical approaches: (i) deliberation experiments with UK participants using NLP analysis, (ii) online hiring experiments testing algorithmic fairness interventions, and (iii) panel data analysis of German households measuring digital skills and confidence levels.

Key Findings: Public attitudes towards AI, the adoption of fairness interventions in algorithmic tools, and socioeconomic disparities in digital skills and confidence.

Citations: 1
The impact of the cost of living crisis and food insecurity on food purchasing behaviours and food preparation practices in people living with obesity

Authors: RA Stone, A Brown, F Douglas, M Green, E Hunter, M Lonnie, AM Johnstone, CA Hardman, FIO-Food Team

Year: 2024

Published in: Science Direct

Institution: Robert Gordon University, University College London, University of Aberdeen, University of Liverpool

Research Area: Food Insecurity, Public Health, Behavioral Economics (focusing on food purchasing behaviors and preparation practices related to obesity, cost of living)

Discipline: Public Health

The study examines how the UK cost of living crisis affects food purchasing and preparation behaviors in people with obesity, highlighting food insecurity and associated coping strategies, and calls for policy interventions to improve access to healthy foods.

Methods: An online survey was conducted with self-reported data on food insecurity, diet quality, cost of living impact, and food purchasing/preparation behaviors among adults with BMI ≥30 kg/m2 in England or Scotland.

Key Findings: Food insecurity, diet quality, impacts of the cost of living crisis, food purchasing behaviors, and food preparation practices among participants.

Citations: 46

Sample Size: 583
Social preferences toward humans and machines: a systematic experiment on the role of machine payoffs

Authors: A von Schenk, V Klockmann

Year: 2024

Published in: ... on Psychological Science, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com

Institution: Max Planck Institute

Research Area: Social Preferences, Behavioral Economics, Human-Machine Interaction

Discipline: Behavioral Science

Humans exhibit stronger social preferences toward machines when they know machine payoffs benefit a human recipient, and weak preferences when payoff information is absent, suggesting belief formation is self-serving.

Methods: Conducted an online experiment with participants and follow-up surveys to compare the impact of different implementations of machine payoffs and information transparency on social preferences.

Key Findings: Social preferences and reciprocity behaviors toward machines with varying payoff structures and transparency about the beneficiaries.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231194949

Citations: 40

Sample Size: 1198
The consequences of AI training on human decision-making

Authors: LS Treiman, CJ Ho, W Kool

Year: 2024

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of ..., 2024 - pnas.org

Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, Washington University in St. Louis

Research Area: AI Ethics, Behavioral Economics, Decision-Making in AI Systems

Discipline: Artificial Intelligence, Behavioral Science

People alter their behavior when they know their actions will train AI, leading to unintentional habits and biased training data for AI systems.

Methods: Five studies were conducted using the ultimatum game; participants were tasked with deciding on monetary splits proposed by either humans or AI, with some informed their decisions would train the AI.

Key Findings: Behavioral changes in participants when training AI, persistence of these changes over time, and implications for AI training bias.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2408731121

Citations: 13
Underreporting of AI use: The role of social desirability bias

Authors: Y Ling, A Kale, A Imas

Year: 2024

Published in: Available at SSRN 5464215, 2025 - papers.ssrn.com

Institution: University of Chicago

Research Area: Behavioral Economics, AI Adoption, AI Disclosure

Discipline: Behavioral Economics

Citations: 7
Beyond AI Exposure: Which Tasks are Cost-Effective to Automate with Computer Vision?

Authors: M Svanberg, W Li, M Fleming, B Goehring, N Thompson

Year: 2024

Published in: SSRN

Institution: IBM Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Productivity Institute, CSAIL

Research Area: Computer Vision, Economics of IT, Deep Learning Systems

Discipline: Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI Triggers Welfare-Reducing Decisions in Humans

Authors: Fabian Dvorak, Regina Stumpf, Sebastian Fehrler, Urs Fischbacher

Year: 2024

Published in: ArXiv

Institution: University of Konstanz

Research Area: Generative AI and Human Decision-Making, Behavioral Economics

Discipline: Artificial Intelligence, Behavioral Economics
Occupational prestige and occupational social value in the United Kingdom: New indices for the modern British economy

Authors: G Newlands, C Lutz

Year: 2024

Published in: Science Direct

Institution: BI Norwegian Business School, University of Oxford

Research Area: Occupational Sociology, Labor Economics

Discipline: Sociology
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics

Authors: N Gupta

Year: 2023

Published in: 2023 - search.proquest.com

Institution: University of California San Diego

Research Area: Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Dynamic Decision Environments

Discipline: Behavioral Economics

Citations: 1
Perceived risks and benefits of Artificial Intelligence: A behavioral economics approach

Authors: V Kraft

Year: 2023

Published in: 2023 - lup.lub.lu.se

Research Area: Perceived Risks and Benefits of AI, Behavioral Economics

Discipline: Behavioral Economics, Artificial Intelligence

DOI: http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/9118081
Social Dynamics of AI Adoption

Authors: L Bursztyn, A Imas, R Jiménez-Durán, A Leonard

Year: 2022

Published in: 2025 - nber.org

Institution: University of Chicago, National Bureau of Economic Research, Booth School of Business, Bocconi University, Stanford University

Research Area: Behavioral Economics, Social Dynamics of Technology Adoption

Discipline: Behavioral Economics

Citations: 2
The managerial effects of algorithmic fairness activism

Authors: B Cowgill, F Dell'Acqua, S Matz

Year: 2020

Published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020 - aeaweb.org

Institution: Columbia University, Harvard Business School

Research Area: Algorithmic Fairness in Management, Economics

Discipline: Economics

Citations: 34