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possible outcome reporting bias using gender differences in risk attitudes. There is a strong consensus view in the … outcome reporting bias in the risk and gender literature. We find no evidence that the likelihood of reporting about gender …
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We analyze how agents' present bias affects optimal contracting in an infinite-horizon employment setting. The …
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emphasizing apprenticeship programs. Results are robust to accounting for ability patterns and to propensity-score matching …
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We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings...
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We propose a theory of skill mobility across cities. It predicts the well documented city size-wage premium: the wage distribution in large cities first-order stochastically dominates that in small cities. Yet, because this premium is reflected in higher house prices, this does not necessarily...
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The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates … misperceptions of probability drive the favorite-longshot bias, as suggested by Prospect Theory …
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Purchasing power adjusted incomes applied in cross-country comparisons are measured with bias. In this paper, we … estimate the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table incomes and provide corrected incomes. The bias is … substantial and systematic: the poorer a country, the more its income tends to be overestimated. Consequently, international …
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bias is persistent and robust to several model extensions. Implications for the optimal design of intellectual property …
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leads individuals to make inefficient intertemporal decisions. This paper concerns optimal income taxation to correct for … lives for three periods. Our results show how a paternalistic government may correct for the effects of anticipation-bias … through a combination of time-variant marginal labor income taxes and savings subsidies. Furthermore, the optimal policy mix …
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bias in labor court activity - that is, court activity varies systematically with the political leaning of the government …
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