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Plenty. This paper analyzes two broad questions: Does your first name matter? And how did you get your first name anyway? Using data from the National Opinion Research Centers (NORC s) General Social Survey, including access to respondents first names from the 1994 and 2002 surveys, we extract...
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of defense policy, namely an increase in the security of citizens, by means of a survey-based discrete choice experiment …
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We study the heterogeneity of preferences regarding the limited substitutability of environmental public goods vis-a-vis private consumption goods and how it affects the economic valuation of environmental public goods. We show theoretically that mean marginal willingness to pay for an...
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We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity …. This effect is specific to individuals who have a criminal identity, because an additional placebo experiment shows that …
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We test experimentally an explanation of over and under confidence as motivated by (perhaps unconscious) strategic concerns, and find compelling evidence supporting this hypothesis in the behavior of participants who send and respond to others ́statements of confidence about how well they have...
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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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Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 …
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-faceted self-concept (identity) we conduct an experiment with foreign- and US-born Chinese immigrants at a large US public …
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experiments to study what drives these gaps. Our first experiment shows that providing evaluators with automated performance … measures does not reduce gender gaps. Our second experiment compares blind to non-blind evaluations without video interaction …
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