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Comparing the chosen: Selection bias when selection is competitive
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Consider a decision maker who selects between paired random draws from two unconditional distributions, always selecting the larger draw in the pair. When will the resulting selection-conditioned distributions be ordered by first-order stochastic or monotone likelihood-ratio dominance? In various guises, this question arises in many economic contexts—tournaments, contests, auctions, cheap-talk games, announcement returns, qualitative choice models, and treatment effects under self-selection. ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- Journal:
- Journal of Political Economy More from this journal
- Volume:
- 128
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 342-390
- Publication date:
- 2019-12-06
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-11-09
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1537-534X
- ISSN:
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0022-3808
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English
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pubs:942221
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pubs:942221
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942221
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2018-11-14
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- University of Chicago
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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- © 2019 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.
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This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from University of Chicago Press at https://doi.org/10.1086/704076
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