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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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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 …
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bias for money. In this paper, we compare estimates of present bias for money with estimates for healthy and unhealthy … bias for both money and food, and that individual measures of present bias are moderately correlated across reward types …
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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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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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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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The belief that home ownership makes people happy is probably one of the most widespread intuitive theories of happiness. However, whether it is accurate is an open question. Based on individual panel data, we explore whether home buyers systematically overestimate the life satisfaction...
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The public finance literature demonstrates the equivalence between consumption and labor-income (wage) taxes. We introduce an experimental paradigm in which individuals make real labor-leisure choices and spend their earned income on real goods. We use this paradigm to test whether a...
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Social preference research has received considerable attention in recent years. Researchers have demonstrated that the presence of people with social preferences has important implications in many economic domains. However, it is important to be aware of the fact that the empirical basis of this...
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We investigated experimentally whether people can be induced to believe in a non-existent expert, and subsequently pay for what can only be described as transparently useless advice about future chance events. Consistent with the theoretical predictions made by Rabin (2002) and Rabin and Vayanos...
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