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Evidence from social psychology suggests that agents process information about their own ability in a biased manner. This evidence has motivated exciting research in behavioral economics, but has also garnered critics who point out that it is potentially consistent with standard Bayesian...
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We conduct a laboratory experiment on the determinants of beliefs about own and others' ability across different domains. A preliminary look at the data points to two distinct forces: miscalibration in estimating performance depending on the difficulty of tasks and gender stereotypes. We develop...
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The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a combination of mandates, subsidies, marketplaces, and Medicaid expansions, most of which took effect in 2014. We use data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine...
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We investigate a novel determinant of household financial delinquency, namely, people's subjective expectations regarding the cost-benefit trade-off in default decisions. These expectations are determined by individuals' self-efficacy, which is a non-cognitive ability that measures how strongly...
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have. We present evidence from a randomized experiment which tests the effectiveness of individualized student coaching …. Over the course of two separate school years, InsideTrack, a student coaching service, provided coaching to students from … be attending the university one year after the coaching had ended. Coaching also proved a more cost-effective method of …
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some improvement from coaching-based interventions on mental health and study time, but none of the interventions we … plan to, though our interventions do not alter this tendency. The coaching interventions make some students realize that …
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Women in the Economics Profession of the American Economics Association established the CeMENT mentoring workshop to support …
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We analyze the promotions and firings of NCAA Division 1 college basketball and college football coaches to assess whether these coaches are rewarded for the academic performance of their players in promotion and retention decisions. We find that an increase in Academic Progress Rate, as...
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While much has been written about the potential benefits of mentoring in academia, very little research documents its … effectiveness. We present data from a randomized controlled trial of a mentoring program for female economists organized by the … Economics Association. To our knowledge, this is the first randomized trial of a mentoring program in academia. We evaluate the …
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One potential method to increase the success of female graduate students in economics may be to encourage mentoring … such mentoring relationships, perhaps because of role-model effects. A more direct method of promoting such relationships …
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