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Locus of Control and the Preference for Agency

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Silva … - 2023

link locus of control to decision- making: (i) preference for agency; (ii) optimism and (iii) confidence regarding the … delegate the right to make an investment decision that generates payoffs for themselves and their agents. Extending the game to … agency, an effect that is driven by women. We find no evidence that locus of control influences optimism and confidence about …

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The Effect of Superstition on Health: Evidence from the Taiwanese Ghost Month

Halla, Martin; Liu, Chia-Lun; Liu, Jin-Tan - 2019

Superstition is a widespread phenomenon. We empirically examine its impact on health-related behavior and health outcomes. We study the case of the Taiwanese Ghost month. During this period, which is believed to increase the likelihood of bad outcomes, we observe substantial adaptions in...

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Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning

Benabou, Roland; Falk, Armin; Tirole, Jean - 2018

By downplaying externalities, magnifying the cost of moral behavior, or suggesting not being pivotal, exculpatory narratives can allow individuals to maintain a positive image when in fact acting in a morally questionable way. Conversely, responsibilizing narratives can help sustain better...

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Lost in Transmission

Graeber, Thomas W; Noy, Shakked; Roth, Christopher - 2024

For many decisions, people rely on information received from others by word of mouth. How does the process of verbal transmission distort economic information? In our experiments, participants listen to audio recordings containing economic forecasts and are paid to accurately transmit the...

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News, Emotions, and Policy Views on Immigration

Manzoni, Elena; Murard, Elie; Quercia, Simone; Tonini, Sara - 2024

How do emotions affect policy views on immigration? How do they influence the way people process and respond to factual information? We address these questions using a survey experiment in Italy, which randomly exposes around 7,000 participants to (i) sensational news about immigrant crimes,...

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Can Reminders Promote Regular Pro-Environmental Behavior? Experimental Evidence from Peru

Fuhrmann-Riebel, Hanna; D'Exelle, Ben; López Vargas, … - 2024

Tackling environmental pollution requires a permanent change in regular, repeated behavior of households. Bringing about change in such behavior may require interventions that are not limited to a single point in time, yet little evidence exists on how frequently we need to target households to...

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Fighting Climate Change: The Role of Norms, Preferences, and Moral Values

Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Chopra, Felix; Falk, Armin - 2021

We document individual willingness to fight climate change and its behavioral determinants in a large representative sample of US adults. Willingness to fight climate change – as measured through an incentivized donation decision – is highly heterogeneous across the population. Individual...

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Limited Self-Knowledge and Survey Response Behavior

Falk, Armin; Neuber, Thomas; Strack, Philipp - 2021

We study response behavior in surveys and show how the explanatory power of self-reports can be improved. First, we develop a choice model of survey response behavior under the assumption that the respondent has imperfect self-knowledge about her individual characteristics. In panel data, the...

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It Hurts to Ask

Benabou, Roland; Jaroszewicz, Ania; Loewenstein, George - 2022

We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be painful: since unawareness of the need can no longer be...

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Gambling Habits and Probability Judgements in a Bayesian Task Environment

Dickinson, David L.; Reid, Parker - 2023

Little is known about how gamblers estimate probabilities from multiple information sources. This paper reports on a preregistered study that administered an incentivized Bayesian choice task to n=465 participants (self-reported gamblers and non-gamblers). Our data failed to support our main...

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