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Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference : Evidence from a Day Reconstruction Study with Biological Tracking

Daly, Michael; Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm - 2021

This paper considers the relationship between the economic concept of time preference and relevant concepts from psychology and biology. Using novel data from a time diary study conducted in Ireland that combined detailed psychometric testing with medical testing and real-time bio-tracking, we...

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Psychological Momentum and Gender

Cohen-Zada, Danny - 2016

We exploit a natural experiment in which two professionals compete in a one-stage contest without strategic motives and where one contestant has a clear exogenous psychological momentum advantage over the other in order to estimate the causal effect of psychological momentum on performance. We...

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Some Contributions of Economics to the Study of Personality

Heckman, James J. - 2019

This paper synthesizes recent research in economics and psychology on the measurement and empirical importance of personality skills and preferences. They predict and cause important life outcomes such as wages, health, and longevity. Skills develop over the life cycle and can be enhanced by...

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Close Neighbours Matter : Neighbourhood Effects on Early Performance at School

Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric - 2021

Children's outcomes are strongly correlated with those of their neighbours. The extent to which this is causal is the subject of an extensive literature. An identification problem exists because people with similar characteristics are observed to live in close proximity. Another major difficulty...

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Behavioural Economics and Drinking Behaviour : Preliminary Results from an Irish College Study

Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm; Wall, Patrick - 2021

This paper examines the results of single-equation regression models of the determinants of alcohol consumption patterns among college students modelling a rich variety of covariates including gender, family and peer drinking, tenure, personality, risk perception, time preferences and age of...

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Discrimination and In-Group Favoritism in a Citywide Trust Experiment

Falk, Armin; Zehnder, Christian - 2021

This paper provides field experimental evidence on the prevalence and determinants of discrimination and in-group favoritism in trust decisions. We observe choices of about 1,000 inhabitants of the city of Zurich who take part in a sequential trust game, in which first movers can condition their...

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Gift Exchange in the Workplace : Money or Attention?

Dur, Robert A. J. - 2021

convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways … altruistic managers may offer lower wages and nevertheless build up better social-exchange relationships with their employees … than egoistic managers do. In such equilibria, a low wage signals to employees that the manager has something else to offer …

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Social Connections and Incentives in the Workplace : Evidence from Personnel Data

Bandiera, Oriana - 2011

We present evidence on the effect of social connections between workers and managers on productivity in the workplace … workers managed. We find that when managers are paid fixed wages, they favor workers to whom they are socially connected …

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Ethnic Fragmentation, Conflict, Displaced Persons and Human Trafficking : An Empirical Analysis

Akee, Randall - 2010

fragmentation and conflict on international trafficking through internal and international displacements …

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Invisible Geniuses : Could the Knowledge Frontier Advance Faster?

Agarwal, Ruchir - 2018

The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data from the setting of mathematics, this paper establishes two results. First, we document that individuals who demonstrate exceptional talent in their teenage years have an...

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