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Identifying Heterogeneous Decision Rules From Choices When Menus Are Unobserved

Larry G Epstein, Kaushil Patel

arXiv 15 May 2024 · Theoretical Economics

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Abstract

Given only aggregate choice data and limited information about how menus are distributed across the population, we describe what can be inferred robustly about the distribution of preferences (or more general decision rules). We strengthen and generalize existing results on such identification and provide an alternative analytical approach to study the problem. We show further that our model and results are applicable, after suitable reinterpretation, to other contexts. One application is to the robust identification of the distribution of updating rules given only the population distribution of beliefs and limited information about heterogeneous information sources.

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