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Overview

Ted O'Donoghue is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research spans multiple subfields including Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, Safety Research, Marketing, and Building and Construction.

Their work covers various topics, notably:

  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
  • Smart Parking Systems Research

O'Donoghue has published in several venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • American Economic Review
  • American Economic Journal Economic Policy

Recent publications include:

  • "Distinguishing Common Ratio Preferences from Common Ratio Effects Using Paired Valuation Tasks", 2024, American Economic Review
  • "Reminders Work, but for Whom? Evidence from New York City Parking Ticket Recipients", 2022, American Economic Journal Economic Policy
  • "Exploring Ambiguity Attitudes Across the Parameter Space in a Generalized Ellsberg Three-Color Problem", 2024, AEA Randomized Controlled Trials

Ted O'Donoghue has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Charles Sprenger, Christina McGranaghan, Kirby Nielsen, Jason Somerville, and Jack Adeney.

In addition to journal articles, O'Donoghue has contributed to book publications, including a title published through World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks: "Paying More for Less: Why Don't Households in Tanzania Take Advantage of Bulk Discounts?" (2020).

Best Publications

  • Time Discounting and Time Preference: A Critical Review

    Shane Frederick;George Loewenstein;Ted O'Donoghue

  • Doing It Now or Later

    Ted O'Donoghue;Matthew Rabin

  • Regulation for Conservatives: Behavioral Economics and the Case for Asymmetric Paternalism

    Colin Camerer;Samuel Issacharoff;George Loewenstein;Ted O'Donoghue

  • Projection Bias in Predicting Future Utility

    George Loewenstein;Ted O'Donoghue;Matthew Rabin

  • Choice and Procrastination

    Ted O'Donoghue;Matthew Rabin

  • Patent breadth, patent life, and the pace of technological progress

    Ted O'Donoghue;Suzanne Scotchmer;Jacques Thisse

  • Optimal sin taxes

    Ted O'Donoghue;Matthew Rabin

  • Incentives for Procrastinators

    Ted O'Donoghue;Matthew Rabin

  • The economics of immediate gratification

    Ted O'Donoghue;Matthew Rabin

  • The Nature of Risk Preferences: Evidence from Insurance Choices

    Levon Barseghyan;Francesca Molinari;Ted O'Donoghue;Joshua C. Teitelbaum

  • Studying Optimal Paternalism, Illustrated by a Model of Sin Taxes

    Ted O'Donoghue;Matthew Rabin

  • Animal Spirits: Affective and Deliberative Processes in Economic Behavior

    George Loewenstein;Ted O'Donoghue

  • A Patentability Requirement for Sequential Innovation

    Ted O'Donoghue

  • The norm of restaurant tipping

    Michael Conlin;Michael Lynn;Ted O’Donoghue

  • Projection Bias in Catalog Orders

    Michael Conlin;Ted O'Donoghue;Timothy J. Vogelsang

  • Present Bias: Lessons Learned and To Be Learned†

    Ted O'Donoghue;Matthew Rabin

  • Patents in a Model of Endogenous Growth

    Ted O'Donoghue;Josef Zweimüller

  • Procrastination in Preparing for Retirement

    Ted O’Donoghue

  • "We Can Do This the Easy Way or the Hard Way": Negative Emotions, Self-Regulation, and the Law

    George Loewenstein;Ted O'Donoghue

  • Risky Behavior Among Youths: Some Issues from Behavioral Economics

    Ted O'Donoghue;Matthew Rabin

  • Addiction and self-control

    Ted O'Donoghue;Matthew Rabin

Frequent Co-Authors

George Loewenstein
George Loewenstein Carnegie Mellon University
Corinna E. Löckenhoff
Corinna E. Löckenhoff Cornell University
Valerie F. Reyna
Valerie F. Reyna Cornell University
David Dunning
David Dunning University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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