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Self-Confidence and Social Interactions
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2021
This paper studies the interactions between an individual's self esteem and his social environment in the workplace, at school, and in personal relationships. Because a person generally has only imperfect knowledge of his own abilities, people who derive benefits from his performance (parent,...
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Managing Self-Confidence : Theory and Experimental Evidence
Mobius, Markus M. - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125581
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Crime and Punishment Again : the Economic Approach with a Psychological Twist
Dickens, William T. - 2021
Akerlof and Dickens (1982) suggested that in a model of criminal behavior which considered the effects of cognitive dissonance, increasing the severity of punishment could increase the crime rate. This paper demonstrates that that conjecture was correct. With cognitive dissonance, people may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245536
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Long-Term Care of the Disabled Elderly : Do Children Increase Caregiving by Spouses?
Pezzin, Liliana E. - 2010
Do adult children affect the care elderly parents provide each other? We develop two models in which the anticipated behavior of adult children provides incentives for elderly parents to increase care for their disabled spouses. The quot;demonstration effectquot; postulates that adult children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758396
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Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination : An Identification Problem
Bohren, J. Aislinn - 2019
Discrimination has been widely studied in the social sciences. Economists often categorize the source of discrimination as either taste-based or statistical—a valuable distinction for policy design and welfare analysis. In this paper, we highlight that in many situations economic agents may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868737
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Do Religious Proscriptions Matter? Evidence from a Theory-Based Test
Hungerman, Daniel M. - 2011
A large literature shows that religious participation is associated with a wide range of behaviors and outcomes, but what drives this association is unclear. On the one hand, this association may stem from correlations in preferences, where those with tastes for religion coincidentally have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120984
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Economic Analysis of Social Interactions
Manski, Charles F. - 2021
rigor of modern economic analysis. Major theoretical developments in game theory, the economics of the family, and … endogenous growth theory have taken place. Economists have also performed new empirical research on social interactions, but the … empirical literature does not show progress comparable to that achieved in economic theory. This paper examines why and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239146
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Risky Behavior Among Youths : An Economic Analysis
Gruber, Jonathan - 2021
There are a host of potentially risky behaviors in which youth engage, which have important implications for both their well being as youth and their life prospects. The past decade has seen dramatic shifts in the intensity with which youths pursue these risky activities: for example, youth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234927
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Social Identity and Preferences
Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2009
Social identities prescribe behaviors for people. We identify the marginal behavioral effect of these norms on discount rates and risk aversion by measuring how laboratory subjects' choices change when an aspect of social identity is made salient. When we make ethnic identity salient to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012767030
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Field Experiments on Discrimination
Bertrand, Marianne - 2016
This article reviews the existing field experimentation literature on the prevalence of discrimination, the consequences of such discrimination, and possible approaches to undermine it. We highlight key gaps in the literature and ripe opportunities for future field work. Section 1 reviews the...
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