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Overconfidence is a social signaling bias
Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Götte, Lorenz; … - 2010
Evidence from psychology and economics indicates that many individuals overestimate their ability, both absolutely and relatively. We test three different theories about observed relative overconfidence. The first theory notes that simple statistical comparisons (for example, whether the...
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Effect of perceptions and behaviour on access to and use of financial service : evidence from South Africa
Annim, Samuel Kobina; Arun, Thankom; Kostov, Philip - 2012
This study investigates the effect of financial perception and behaviour on; (a) general accounts and services, (b … three estimations support the hypothesis that financial perception has a greater effect on the decision to access and use … behaviour is greater than financial perception when making decisions on the take-up and use of investment financial services. It …
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Do they find you on Facebook? : Facebook profile picture and hiring chances
Baert, Stijn - 2015
We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring decisions. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in which fictitious job applications are sent to real job openings in Belgium. The only characteristic in which these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408193
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Self-control and unhealthy body weight: the role of impulsivity and restraint
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Dahmann, Sarah Christina; … - 2022
We examine the relationship between trait self-control and body weight. Data from a population representative household survey reveal that limited self-control is strongly associated with both objective and subjective measures of unhealthy body weight. Those with limited self-control are...
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Sophistication about self-control
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Dahmann, Sarah Christina; … - 2021
We propose a broadly applicable empirical approach to classify individuals as time-consistent versus naïve or sophisticated regarding their self-control limitations. Operationalizing our approach based on nationally representative data reveals that self-control problems are pervasive and that...
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Locus of control, self-control, and health outcomes
Botha, Ferdi; Dahmann, Sarah Christina - 2022
We provide the first empirical evidence on the direct link between locus of control and self-control, and how they interact in explaining a range of health outcomes. Using rich Australian survey data, we find that, while the two traits are distinct constructs, a greater internal locus of control...
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Drinking is different! : examining the role of locus of control for alcohol consumption
Caliendo, Marco; Hennecke, Juliane - 2020
Unhealthy behavior can be extremely costly from a micro- and macroeconomic perspective and exploring the determinants of such behavior is highly important from an economist's point of view. We examine whether locus of control (LOC) can explain alcohol consumption as an important domain of health...
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Personality traits and household consumption choices
Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Piccoli, Luca; Rapallini, Chiara - 2018
In this paper, we test whether consumption choices are affected by personality traits and whether this impact is different for singles and individuals living in couples. To fulfill this aim, we test the impact of personality on preferences for different commodities using the German...
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Feeling good or feeling better?
Prati, Alberto; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2020
Can people remember correctly their past well-being? We study three national surveys of the British, German and French population, where more than 50,000 European citizens were asked questions about their current and past life satisfaction. We uncover systematic biases in recalled subjective...
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Visual inference and graphical representation in regression discontinuity designs
Korting, Christina; Lieberman, Carl; Matsudaira, Jordan D. - 2021
Despite the widespread use of graphs in empirical research, little is known about readers' ability to process the statistical information they are meant to convey ("visual inference"). We study visual inference within the context of regression discontinuity (RD) designs by measuring how...
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