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neural responses to the pertinent prospects when they are not engaged in actual decision making. The ability to make such …
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observable exogenous causes. We explore an alternative approach that generates predictions based on relationships across decision … experiment, we find that this method yields accurate estimates of price sensitivities for a collection of products under …
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experiment, face-to-face communication with a randomly assigned peer significantly improves the quality of private decisions … transmits financial decision-making skills most effectively when peers are equally uninformed, rather than when an informed … decision maker teaches an uninformed peer. Qualitative analysis of subjects' discussions supports this interpretation. The …
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versus equal outcomes). In a laboratory experiment, the most common behavioral pattern is for subjects to select the ex ante …
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Criteria for evaluating school choice mechanisms are first, whether truth-telling is sometimes punished and second, how efficient the match is. With common knowledge preferences, Deferred Acceptance (DA) dominates the Boston mechanism by the first criterion and is ambiguously ranked by the...
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choice high performing women choose the hard task significantly more often, at a rate now similar to the decision of men …
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experiment perform a real task under a non-competitive piece rate and a competitive tournament scheme. Although there are no … decision. Furthermore, while men are more optimistic about their relative performance, differences in beliefs only explain a …
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for women to "lean-in." We use a laboratory experiment to examine the effect of leaning-in. Despite men and women …
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This paper summarizes research on gender differences in economic settings. I discuss gender differences in attitudes toward competition, altruism and the closely related issue of cooperation, and risk preferences. While gender differences in competition are large and robust, the results are much...
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(real effort) in a longitudinal experiment. We pair those effort choices with a companion monetary discounting study. We … confirm very limited time inconsistency in monetary choices. However, subjects show considerably more present bias in effort …. Furthermore, present bias in the allocation of work has predictive power for demand of a meaningfully binding commitment device …
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