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Governments, multinational companies, and researchers today collect unprecedented amounts of data on human feelings. These data provide information on citizens' happiness, levels of customer satisfaction, employees' satisfaction, mental stress, societal trust, and other important variables. Yet...
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The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything from an unremarkable disagreement over methods to scientific incompetence or misconduct. This...
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The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything from an unremarkable disagreement over methods to scientific incompetence or misconduct. This...
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We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...
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This paper's objective is to design a laboratory experiment to explore the effect of ambiguity on a subject's search … faced with ambiguity over wage distributions. …
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ambiguity induces a significant increase in the performance of men who choose to compete, while we observe no change for women …. Men also increase their willingness to enter competition in the presence of ambiguity. Overall, both effects contribute to … men winning the tournament significantly more often than women under uncertainty and ambiguity. These findings suggest …
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We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to …) and are less likely to save money. Experimental measures for risk and ambiguity attitudes are only weak predictors of …
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individuals use this ambiguity strategically as a moral wiggle room to act less generously without feeling guilty. Such excuse … importance of excuse-driven behavior is comparable under ambiguity and under risk. Individuals exploit any type of uncertainty as …
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Probabilistic risk beliefs are key drivers of economic and health decisions, but people are not always certain about their beliefs. We study these "imprecise probabilities", also known as ambiguous beliefs. We show that imprecision is measurable separately from the levels of risk beliefs. People...
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, ambiguity, and competitiveness. Our subjects include migrants and non-migrants. We find that, migrants exhibit no differences … from non-migrants in risk and ambiguity preferences elicited using pairs of lotteries; however, migrants are significantly …
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