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  • We empirically investigate the possibility that a decision maker prefers to avoid making a decision and instead delegates it to an external device, e.g., a coin flip. A large data set from the centralized clearinghouse for university admissions in Germany shows a choice pattern of applicants that is consistent with coin flipping and that entails substantial consequences for the matching outcome. In a series of experiments capturing the relevant features of university choice, participants often choose lotteries between allocations rather than certain allocations. This contradicts most theories of choice such as expected utility. A survey among university applicants links their choices to the experiments and confirms that the choice of random allocations is intentional. (xsd:string)
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  • 2018 (xsd:gyear)
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  • 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.09.014 ()
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  • 1879-2316 ()
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  • 167 (xsd:string)
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  • Flipping a coin: evidence from university applications (xsd:string)
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  • In: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 167, 240-250 (xsd:string)
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