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Many everyday activities are habitual. Among the most common human activities is communication. If people primarily communicate in a common-interests environment, they may form habits of truth-telling and believing messages. If they primarily communicate in a conflicting-interests environment,...
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executive decision making in organizations. In our laboratory experiment, advisers are informed about the negative externalities …
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Who is wealthy? This paper presents empirical estimates of household movements into and out of the top percents of the wealth distribution over individual life cycles. There are life-cycle motives and precautionary motives for wealth accumulation. The opportunities to accumulate wealth create...
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Does attention have a causal impact on risky decisions? We address this question in a preregistered experiment in which …
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university students. We run a field experiment with 2,978 university students from one of the largest Dutch universities. The …
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We use a laboratory experiment to understand the channels through which honesty oaths can affect behavior and …
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provided from other sources. Halfway through the experiment, we provide information regarding the underlying value behind the … attributes, participants correctly recall the information at the end of the experiment. These results suggest that participants …
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Deciding how much to save for retirement is a difficult task that includes many uncertainties. In this paper, we use data from a representative Dutch household panel to study the impact of uncertainty regarding one's savings adequacy on retirement savings contributions and information search...
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-specific and decision-specific variation in attention and verify our framework in an eye-tracking experiment on risky choice. We …
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We analyze communication about the social returns to investment in a public good. We model two agents who have private information about these returns as well as their own taste for cooperation, or social preferences. Before deciding to contribute or not, each agent submits an unverifiable...
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