group were 27.5 percent higher than official rates based on all rotation groups. Rotation group bias worsened over time and …

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 …

controlled for there is a further pervasive source of bias, namely the co-movement of firm employment and firm wages. In a simple … aggregate or firm level) to firm's employment and wages cause downward bias in OLS regression estimates of RTT. We show that the … long established procedures for dealing with "traditional" RTT bias do not circumvent the additional problem we have …

evidence is consistent with both the existence of a bias in favor of connected candidates and with academic connections …

) bias in β^. We add to this literature in two important ways. First, we focus on estimation of the fixed effects proper, as … these have become increasingly important in applied work.Second, we build on a bias-reduction approach originally developed …

growth bias, has been linked to household financial decision making. We show that exponential growth bias and standard … bias and household finance without adequate controls for financial literacy may generate biased results …

-cycle bias if the snapshots cannot mimic lifetime outcomes. Using uniquely long series of Swedish income data, we show that … current empirical strategies do not eliminate such bias. We focus on the widely adopted generalized errors-in-variables model … and find that the remaining bias is substantial (20% of the true elasticity from left-side measurement error at the most …