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Exley, Christine L. - 2019

In three sets of experiments involving over 4,200 subjects, we show that agents motivated to be selfish make systematic decision errors of the kind generally attributed to cognitive limitations or behavioral biases. We show that these decision errors are eliminated (or dramatically reduced) when...

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Incentivized Resume Rating : Eliciting Employer Preferences without Deception

Kessler, Judd B. - 2019

We introduce a new experimental paradigm to evaluate employer preferences, called Incentivized Resume Rating (IRR). Employers evaluate resumes they know to be hypothetical in order to be matched with real job seekers, preserving incentives while avoiding the deception necessary in audit studies....

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Nudging Timely Wage Reporting : Field Experimental Evidence from the United States Social Supplementary Income Program

Zhang, C. Yiwei - 2020

We study a large-scale (n=50,000) natural field experiment implemented by the U.S. Social Security Administration that …

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Is Attention Produced Rationally?

Bronchetti, Erin T. - 2020

attentive and develop quantitative tests of rational inattention that we deploy in two experiments. The first is an experiment … and incentives to make plans to complete the modules. The second is an online survey-completion experiment (n=944), in … rationality, indicating that people underuse attention-increasing tools. In our second experiment, we estimate that individuals …

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Don't Take 'No' For An Answer : An Experiment With Actual Organ Donor Registrations

Kessler, Judd B. - 2014

in California and show it decreased registration rates. Similarly, a "field in the lab" experiment run on actual organ …

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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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