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In a laboratory experiment, we show that subjects incorporate irrelevant group information into their evaluations of … equally well as individuals from better performing groups. Our experiment leaves room neither for statistical nor taste …-based discrimination. The discrimination we find is rather due to conservatism in updating beliefs. This conservatism is more pronounced in …
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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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This paper summarizes recent evidence on what achievement tests measure; how achievement tests relate to other measures of "cognitive ability" like IQ and grades; the important skills that achievement tests miss or mismeasure, and how much these skills matter in life. Achievement tests miss, or...
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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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Dimensions of cognitive skills are potentially important but often neglected determinants of the central economic outcomes that shape overall well-being over the life course. There exists enormous variation among households in their rates of wealth accumulation, their holdings of financial...
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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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We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students …
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We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...
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While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample of children aged between 7 and 14, we find...
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We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
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