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We study how children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the duration of parental care during infancy. Exploiting a Danish reform that extended paid parental leave in 2002 and effectively delayed children's entry into formal out-of-home care, we...
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link locus of control to decision-making: (i) preference for agency; (ii) optimism and (iii) confidence regarding the … delegate the right to make an investment decision that generates payoffs for themselves and their agents. Extending the game to …
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of cognition. Women are more risk averse than men. Over an initial range, women require no further compensation for the …
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Recent research on the economics of human development deepens understanding of the origins of inequality and excellence. It draws on and contributes to personality psychology and the psychology of human development. Inequalities in family environments and investments in children are substantial....
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We document that an internal locus of control can be hindering in financial market situations, where short-term outcomes are determined by chance. The reason is that internally controlled individuals may tend to (over-)react to random outcomes. Our evidence is based on an experiment in which...
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We develop and test an economic model of the cognitive and non-cognitive foundations of survey item-response behavior. We show that a summary measure of response behaviour - the survey item-response rate (SIRR) - varies with cognitive and less so with non-cognitive abilities, has a strong...
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from two studies and three distinct decision tasks, we present data on over 1100 participants documenting the confirmation …
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We use natural experiments plausibly exogenous, anticipated increases in the piece rate to study how effort responds to incentives. Our first finding, like some previous studies, lends little support to the view that incentives increase effort: raising the piece rate has zero effect on total...
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policies that encourage active decision-making. In an experiment designed to study passive behavior, we document three main …
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institutions compared to situations of individual decision-making. Intelligence, female gender, and the existence of siblings …
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