It's Good to Be First: Order Bias in Reading and Citing NBER Working Papers

When choices are made from ordered lists, individuals can exhibit biases toward selecting certain options as a result of the ordering. We examine this phenomenon in the context of consumer response to the ordering of economics papers in an e-mail announcement issued by the NBER. We show that despite...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Feenberg, Daniel, Ganguli, Ina, Gruber, Jonathan, Gaule, Patrick
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Press 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110117
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9877-3065