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Overconfidence is a well-established bias in which someone's subjective confidence in their own judgments is … dramatic consequences. To test whether the overconfidence bias affects the decision of backcountry skiers to go on a ski trip …
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children, which can be seen as evidence of sexual bias related to a commonly believed existing preference for boys. …
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We characterize the bias of propensity score based estimators of common average treatment effect parameters in the case …
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We empirically investigate possible distortions in subjective performance evaluations. A key hypothesis is that evaluations are more upward biased the closer the social ties between supervisor and appraised employee. We test this hypothesis with a company data set from a call center organization...
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We analyse response patterns to an important survey of school children, exploiting rich auxiliary information on respondents' and non-respondents' cognitive ability that is correlated both with response and the learning achievement that the survey aims to measure. The survey is the Programme for...
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Data from 31 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is used to estimate education production functions for reading literacy. The analysis suggests that the probability of finding statistically significant and correctly signed class size effects...
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This paper introduces bias-corrected estimators for nonlinear panel data models with both time invariant and time …/selection bias. We then estimate the primary equation by fixed effects including an appropriately constructed control function from … both steps might employ nonlinear fixed effects procedures it is necessary to bias adjust the estimates due to the …
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changes in the early life economic environment on late life cognition. In European countries, about three to four economic …
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and are nationally representative of the Chinese population in this age span. Our measures of cognition in CHARLS relies … on two measures that proxy for different dimensions of adult cognition – episodic memory and intact mental status. We … people. These gender differences in cognition are especially concentrated in the older age groups and poorer communities …
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of play towards Nash equilibrium in repeated strategic interactions. We study behavior in a p-beauty contest experiment … ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …
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