We study the long-run effects of contact with individuals from other regions on beliefs, preferences and national … identity. We combine a natural experiment, the random assignment of male conscripts to different locations throughout Spain … individual preferences and national identity. …

from n=402 participants prescreened by political and religious beliefs. Participants were administered the online task that … examined selective information exposure and perceived strength of arguments that are incongruent to one's own beliefs regarding …

impact of schooling on superstitious beliefs. We find that more education, due to increased mandatory years of schooling …

, imagination and independence in children) to five different measures of religiosity, including beliefs and attendance. We control …

A growing body of work has shown that aggregate shocks affect the formation of preferences and beliefs. This article … period in which they are experienced matters, and whether they alter preferences and beliefs permanently. We review the … conclusions emerge consistently across the reviewed papers. First, aggregate shocks impact many preferences and beliefs, including …

least in part, driven by heterogeneities in beliefs: subjects from the most affluent part of the city have more optimistic … systematic evidence of out-group discrimination based on neighborhood identity. …

Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers … underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany … particularly pronounced among workers in low-wage firms. If workers had correct beliefs, at least 10% of jobs, concentrated in low …