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Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's abilities …
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about how such beliefs about one's own abilities causally influence choices is, however, sparse. In this paper, we use a …
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Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about whether such beliefs causally map into actions … shift beliefs, we find that beliefs can be shifted, which in turn shifts decisions. In our setting, the beliefs of low … and women react similarly to the treatment. However, men hold higher baseline beliefs, implying that women make better …
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Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's abilities …
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non-monetary. In two experiments, generosity is significantly higher in non-monetary contexts. Thus, the typical monetary …
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non-monetary. In two experiments, generosity is significantly higher in non-monetary contexts. Thus, the typical monetary …
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Cason and Plott (2014) show that subjects' misconception about the incentive properties of the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) value elicitation procedure can generate data patterns that look like - and might thus be misinterpreted as evidence for - preferences constructed from endowments or...
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We test the claim that game form misconception among subjects making choices through the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) value elicitation procedure provides an explanation for the endowment effect, as suggested by Cason and Plott (forthcoming). We employ a design that allows us to clearly...
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-monetary, and whether they involve utility gains or losses. In two experiments, generosity is higher in nonmonetary contexts. Thus …
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We examine whether the "Level-k" model of strategic behavior generates reliable cross-game predictions within an individual. We find no correlation in subjects' estimated levels of reasoning across two families of games. Furthermore, estimating a higher level for Ann than Bob in one family of...
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