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reliance on intuitions. In none of the tasks are very high stakes sufficient to de-bias participants, or come even close to …
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exchanging ideas, solving work-related problems, generating new knowledge …
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drinking. Controlling for health knowledge does not influence the impact of education on health behaviors, supporting the … productive efficiency hypothesis. Although cognition, as measured by test scores, appears to have an effect on the relationship …, suggesting that cognition is not likely to be a significant factor in explaining the impact of education on health behaviors …
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Why are certain movies more successful in some markets than others? Are the entertainment products we consume reflective of our core values and beliefs? These questions drive our investigation into the relationship between a society's oral tradition and the financial success of films. We combine...
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We propose and initiate the study of privacy elasticity--the responsiveness of economic variables to small changes in the level of privacy given to participants in an economic system. Individuals rarely experience either full privacy or a complete lack of privacy; we propose to use differential...
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We explore the mechanics of empathy. In a controlled immersive virtual reality experiment, we show that neutral information on unauthorized immigration magnifies the empathetic response of subjects when they witness the struggles of unauthorized migrants. We conjecture that perceiving others as...
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We use unique data from journal submissions to identify and unpack publication bias and p-hacking. We find that initial … publication bias in peer review. Desk-rejected manuscripts display greater heaping than those sent for review i.e. marginally …
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By investigating the entire IPO pricing process, beginning when the offering is filed, the paper contributes to the existing literature along four dimensions. First, price updates during the registration period are predictable based on firm and offer-specific characteristics known at the time...
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relatives. We show that the cross sectional variance of asset returns affects the magnitude of bias in the average return … estimate for that period, while reducing the bias for the surrounding periods. It is not easy to use an approximation method to … correct the bias problem. We suggest a maximum-likelihood alternative to the RSR that directly estimates index returns that …
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subject to omitted variable bias despite the inclusion of control variables. If the direction of omitted variable bias were … modest than retrospective studies suggest. Bias appears to be reduced by a differences-in-differences estimator that examines …
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