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biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to …As evidence is accumulating that subjective expectations influence behavior and that these expectations are sometimes … affect how people picture the future. This paper studies the role of public information dissemination, or publicity, in a …
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This is the first paper to experimentally examine effects of information provision on beliefs about pecuniary and non … treatment. Taken together, this study highlights the relevance of information provision on pecuniary and non-pecuniary labor …
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policy mix of unemployment insurance agencies. We analyze unique data on three sources of information on the probability of …-reported and caseworker assessments sometimes contain information not captured by the machine learning algorithm. …
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biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to …As evidence is accumulating that subjective expectations influence behavior and that these expectations are sometimes … affect how people picture the future. This paper studies the role of public information dissemination, or publicity, in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969323
Teachers are an important source of information for traditionally disadvantaged students. However, little is known … about how teachers form expectations and whether their expectations are systematically biased. We investigate whether … student-teacher demographic mismatch affects high school teachers' expectations for students' educational attainment. Using a …
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. Amongst employees, optimists earn more. These results are consistent with biased expectations leading to entry errors. As a … test of validity, we find that amongst the married, future divorcees have higher financial expectations but their …
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We use novel survey data to estimate how personal experiences affect household expectations about aggregate economic … systematically extrapolate from recent locally experienced home prices when asked for their expectations about US house price changes … distribution over expected future national house price movements. We find similar results for labor market expectations, where we …
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are driven by status concerns and differences in career expectations. …
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theories have assumed that the U-shape is caused by unmet expectations that are felt painfully in midlife but beneficially … abandoned and experienced with less regret during old age. In a unique panel of 132,609 life satisfaction expectations matched … support theories that unmet expectations drive the age U-shape in wellbeing. …
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cultural identity and financial expectations and by large unrelated to economic background variables like income inequality. We … find evidence that negative financial expectations are positively related to Euroskepticism in Western European countries …
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