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We repeatedly elicit beliefs about the returns to study effort, in a large university course. A behavioral model of quasi-hyperbolic discounting and malleable beliefs predicts that the dynamics of beliefs mirrors the importance of exerting self-control, such that believed returns increase as the...
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Theory of mind and individual preferences are important determinants in social decision making. The current study …
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by 8 - 15% compared to only offering a pay-per-use contract. -- access services ; pricing contracts ; decision biases …
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are information seeking otherwise. Because belief updating depends on the decision problem in which new information is …
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thereby distort optimal search. In addition, urgency may alter decision-making processes and thereby the salience of regret … decision times and perceived decision quality but does not alter search length. Only very inexperienced decision-makers buy …
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university students who we randomly assign to study groups. Our results show that students become more similar to their peers … along several dimensions. Students with more competitive peers become more competitive, students with more open-minded peers … become more open-minded, and students with more conscientious peers become more conscientious. We see no significant effects …
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using a large survey linked to administrative student register data. Exploiting cross sectional variation in students' self …-reported grit in the last year of compulsory school, we find that an increase in students' grit is associated with a higher … cognitive skill measures and a comprehensive set of other students' background characteristics. Moreover, using novel data on …
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cost of making a mistake on this decision is $ 262. We then compute that almost all members have made the right decision …
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We study how individuals’ willingness to delegate choice is affected by heterogeneity in identity between the delegee and the delegate. While it is straightforward that such heterogeneity can affect delegation for instrumental reasons, we show experimentally that divergent identity also causes...
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We examine the risky choices of pairs of contestants in a popular radio game show in France. At one point during the COVID-19 pandemic the show, held in person, had to switch to an all-remote format. We find that such an exogenous change in social context affected risk-taking behavior. Remotely,...
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