We perform an incentivized experiment designed to assess the accuracy of beliefs about characteristics and decisions … test two main hypotheses: (i) whether for items not perfectly observable, individuals suffer of some type of bias in these … beliefs; (ii) whether this bias would disappear for weight and height, when the information is perfectly available. We find a …

We perform an incentivized experiment designed to assess the accuracy of beliefs about characteristics and decisions … test two main hypotheses: (i) whether for items not perfectly observable, individuals suffer of some type of bias in these … beliefs; (ii) whether this bias would disappear for weight and height, when the information is perfectly available. We find a …

attitudes towards foreigners, political interest of foreigners, intergenerational conflict between natives and foreigners and … are negative attitudes towards foreigners and generational conflict within foreigner families. On the other hand, interest … are important positive factors. Negative experience of foreigners in terms of hostile attitudes, lack of voting rights, or …

Work Orientation module International Social Survey Programme to look at the attitudes of residents of these countries …

This paper considers the potential for the cultural transmission of attitudes toward work, welfare, and individual … incorporating welfare receipt into a theoretical model of the cultural transmission of work-welfare attitudes across generations …. Consistent with the predictions of our model, we find that young people's attitudes towards work and welfare are shaped by …

The paper studies opinions and attitudes towards immigrants and minorities and their interactions with other barriers …, the veracities and repercussions of unfavorable attitudes of natives. Employing newly available data from the IZA Expert … Opinion Survey 2007 we depict main trends in the integration situation of ethnic minorities in Europe in a comparative manner …

analysis takes into account the important distinction between average employer attitudes and the attitude of the marginal … employer. Our results confirm that the attitudes of the marginal employer - but not those of the average employer - are …

representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust … correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled workers and …

We provide experimental evidence of workers' by opinion conformity and of managers' discrimination in favor of workers … opinions before assigning unequal payoffs. In the Ingratiation treatment, workers can change their opinion after learning that … held by the manager. In the Random treatment, workers can also change opinion but payoffs are assigned randomly, which …