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Overconfidence is a Social Signaling Bias
Burks, Stephen V. - 2010
the desire to send positive signals to others about one's own skill; this suggests a either a bias in judgment, strategic …
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Friendship in a Public Good Experiment
Haan, Marco A.; Kooreman, Peter; Riemersma, Tineke - 2021
We conduct a public good experiment with high school teenagers. Some groups exclusively consist of students that we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317610
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Living in Two Neighborhoods : Social Interactions in the Lab
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - 2023
interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids theidentification problem present in the field. Our novel design feature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261034
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Connections in Scientific Committees and Applicants' Self-Selection : Evidence from a Natural Randomized Experiment
Bagues, Manuel - 2016
evidence is consistent with both the existence of a bias in favor of connected candidates and with academic connections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001879
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Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias : Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?
Snowberg, Erik C. - 2011
The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates … misperceptions of probability drive the favorite-longshot bias, as suggested by Prospect Theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133624
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Lies and Biased Evaluation : A Real-Effort Experiment
Rosaz, Julie - 2011
This paper presents the results of a laboratory experiment in which workers perform a real-effort task and supervisors … supervisor and the worker. We find that not all the supervisors, but at least one third of them bias their report. Both selfish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121746
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Sample Attrition Bias in Randomized Experiments : A Tale of Two Surveys
Behaghel, Luc - 2009
attention. This paper analyzes the dramatic impact of sample attrition in a large job search experiment. We take advantage of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159683
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Media Bias and Tax Compliance : Experimental Evidence
Fišar, Miloš - 2020
We study the impact of media bias on tax compliance. Through a framed laboratory experiment, we assess how the exposure … significant reaction in respect to the neutral condition, suggesting that participants perceive the media negativity bias in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842051
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Biased Survival Expectations and Behaviours : Does Domain Specific Information Matter?
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Vilaplana-Prieto, Cristina - 2022
European countries for more than a decade, we estimate time-varying individual level bias in 'survival expectations' (BSE) at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013405964
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The Development of Egalitarianism, Altruism, Spite and Parochialism in Childhood and Adolescence
Fehr, Ernst - 2011
We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group...
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