My paper `Proxy Variables and Feedback Effects in Decision Making' is now forthcoming at Games and Economic Behavior. The paper builds a theoretical framework to study the naive use of potentially mismeasured data by economic decision makers. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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I’m on the job market this year! My #EconJMP explores how to design incentives for people with limited understanding of the causal effects of their actions. I consider the implications of a form of bounded rationality I call 'narrow inference' in a principal-agent screening model. (1/15)