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provides a formal account of (endogenously) selective memory or awareness, such as the tendency to remember one's successes …
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consistent, but actually generated by (a concern over) present-oriented preferences. Finally, we analyse the cognitive …-monitoring is subject to opportunistic distortions of memory or attribution. We then study how recall and inference processes can …
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International surveys reveal wide differences between the views held in different countries concerning the causes of wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate. At the same time, social ethnographies and experiments by psychologists demonstrate...
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People with a self-control problem often seek relief through social interactions rather than binding commitments. Thus, in self-help groups like Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous etc, members are said to achieve better personal outcomes by mainly sharing their experiences. In other...
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We analyze social and economic phenomena involving beliefs which people value and invest in, for affective or functional reasons. Individuals are at times uncertain about their own 'deep values' and infer them from their past choices, which then come to define 'who they are'. Identity...
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Since Max Weber, there has been an active debate on the impact of religion on people’s economic attitudes. Much of the existing evidence, however, is based on cross-country studies in which this impact is confounded by differences in other institutional factors. We use the World Values Surveys...
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The standard assumption in economic theory is that preferences are stable. In particular, they are not changed as a … (providing evidence) that preferences are constantly changing when experience is accumulated. This paper tests the effect of … experience on preferences for attributes of health-care events. We are using two very different samples and a methodology that …
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This Paper presents intergenerational evidence in favour of the hypothesis that a significant factor explaining the increase in female labour force participation over time was the growing presence of men who grew up with a different family model – one in which their mother worked. We use...
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which preferences are given precedence in society. We study the equilibrium of a game in which coalitions of individuals … preferences or localities. Individuals differ both in income and also as to whether they receive utility from some specific good …
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elicit and contrast patients’ authentic preferences (for five maternity ward attributes) with what care-givers believe them … to be. Conclusion: agents have a biased perception of principals’ preferences, and therefore a complete agency …: Informing the unaware medical care-givers about the patients' preferences, will improve treatment and patients' satisfaction. …
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