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In this paper, we take a comprehensive and multidisciplinary look at terrorism sentencing decisions over a 17-year period, between September 2001 when the ATA was first conceived of and September 2018. In so doing, we first offer an empirical analysis of the sentences for all terrorism offenses...
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In this paper, we study the roles of expertise and independence on governing boards in the context of education. In … independence of educators may be distorted by interest groups. The key empirical challenge is that school board composition is …
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This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect … the effects of board gender quotas on women directors. First, we find a positive impact of employee representation before …
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underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany …
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This paper investigates the role of biased health perceptions as driving forces of risky health behavior. We define absolute and relative health perception biases, illustrate their measurement in surveys and provide evidence on their relevance. Next, we decompose the theoretical effect into its...
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multitude of psychological motives that drive human behaviour, and despite the fact that many influential economists thereafter …
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Group identity is known to exert a powerful socio-psychological influence on behaviour but to date has been largely … behaviour. Moving from one to two dimensions can produce a significant increase in ingroup allocations at the expense of …
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label 'culture', change individuals' preferences and behaviour in mainland China. From 1949 China experienced dramatic … social norms during the crucial developmental age changes individuals' behaviour. Our findings also provide further evidence …
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priori, we would expect that, when traumas are brought about by outsiders, within-group behaviour would become more …
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effect having an opposite sign from the true effect. We present an expression for the asymptotic bias of both OLS and IV … estimators and discuss the conditions under which sign reversal may occur. We provide a method for eliminating this bias when …
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