European countries for more than a decade, we estimate time-varying individual level bias in 'survival expectations' (BSE) at …

their impact on attitudes towards redistributive policies. An experimental design incorporated into the survey provides … attitudes provides an alternative explanation for the relatively low degree of redistribution observed in modern democracies …

We perform an incentivized experiment designed to assess the accuracy of beliefs about characteristics and decisions … 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 …

attention. This paper analyzes the dramatic impact of sample attrition in a large job search experiment. We take advantage of …

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 …

relatively. We test three different theories about observed relative overconfidence. The first theory notes that simple … on 1,016 individuals' relative ability judgments about two cognitive tests rejects the Bayesian model. The second theory … might make this belief worse. Our data also reject this prediction. The third theory is that overconfidence is induced by …

We design an experiment to test the hypothesis that, in violation of Bayes Rule, some people respond more forcefully to … information, and control for risk attitude. We find that the strength-weight bias affects expectations, but that its magnitude is … significantly lower than originally reported. Controls for non-linear utility further reduce the bias. Our results suggest that …

broken, and guilt is exacerbated by higher interaction prices. An experiment qualitatively confirms our predictions: (1) most …