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Less is Not More : Information Presentation Complexity and 401(K) Planning Choices
Cardella, Eric - 2019
This paper presents the results of an experiment that is designed to examine how information presentation and complexity impact retirement-savings behavior. The experiment is performed twice, using both a Qualtrics panel of new employees and a sample of business school students. In this...
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Incentives, Search Engines, and the Elicitation of Subjective Beliefs : Evidence from Representative Online Survey Experiments
Grewenig, Elisabeth - 2019
A large literature studies subjective beliefs about economic facts using unincentivized survey questions. We devise … beliefs about average earnings by professional degree and average public school spending. Incentive provision does not impact … earnings beliefs, but improves school-spending beliefs. Response patterns suggest that the latter effect likely reflects …
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Pay-as-They-Get-In : Attitudes Towards Migrants and Pension Systems
Boeri, Tito; Gamalerio, Matteo; Morelli, Massimo; … - 2023
We study whether a better knowledge of the functioning of pay-as-you-go pension systems and recent demographic trends in the hosting country affects natives' attitudes towards immigration. In two online experiments in Italy and Spain, we randomly treated participants with a video explaining how,...
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Flexible Approximation of Subjective Expectations Using Probability Questions : An Application to the Investment Game
Bellemare, Charles - 2008
We use spline interpolation to approximate the subjective cumulative distribution function of an economic agent over the future realization of a continuous (possibly censored) random variable. The method proposed exploits information collected using a small number of probability questions on...
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The Economic Impacts of Direct Natural Disaster Exposure
Johar, Meliyanni - 2020
This paper studies how having your home damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster impacts on economic and financial outcomes. Our context is Australia, where disasters are frequent. Estimates of regression models with individual, area and time fixed-effects, applied to 10 waves of data...
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On the Stability of Risk Preferences : Measurement Matters
Harm Adema, Joop Age; Nikolka, Till; Poutvaara, Panu; … - 2022
We exploit the unique design of a repeated survey experiment among students in four countries to explore the stability of risk preferences in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Relative to a baseline before the pandemic, we find that self-assessed willingness to take risks decreased while the...
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Financial Shocks and the Erosion of Interpersonal Trust : Evidence from Longitudinal Data
Jetter, Michael - 2017
This paper evaluates the effect of financial shocks on interpersonal trust levels, exploiting longitudinal survey data from 22,112 Australians. Using within-individual level variation, we find that trust does not change meaningfully following a positive financial shock (e.g., winning the...
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Behavioral Welfare Economics and Risk Preferences : A Bayesian Approach
Gao, Sherry - 2020
We propose the use of Bayesian estimation of risk preferences of individuals for applications of behavioral welfare economics to evaluate observed choices that involve risk. Bayesian estimation provides more systematic control of the use of informative priors over inferences about risk...
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Knowing What Works - The Case for Rigorous Program Evaluation
Schmidt, Christoph M. - Universität <Heidelberg> / … - 1999
This paper outlines why program evaluation should follow well-respected scientific standards and why it should be performed by independent researchers.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005840377
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Experts in Experiments : How Selection Matters for Estimated Distributions of Risk Preferences
von Gaudecker, Hans-Martin - 2011
An ever increasing number of experiments attempts to elicit risk preferences of a population of interest with the aim of calibrating parameters used in economic models. We are concerned with two types of selection effects, which may affect the external validity of standard experiments: Sampling...
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