Context-Dependent Heterogeneous Preferences: A Comment on Barseghyan and Molinari (2023)
Context-Dependent Heterogeneous Preferences: A Comment on Barseghyan and Molinari (2023)
Abstract–Barseghyan and Molinari give sufficient conditions for semi-nonparametric point identification of parameters of interest in a mixture model of decision-making under risk, allowing for unobserved heterogeneity in utility functions and limited consideration. A key assumption in the model is that the heterogeneity of risk preferences is unobservable but context-independent. In …