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SUBMITTER: Chan DC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8992547 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chan David C DC Gentzkow Matthew M Yu Chuan C
The quarterly journal of economics 20220121 2
Physicians, judges, teachers, and agents in many other settings differ systematically in the decisions they make when faced with similar cases. Standard approaches to interpreting and exploiting such differences assume they arise solely from variation in preferences. We develop an alternative framework that allows variation in preferences and diagnostic skill and show that both dimensions may be partially identified in standard settings under quasi-random assignment. We apply this framework to s ...[more]