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A long-standing puzzle is how overconfidence can persist in settings characterized by repeated feedback. This paper studies managers who participate repeatedly in a high-powered tournament incentive system, learning relative performance each time. Using reduced form and structural methods we...
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the costs and benefits of transmitting different kinds of information. Instead, it results from memory constraints during …
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' preferences and the size of government. We devise a series of representative survey experiments in Germany that randomly provide … specific education reforms. Preferences on spending across education levels are also malleable to information. …
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Occupational segregation and pay gaps by gender remain large while many of the constraints traditionally believed to be responsible for these gaps have weakened over time. Here, we explore the possibility that women and men have different tastes for the content of the work they do. We run...
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The underrepresentation of women at the top of hierarchies is often explained by gender differences in preferences. We …
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personality skills and preferences. They predict and cause important life outcomes such as wages, health, and longevity. Skills … analysis of human differences by providing anchored measures of economic preferences and studying their links to personality … skills and preferences required to characterize essential differences. …
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measures for risk, time, social preferences, confidence, and cognitive skills using standard measures from the experimental … along risk preferences, time preferences, and overconfidence. Although the recruitment conditions affect participation rates …
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preferences since these preferences have been shown to be related to economic outcomes. The results suggest that successful …
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This paper reviews several traditions in economic research on preferences as well as research on personality traits in … personality psychology and lists challenges in both fields. We discuss challenges regarding the measurement of preferences and … personality traits, challenges regarding the stability of preferences and traits, and challenges when inferring causality …
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conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from deontological to strongly consequentialist; the median respondent would support …
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