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School dissatisfaction is an important component of the subjective well-being of adolescents associated with "risky behavior" like drug use, unprotected sex, norm violations and illegal behavior. We extend the standard human capital model to joint human investment (education) and disinvestment...
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In this contribution, we investigate the effects of observation-only and observation with feedback from a third-party, in a one-shot dictator game (DG). In addition to a baseline condition (DG), a third-party anonymous subject is introduced who either silently observes or observes and gives...
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This article studies the joint determination of beliefs about the economic impact of immigration and immigration policy … results stress the important role of the endogenous determination of beliefs, which appears as a major determinant of policy … preferences. Moreover, media exposure appears as a key determinant of beliefs: individuals who spend more time to get informed on …
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given set of beliefs and remains optimal when these beliefs are changed, then the set of optimal allocations of the two … economies must actually coincide. We identify equivalence classes of beliefs giving rise to the same set of Pareto optimal …
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players realize that their own actions modify their opponent's beliefs and actions, they might play certain actions to this … their beliefs in order to take account of the reaction of their opponents to their own action. Second, we examine if players …
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update their beliefs about the probability of being audited, both before and after audits are definitely withdrawn. We find … that when individuals have initially experienced systematic audits, they decrease both their beliefs and their … irregular, they maintain high beliefs about the probability of being audited and continue cooperating long after audits have …
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different determinants of the choice to enter a competition : beliefs and the competition level. As far as entry in the … information on their own performance while men seem to respond more to their beliefs concerning the level of the competition they … will be evolving in. Finally, both men and women deviate from their bayesian beliefs and become too pessimistic (optimistic …
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different beliefs about how policy choices will map into future economic outcomes. We show that when the incumbent party can …-serving behavior by political parties, but rather stems from their differing beliefs about the consequences of their actions. …
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know whether the decision maker has wrong beliefs and whether it matters or not, that it makes it possible to better model …
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The aim of the paper is to analyze the impact of heterogeneous beliefs in an otherwise standard competitive complete … consumer to investigate the impact of beliefs heterogeneity on the CCAPM and on the expression of the risk free rate. We focus …
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