A measure of behavioral heterogeneity

Jose Apesteguia and Miguel Ballester

Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Abstract: In this paper we propose a novel way to measure behavioral heterogeneity in a population of stochastic individuals. Our measure is choice-based; it evaluates the probability that, over a sampled menu, the sampled choices of two sampled individuals differ. We provide axiomatic foundations for this measure, and a decomposition result that separates heterogeneity into its intra- and inter-personal components.

Keywords: heterogeneity; intra-personal; inter-personal; axiomatic foundations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-11
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