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Political ideology, mood response, and the confirmation bias
Dickinson, David L. - 2022
discounting the validity of, dissonant information are rational strategies that may help avoid or mitigate negative emotion … behavioral bias. Nevertheless, the importance of negative emotion in triggering the need for this bias is underappreciated. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013286207
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Fungibility, labels, and consumption
Abeler, Johannes (contributor); Marklein, Felix (contributor) - 2008
Fungibility of money is a central principle in economics. It implies that any unit of money is substitutable for another and that the composition of income is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment that even in a simple, incentivized setup many subjects do not treat money as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716538
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Learning at home: distance learning solutions and child development during the COVID-19 lockdown
Champeaux, Hugues; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Marchetta, Francesca - 2020
School closures, forced by the COVID-19 crisis in many countries, impacted on children's lives and their learning process. There will likely be substantial and persistent disparities between families in terms of educational outcomes. Distant learning solutions adopted by schools have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305932
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Fathers matter: intra-household responsibilities and children's wellbeing during the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy
Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Piccoli, Luca; Pieroni, Luca - 2020
The lockdown declared during the Spring 2020 because of the COVID-19 outbreak caused a reallocation of market and household work. A the same time school closures in many countries impacted on children's lives and their learning process. In Italy, schools and nurseries have been closed during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012255705
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The bilingual gap in children's language and emotional development
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Harmon, Colm; Staneva, Anita - 2018
In this paper we examine whether - conditional on other family inputs - bilingual children achieve different outcomes in language and emotional development. Our data come from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) which allows us to analyze children's language and emotional development in depth....
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American older adults in the time of COVID-19 : vulnerability types, aging attitudes, and emotional responses
Fu, Mingqi; Guo, Jing; Chen, Xi; Han, Boxun; Ahmed, Farooq - 2022
With 1582 respondents from the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), this study investigates the heterogeneity in older adults' vulnerability and examines the relationship between vulnerability types, aging attitudes and emotional responses. International Positive and Negative Affect Schedule...
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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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Famous after death : the effect of a writer's death on book sales
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2022
In the standard neoclassical model consumers use all the available information and the demand for goods depends exclusively on preferences and prices whereas other spurious information do not play any role. In the market for books, we investigate if - in contrast to the standard model - the...
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Gender differences in cognition in China and reasons for change over time : evidence from CHARLS
Lei, Xiaoyan; Smith, James P.; Sun, Xiaoting; Zhao, Yaohui - 2013
and are nationally representative of the Chinese population in this age span. Our measures of cognition in CHARLS relies … on two measures that proxy for different dimensions of adult cognition - episodic memory and intact mental status. We … people. These gender differences in cognition are especially concentrated in the older age groups and poorer communities …
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Cognitive ability, character skills, and learning to play equilibrium : a level-k analysis
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2014
ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364492