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Using a new survey of firms in New Zealand, we document how exogenous variation in the macroeconomic uncertainty perceived by firms affects their economic decisions. We use randomized information treatments that provide different types of information about the first and/or second moments of...
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This paper uses a gravity model of migration to analyze how income differentials affect the flow of immigrants into U.S. states using annual data from the American Community Survey. We add to existing literature by decomposing income differentials into short- and long-term components and by...
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We study the determinants of biases in subjective performance evaluations in an MTurk experiment to test the implications of a standard formal framework of rational subjective evaluations. In the experiment, subjects in the role of workers work on a real effort task. Subjects in the role of...
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extent of p-hacking and publication bias by collecting and studying the universe of test statistics, 15,992 in total, from …
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The confirmation bias is a well-known form of motivated reasoning that serves to protect an individual from cognitive …. Because there is often systematic thought involved in generating the confirmation bias, deliberation tends to promote this … behavioral bias. Nevertheless, the importance of negative emotion in triggering the need for this bias is underappreciated. This …
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data.The bias is procyclical and is reduced by more than 10% in recessions. We propose an algorithm that uses earnings and …
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capacity constraints resulting in significant recall bias. We offer the first study that employs a less-costly, imputation … other contexts, including for other types of variables that suffer from similar recall bias, these results could open up a …
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This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset of 19 … women receive systematically lower teaching evaluations than their male colleagues. This bias is driven by male students …' evaluations, is larger for mathematical courses and particularly pronounced for junior women. The gender bias in teaching …
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bias is greater for males. The results are then used to adjust the composite GHQ-12 score to take such mis …
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-growth bias (EGB) and present bias (PB). We find that EGB, the tendency to neglect compounding, and PB, the tendency to value the …
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