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Lived Experience & Memory Effects

Lived Experience & Memory Effects

Articles on how personal and historical experiences—especially emotional ones—permanently shape economic beliefs, expectations, and choices.

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When Experiences Become Part of the Economic Equation

A new framework splits the utility we feel in the moment from the utility we remember years later—and shows why that gap wrecks standard models of saving and risk-taking.