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Preferences - concerning time, risk and social interactions - systematically shape human behavior, and contribute to … fundamental preferences. Our data consist of 80,000 individuals in 76 representative country samples with measures on willingness … to take risks, patience, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity as well as trust. Gender differences in preferences …
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Price surges often generate social disapproval and requests for regulation and price controls, but these interventions may cause inefficiencies and shortages. To study how individuals perceive and reason about sudden price increases for different products under different policy regimes, we...
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personality skills and preferences. They predict and cause important life outcomes such as wages, health, and longevity. Skills … analysis of human differences by providing anchored measures of economic preferences and studying their links to personality … skills and preferences required to characterize essential differences. …
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We study the effects of laws streamlining access to post-conviction forensic DNA technology ("DNA laws"). We present a conceptual framework in which DNA laws' effects differ by race due to unequal access to non-DNA exoneration technologies. Consistent with the framework's predictions, we find...
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The memory people have of their past behavior is one of the main sources of information about themselves. To study whether people retrieve their memory self-servingly in social encounters, we designed an experiment in which participants play binary dictator games and then have to recall the...
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What preferences do partners hold over their relative income within the household? We provide a flexible framework of … preferences over relative income within the household that captures various motives, including inequality aversion and a … preference for being the primary earner. We study the role of these preferences for marital selection, separation and household …
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The social stress experienced by an individual from having a low relative income or from having a low income-based rank is a derivative of the individual's location in social space, and is the outcome of unfavorable comparisons with other individuals in that space. (The term social space stands...
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welfare effects of globalization and automation. The dashboard is meant to provide an empirical basis for mobilizing action in …
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Aggressive behavior against out-group members often rises during periods of economic hardship and health pandemics. Here, we test the widespread concern that the Covid-19 crisis may fuel hostility against people from other nations or ethnic minorities. Using a controlled money-burning task, we...
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Recent examinations into the cognitive underpinnings of ethical decision making has focused on understanding whether honesty is more likely to result from deliberative or unconscious decision processes. We randomly assigned participants to a multi-night sleep manipulation, after which they...
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