test two main hypotheses: (i) whether for items not perfectly observable, individuals suffer of some type of bias in these … beliefs; (ii) whether this bias would disappear for weight and height, when the information is perfectly available. We find a … powerful and ubiquitous bias in perceptions that is "self-centered" in the sense that those at extremes tend to perceive …

European countries for more than a decade, we estimate time-varying individual level bias in 'survival expectations' (BSE) at …

We study the impact of media bias on tax compliance. Through a framed laboratory experiment, we assess how the exposure … significant reaction in respect to the neutral condition, suggesting that participants perceive the media negativity bias in the …

Exponential growth bias (EGB) is the pervasive tendency of people to perceive a growth process as linear when, in fact … positive cases in the future. The bias is positively correlated with optimistic expectations about the future macroeconomic … to Baseline, b) Feedback-N, Feedback-G, and Forecast significantly reduce bias relative to both Baseline and Step, c) the …

This paper introduces bias-corrected estimators for nonlinear panel data models with both time invariant and time …/selection bias. We then estimate the primary equation by fixed effects including an appropriately constructed control function from … both steps might employ nonlinear fixed effects procedures it is necessary to bias adjust the estimates due to the …

endogeneity and attrition/non-response bias, using two instrumental variables. Making use of a discrete instrument for the …

estimates for a number of reasons. Consequently, if we neglect this potential bias in OLS when estimating the gender wage gap …

the determinants of the least squares bias of the wage return to education. We find that disregarding individual fixed … effects is highly problematic, accounting for 95% of the bias. In contrast, disregarding firm fixed effects has marginal …