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The Privacy Elasticity of Behavior: Conceptualization and Application / Inbal Dekel, Rachel Cummings, Ori Heffetz, Katrina Ligett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dekel, Inbal.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w30215.
- NBER working paper series no. w30215
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2022.
- Summary:
- We propose and initiate the study of privacy elasticity--the responsiveness of economic variables to small changes in the level of privacy given to participants in an economic system. Individuals rarely experience either full privacy or a complete lack of privacy; we use differential privacy--a computer-science theory increasingly adopted by industry and government--as a standardized means of quantifying continuous privacy changes. The resulting privacy measure implies a privacy-elasticity notion that is portable and comparable across contexts. We discuss applications, and demonstrate the feasibility of this approach by estimating the privacy elasticity of public-good contributions in a lab experiment.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2022.
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