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The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2003
Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity produced in recognition of the costliness of adopting and maintaining a specific identity. These models of racial and ethnic identity recognize that race and ethnicity is potentially endogenous because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468735
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Stereotype Threat and the Student-Athlete
Dee, Thomas S. - 2009
. This study also presents empirical evidence from a laboratory experiment in which students at a selective college were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463942
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Overconfidence, Subjective Perception and Pricing Behavior
Benigno, Pierpaolo - 2006
We study the implications of a particular form of irrationality on the pricing behavior of firms in a monopolistic-competitive market with incomplete information. We assume that firms are overconfident, meaning that they over-estimate their abilities to understand the correct model of the...
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Status Goods : Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2017
platinum credit cards to high-income customers. In a first experiment, we show that demand for the platinum card greatly … social status. In a second experiment, we provide evidence of positional externalities from the consumption of these status … goods. The final experiment shows that increasing self-esteem causally reduces demand for status goods. We infer that part …
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The Hidden Benefits of Control : Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Landry, Craig E. - 2011
An important dialogue between theorists and experimentalists over the past few decades has raised the study of the interaction of psychological and economic incentives from academic curiosity to a bona fide academic field. One recent area of study within this genre that has sparked interest and...
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Biased Memory and Perceptions of Self-Control
Sial, Afras Y.; Sydnor, Justin R.; Taubinsky, Dmitry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using data from a field experiment on exercise, we analyze the relationship between imperfect memory and people …
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The Gender Minority Gaps in Confidence and Self-Evaluation
Aksoy, Billur; Exley, Christine L.; Kessler, Judd B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
A rich literature explores gender differences between men and women, but an increasing share of the population identifies their gender in some other way. Analyzing data on roughly 10,000 students and 1,500 adults, we find that such gender minorities are less confident and provide less favorable...
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Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South
Naidu, Suresh - 2012
This paper estimates the political and economic effects of the 19th century disenfranchisement of black citizens in the U.S. South. Using adjacent county-pairs that straddle state boundaries, I examine the effect of voting restrictions on political competition, public goods, and factor markets....
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Human Frictions in the Transmission of Economic Policies
D'Acunto, Francesco; Hoang, Daniel; Paloviita, Maritta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Many consumers below the top of the distribution of a representative population by cognitive abilities barely react to monetary and fiscal policies that aim to stimulate consumption and borrowing, even when they are financially unconstrained and despite substantial debt capacity. Differences in...
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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
We revisit two clinical trials that randomized depressed adults in India (n=775) to a brief course of psychotherapy or a control condition. Four to five years later, the treatment group was 11 percentage points less likely to be depressed than the control group. The more effective intervention...
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