'D). We show that the health overconfidence displayed by approximately 30% of the survey respondents is a clear risk factor … cases and deaths. Recent research has shown that health overconfidence can influence risky behaviors such as smoking and … for the implementation of effective interventions to temper overconfidence, particularly in uncontrollable situations like …

Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data … listing suspension mechanism, i.e., the ST designation, adopted by China's securities regulatory agency appears to be … literature on economic transition, our findings suggest that any fundamental improvement in China's corporate governance will …

participation. Using national representative samples of the elderly in US and China, we find that people with lower socio …-economic status and poorer health are relatively less likely to realize how unhealthy they are and this overconfidence is associated …

labor market trajectories. Using an experiment to derive students' levels of overconfidence, and preferences for … and overconfidence, but not risk aversion, is systematically related with expectations about future earnings: individuals … in overconfidence and competitiveness explain about 18% of the gender gap in earnings expectations. These experimental …

: overconfidence and uncertainty about performance. Since task-based goal setting is low-cost, scaleable and logistically simple, we …

lead to a negative relationship between performance and overestimation, even if skill and overconfidence are unrelated. To … clarify the role of measurement error, we restate the Dunning Kruger effect in terms of skill and overconfidence. We show that …

value of overconfidence). We present first empirical evidence on the existence of a motivation value of absolute … overconfidence that many microeconomic models build on. Moreover, we document that debiasing information increases the accuracy of … offer a novel strategy for identifying significant overconfidence at the individual level. …

additional individual characteristics such as subjects' risk attitudes, measures of self-assessment and overconfidence, social … overconfidence affect worker self-selection, in particular into tournaments. Fourth, risk averse workers prefer fixed payments and …