CV
Working Papers:
Can Marginal Rates of Substitution Be Inferred From Happiness Data? Evidence from Residency Choices (with Dan Benjamin, Miles Kimball, and Alex Rees-Jones) (May, 2013). [SSRN version] [Web Appendix] [Survey Appendix]
Beyond Happiness and Satisfaction: Toward Well-Being Indices Based on Stated Preference (with Dan Benjamin, Miles Kimball, and Nichole Szembrot) (August, 2012). [SSRN version] [Web Appendix]
Is the Endowment Effect an Expectations Effect? (with John A. List) (a new version: June, 2012).
An older version circulated as Is the Endowment Effect a Reference Effect?. [NBER Working Paper No. w16715]
Published/Forthcoming:
Heffetz, Ori, and Matthew Rabin. 2013.
Conclusions Regarding Cross-Group Differences in Happiness Depend on Difficulty of Reaching Respondents.
American Economic Review, forthcoming. [SSRN version]
Benjamin, Daniel J., Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball, and Nichole Szembrot. 2013.
Aggregating Local Preferences to Guide Marginal Policy Adjustments.
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, forthcoming. [SSRN version]
Benjamin, Daniel J., Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball, and Alex Rees-Jones. 2012.
What Do You Think Would Make You Happier? What Do You Think You Would Choose?
American Economic Review, 102(5): 2083–2110. [SSRN version]
An older version circulated as Do People Seek to Maximize Happiness? Evidence from New Surveys. [Web Appendix] [NBER Working Paper No. w16489 at SSRN]
Media: The Economist
Heffetz, Ori. 2012. Who Sees What? Demographics and the Visibility of Consumer Expenditures.
Journal of Economic Psychology, 33(4): 801–818. [SSRN version]
Heffetz, Ori. 2011. A Test of Conspicuous Consumption: Visibility and Income Elasticities.
Review of Economics and Statistics, 93(4): 1101–1117 (Lead article). [Journal version] [SSRN version]
An older version circulated as Conspicuous Consumption and Expenditure Visibility: Measurement and Application.
Media: New York Times, Haaretz
Heffetz, Ori, and Robert H. Frank. 2011. Preferences for Status: Evidence and Economic Implications.
In Jess Benhabib, Matthew O. Jackson and Alberto Bisin editors: Handbook of Social Economics, Vol. 1A, The Netherlands: North-Holland, pp. 69–91. [SSRN version]
Heffetz, Ori, and Moses Shayo. 2009. How Large Are Non-Budget-Constraint Effects of Prices on Demand?
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1(4): 170–199. [Journal version] [SSRN version]
Media: New York Times, Psychology Today, Inc., TheMarker, etc.
Older Working Paper:
Cobb-Douglas Utility With Nonlinear Engel Curves in a Conspicuous Consumption Model (August, 2007). [SSRN version]
Two of the papers above—A Test of Conspicuous Consumption: Visibility and Income Elasticities and Cobb-Douglas Utility With Nonlinear Engel Curves in a Conspicuous Consumption Model—are based on the first chapter of my Ph.D. dissertation, Conspicuous Consumption and the Visibility of Consumer Expenditures (Princeton University, 2004). The first paper updates the empirical analysis, the second details the model. The original chapter—with more discussions, but less (and now redundant) empirics—is available here.
The First Meaning of Consumption Conference we organized at Cornell, August 2008.