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

heterogeneous across the population. Individual beliefs about social norms, economic preferences such as patience and altruism, as …

the prevalence of their own values and preferences when forming beliefs about others' values and preferences, depends on … the salience of own preferences. We manipulate salience by varying the order of elicitation of preferences and beliefs …

' successes. In our model, both the agent's information and his beliefs are multi-dimensional, allowing us to study interactions … settings. Third, the agent's beliefs are subject to "bias substitution," whereby forces that decrease his bias regarding one … multi-dimensional beliefs possible, we develop tools for studying learning under high-dimensional misspecified models. …

monetary incentives for accurate recall, but partially by high incentives. Thus, it seems that motivation and identity …

This paper examines how beliefs and preferences drive identity-conforming consumption or investments. We introduce a … theory that explains how identity distorts individuals' beliefs about potential outcomes and imposes psychic costs on … gains from identity-incongruent assets by 9% to 27%. Our counterfactual simulations imply that identity-specific beliefs …