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Belief-Dependent Motivations and Psychological Game Theory
Battigalli, Pierpaolo - 2020
The mathematical framework of psychological game theory is useful for describing many forms of motivation where preferences depend directly on own or others' beliefs. It allows for incorporating, e.g., emotions, reciprocity, image concerns, and self-esteem in economic analysis. We explain how...
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On a three-alternative Condorcet jury theorem
Goertz, Johanna M. M.; Maniquet, François - 2011
We investigate whether the simple plurality rule aggregates information efficiently in a large election with three alternatives. The environment is the same as in the Condorcet Jury Theorem (Condorcet (1785)). Voters have common preferences that depend on the unknown state of nature, and they...
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Types of Contact: A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration
Lowe, Matthew - 2020
I estimate the effects of collaborative and adversarial intergroup contact. I randomly assigned Indian men from different castes to participate in cricket leagues or to serve as a control group. League players faced variation in collaborative contact, through random assignment to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179888
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Overconfidence and Gender Equality in the Labor Market
Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2023
Gender differences in overconfidence have been extensively documented in the empirical literature, but the implications for labor market outcomes are not well understood. In this paper, we analyze how men's relatively higher overconfidence, combined with competitive job incentives, affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290249
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Overconfidence and Gender Equality in the Labor Market
Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2023
Gender differences in overconfidence have been extensively documented in the empirical literature, but the implications for labor market outcomes are not well understood. In this paper, we analyze how men’s relatively higher overconfidence, combined with competitive job incentives, affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358407
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Simply a Matter of Luck & Looks? Predicting Elections when Both the World Economy and the Psychology of Faces Count
Garretsen, Harry; Stoker, Janka I.; Alessie, Rob; … - 2014
Economic research shows that candidates have a higher chance of getting (re-)elected when they have the luck that the world economy does well even though this is beyond their control and unrelated to their competence. Psychological research demonstrates that candidates increase their chances if...
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Superstar Economists : Coauthorship Networks and Research Output
Hsieh, Chih-Sheng - 2019
institutions and compare them with the economics funding program of the National Science Foundation. Our results indicate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892043
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Medieval Anti-Semitism, Weimar Social Capital, and the Rise of the Nazi Party: A Reconsideration
Guinnane, Timothy W.; Hoffman, Philip - 2022
The persistence literature in economics and related disciplines connects recent outcomes to events long ago. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470353
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Medieval Anti-Semitism, Weimar Social Capital, and the Rise of the Nazi Party : A Reconsideration
Guinnane, Timothy W.; Hoffman, Philip - 2022
The persistence literature in economics and related disciplines connects recent outcomes to events long ago. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241609
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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - 2014
In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an … discriminating against female applicants. What we find is that girls are less likely to apply for a bachelor's degree in Economics to … Maths in high school and this may deter them from applying to study Economics at the university level. However, even among …
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