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Anticipatory Anxiety and Wishful Thinking
Engelmann, Jan; Lebreton, Maël; Schwardmann, Peter; … - 2019
It is widely hypothesized that anxiety and worry about an uncertain future lead to the adoption of comforting beliefs …
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Born that way: Beliefs about genetics' importance and redistribution preferences
Pogliano, Andrea - 2024
's genetics. I investigate whether individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in … two workers earned based on their performance in a mathematical task. Across two treatments, I modify beliefs about the … study highlights that individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in …
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Public Speaking Aversion
Buser, Thomas; Yuan, Huaiping - 2020
Fear of public speaking is very common but we know little about its economic implications. We establish public speaking aversion as an economically relevant preference using three steps. First, we use a lab and a classroom experiment to show that preferences for speaking in public vary strongly...
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Time Pressure Preferences
Buser, Thomas; van Veldhuizen, Roel; Zhong, Yang - 2022
Many professional and educational settings require individuals to be willing and able to perform under time pressure. We use a lab experiment to elicit preferences for working under time pressure in an incentivized way by eliciting the minimum additional payment participants require to complete...
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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2005
Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...
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On the effect of anchoring on valuations when the anchor is transparently uninformative
Ioannidis, Konstantinos; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - 2020
We test whether anchoring affects people's elicited valuations for a bottle of wine in individual decision making and in markets. We anchor subjects by asking them if they are willing to sell a bottle of wine for a transparently uninformative random price. We elicit subjects'...
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Why do oaths work? Image concerns and credibility in promise keeping
Kingsuwankul, Sorravich; Tergiman, Chloe; Villeval, … - 2023
We use a laboratory experiment to understand the channels through which honesty oaths can affect behavior and credibility. Using a game with asymmetric information in a financial market setting that captures some important features of advisor-investor interactions, we manipulate the common...
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Disentangling Covid-19, Economic Mobility, and Containment Policy Shocks
Camehl, Annika; Rieth, Malte - 2021
We study the dynamic impact of Covid-19, economic mobility, and containment policy shocks. We use Bayesian panel structural vector autoregressions with daily data for 44 countries, identified through sign and zero restrictions. Incidence and mobility shocks raise cases and deaths significantly...
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Mental Health Literacy, Beliefs and Demand for Mental Health Support among University Students
Acampora, Michelle; Capozza, Francesco; Moghani, Vahid - 2022
This paper assesses the impact of a mental health literacy intervention on the demand for mental health support among university students. We run a field experiment with 2,978 university students from one of the largest Dutch universities. The literacy intervention provides information on the...
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Human Capital Formation, Income Inequality and Growth
Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - 2001
The paper studies the determinants of income distribution and growth in an overlapping generations economy withheterogenous households. Our framework has the following main features:heterogeneity of consumers with respect to wealth and parental human capital;intergenerational transfers,...
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