We study the long-run effects of contact with individuals from other regions on beliefs, preferences and national … identity. We combine a natural experiment, the random assignment of male conscripts to different locations throughout Spain … individual preferences and national identity. …

This paper examines how beliefs and preferences drive identity-conforming consumption or investments. We introduce a … theory that explains how identity distorts individuals' beliefs about potential outcomes and imposes psychic costs on … gains from identity-incongruent assets by 9% to 27%. Our counterfactual simulations imply that identity-specific beliefs …

discuss the measurement of subjective beliefs, including the role of incentives and ways to reduce measurement error. We also …

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 … the hypothesized mechanism that beliefs serve as a means of self-control. …

anticipatory utility from holding optimistic beliefs about their future effort costs. This study provides a rigorous empirical test … beliefs among workers, which causally increase the deferral of work to the future. The roots for biased beliefs stem from …

This paper investigates beliefs concerning the gender gap in salary negotiations (GGSN) in a sample of 4,300 women, 1 … its magnitude. Providing respondents with accurate information changes their beliefs about it. However, this does not lead …

Does identity influence economic behavior in the labor market? I investigate this question in rural India, focusing on … the effect of caste identity on job-specific labor supply. In a field experiment, laborers choose whether to take up … payments to avoid job offers that conflict with their caste identity, regardless of whether these decisions are made in private. …

We study how individuals’ willingness to delegate choice is affected by heterogeneity in identity between the delegee … show experimentally that divergent identity also causes delegation aversion through purely intrinsic channels. More … (Republican). By design, beliefs about the actions of the delegate cannot explain the observed treatment effect. Our finding …