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Overconfident people are more exposed to "black swan" events : a case study of avalanche risk
Bonini, Nicolao; Pighin, Stefania; Rettore, Enrico; … - 2015
Overconfidence is a well-established bias in which someone's subjective confidence in their own judgments is … exposure to risk. In this paper, we test whether overconfident people underestimate the probability of incurring an avalanche … dramatic consequences. To test whether the overconfidence bias affects the decision of backcountry skiers to go on a ski trip …
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Fast times during spring breaks : are traffic fatalities another consequence?
French, Michael T.; Gumus, Gulcin - 2014
Every year in the United States, millions of college students travel for spring break, spending billions of dollars. We examine a potential adverse consequence of spring break that has received little attention in the literature - traffic safety. In particular, we estimate the impact of spring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010387777
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Hitting where it hurts most: COVID-19 and low-income urban college students
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2020
benefits from the CARES Act, low-income college students have or are currently more at risk of experiencing financial distress …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012284795
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Retirement choice simulation in household settings with heterogeneous pension plans
Li, Jinjing; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2011
household retirement behaviour in Ireland. -- retirement ; choice modelling ; microsimulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310732
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Connections in scientific committees and applicants' self-selection : evidence from a natural randomized experiment
Bagues, Manuel F.; Sylos Labini, Mauro; Zinovyeva, Natalia - 2015
We examine how the presence of connections in scientific committees affects researchers' decision to apply and their chances of success. We exploit evidence from Italian academia, where in order to be promoted to an associate or full professorship, researchers are firstly required to qualify in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011427833
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Sample attrition in the Canadian Survey of Labor and Income Dynamics
Boudarbat, Brahim; Grenon, Lee - 2013
This paper provides an analysis of the effects of attrition and non-response on employment and wages using the Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics. We consider a structural model composed of three freely correlated equations for non-attrition/response, employment and wages. The model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009727771
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Match or mismatch? : automatic admissions and college preferences of low- and high-income students
Lincove, Jane Arnold; Cortes, Kalena E. - 2016
We examine the role of information in the college matching behavior of low- and high-income students, exploiting a state automatic admissions policy that provides some students with perfect a priori certainty of college admissions. We find that admissions certainty encourages college-ready...
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Efficiency-morality trade-offs in repugnant transactions : a choice experiment
Elías, Julio; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2016
conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531908
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Repeated selection with heterogenous individuals and relative age effects
Dawid, Herbert; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2012
In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated selection. We analyze optimal selection policies in a model of endogenous skill formation where, apart...
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How do principals assign students to teachers? : finding evidence in administrative data and the implications for value-added
Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2012
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
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