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Falkinger, Josef - 2008

of individuals to information. Goods advertising is competing with political information for people's attention. This …

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Effect of perceptions and behaviour on access to and use of financial service: Evidence from South Africa

Annim, Samuel Kobina; Arun, Thankom; Kostov, Philip - 2012

This study investigates the effect of financial perception and behaviour on; (a) general accounts and services, (b … three estimations support the hypothesis that financial perception has a greater effect on the decision to access and use … behaviour is greater than financial perception when making decisions on the take-up and use of investment financial services. It …

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Cognition and economic outcomes in the health and retirement survey

MacArdle, John J.; Smith, James P.; Willis, Robert - 2009

Dimensions of cognitive skills are potentially important but often neglected determinants of the central economic outcomes that shape overall well-being over the life course. There exists enormous variation among households in their rates of wealth accumulation, their holdings of financial...

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Economic conditions at the time of birth and cognitive abilities late in life: Evidence from eleven European countries

Doblhammer, Gabriele; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Fritze, … - 2011

changes in the early life economic environment on late life cognition. In European countries, about three to four economic …

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Hard evidence on soft skills

Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - 2012

This paper summarizes recent evidence on what achievement tests measure; how achievement tests relate to other measures of cognitive ability like IQ and grades; the important skills that achievement tests miss or mismeasure, and how much these skills matter in life. Achievement tests miss, or...

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Paintings and numbers: an econometric investigation of sales rates, prices and returns in Latin American art auctions

Campos, Nauro F.; Leite Barbosa, Renate - 2008

This paper uses a unique data set of Latin American paintings auctioned by Sotheby's between 1995 and 2002 to investigate several puzzles from the recent auctions literature. Our results suggest that: (1) the reputation of an artist and the provenance of the artwork, omitted variables in most...

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Explaining the favorite-longshot bias: Is it risk-love or misperceptions?

Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin - 2010

The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates of the probability of a horse winning - longshots are overbet, while favorites are underbet. Neoclassical explanations of this phenomenon focus on rational gamblers who overbet...

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Overconfidence is a social signaling bias

Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Goette, Lorenz; … - 2010

Evidence from psychology and economics indicates that many individuals overestimate their ability, both absolutely and relatively. We test three different theories about observed relative overconfidence. The first theory notes that simple statistical comparisons (for example, whether the...

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The impact of Chernobyl on health and labour market performance in the Ukraine

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2009

positive association between local area-level radiation dosage and health perception based on self-reported poor health status …

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The prostitute's allure: Examining returns to beauty, productivity and discrimination

Arunachalam, Raj; Shah, Manisha - 2010

We estimate the earnings premium for beauty in an occupation where returns to physical attractiveness are likely to be important: commercial sex work. In the commercial sex market, perhaps more so than any other sector in the labor market, the beauty premium should be at the extreme due to the...

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