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Not Learning from Others
Conlon, John; Mani, Malavika; Rao, Gautam; Ridley, Matthew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
discover compared to equally-relevant information they discover themselves. In a series of incentivized lab experiments, we ask …
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The Long-Run Effects of Psychotherapy on Depression, Beliefs, and Economic Outcomes
Bhat, Bhargav; De Quidt, Jonathan; Haushofer, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
only $66 per recipient. Therapy changed people's beliefs about themselves in three ways. First, it reduced their likelihood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210039
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Gender Differences in Response to Competitive Organization? Differences Across Fields from a Product Development Platform Field Experiment
Boudreau, Kevin; Kaushik, Nilam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Prior research, primarily based on lab experiments, suggests that females might be more averse to competition than …
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Competing Narratives in Action : An Empirical Analysis of Model Adoption Dynamics
Angrisani, Marco; Samek, Anya Savikhin; Serrano-Padial, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We use a longitudinal dataset measuring beliefs and behaviors to study the dynamics of model - or narrative - adoption … during the Covid-19 pandemic. We show that individuals switch beliefs about the effectiveness of preventive behaviors … competing narratives in which agents exhibit motivated beliefs. Adopting misspecified narratives increases infection rates …
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Confidence, Self-Selection and Bias in the Aggregate
Enke, Benjamin; Graeber, Thomas Wilhelm; Oprea, Ryan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
market, auction and committee experiments using 15 classic cognitive bias tasks. We document that some cognitive errors are …
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Diminishing Marginal Utility Revisited
Kimball, Miles S.; Reck, Daniel; Zhang, Fudong; Ōtake, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
How quickly does marginal utility fall with increasing consumption? It depends on the dimension along which we consider concavity of the utility function. This paper estimates the distribution of heterogeneous curvature parameters in individuals' utility functions from hypothetical choice data,...
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Moral Boundaries
Enke, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This article reviews the growing economics literature that studies the politico-economic impacts of heterogeneity in moral boundaries across individuals and cultures. The so-called universalism-versus-particularism cleavage has emerged as a main organizing principle behind various salient...
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Noisy Foresight
Chakraborty, Anujit; Kendall, Chad W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Rational agents must perform backwards induction by thinking contingently about future states and actions, but failures of backwards induction and contingent reasoning are ubiquitous. How do boundedly-rational agents make decisions when they fail to correctly forecast actions in the future? We...
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Agency, Gender, and Endowments Effects in the Efficiency and Equity of Team Allocation Decisions
Fafchamps, Marcel; Kebede, Bereket - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We conduct a novel lab experiment in which pairs of subjects make separable decisions about allocative efficiency and equity in different agency structures. In terms of equity, subjects appropriate all surplus when they can, and share equally when they have to negotiate. They achieve high...
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The How and Why of Household Reactions to Income Shocks
Colarieti, Roberto; Mei, Pierfrancesco; Stantcheva, Stefanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies how and why households adjust their spending, saving, and borrowing in response to transitory income shocks. We leverage new large-scale survey data to first quantitatively assess households' intertemporal marginal propensities to consume (MPCs) and deleverage (MPDs) (the...
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