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Research shows that most ventures fail, yet it has devoted limited attention to the consequences of entrepreneurs' past failure for investors' decisions. Our motivating insight is that failure can be due to bad luck, lack of skill or both. Therefore, failure conveys ambiguous information about...
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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 …
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survey. Even if nonresponse is random, severe bias attaches to wage equation coefficient estimates on attributes not matched …
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currently employed in the literature might not eliminate bias arising from life-cycle effects. Specifically, I demonstrate that …
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. The most severe problem is selection bias as a result of selective sorting into neighbourhoods. This paper argues that in … (selection bias) are also critical to fully understand the neighbourhood context itself. It is thus remarkable that residential …
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Throughout the years spanned by the U.S. Vital Statistics Linked Birth and Infant Death Data (1983-2002), birth weights are measured most precisely for children of white and highly educated mothers. As a result, less healthy children, who are more likely to be of low socioeconomic status, are...
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supervisor and the worker. We find that not all the supervisors, but at least one third of them bias their report. Both selfish …
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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 …
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-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 …
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Individual perceptions of income distribution play a vital role in political economy and public finance models, yet there is little evidence regarding their origins or accuracy. This study examines how individuals form these perceptions and posits that systematic biases arise from the...
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