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Should mothers work? : how perceptions of the social norm affect individual attitudes toward work in the U.S.
Cortés, Patricia; Koşar, Gizem; Pan, Jessica; Zafar, Basit - 2022
We study how peer beliefs shape individual attitudes toward maternal labor supply using realistic hypothetical scenarios that elicit recommendations on the labor supply choices of a mother with a young child and an information treatment embedded within representative surveys. Across the...
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Financial education and the debt behavior of the young
Brown, Meta; van der Klaauw, Wilbert; Wen, Jaya; Zafar, … - 2013
More than three-quarters of U.S. households bear consumer debt, yet we have little understanding of the relationship between financial education and the debt behavior of U.S. consumers. In this paper, we study the effects of exposure to financial training on debt outcomes in early adulthood....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333566
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Financial education and the debt behavior of the young
Brown, Meta; Klaauw, Wilbert van der; Wen, Jaya; Zafar, … - 2013
More than three-quarters of U.S. households bear consumer debt, yet we have little understanding of the relationship between financial education and the debt behavior of U.S. consumers. In this paper, we study the effects of exposure to financial training on debt outcomes in early adulthood....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201319
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Financial Education and the Debt Behavior of the Young
Brown, Meta - 2013
More than three-quarters of U.S. households bear consumer debt, yet we have little understanding of the relationship between financial education and the debt behavior of U.S. consumers. In this paper, we study the effects of exposure to financial training on debt outcomes in early adulthood....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075097
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Personal Experiences and Expectations about Aggregate Outcomes
Kuchler, Theresa; Zafar, Basit - 2015
We use novel survey data to estimate how personal experiences affect household expectations about aggregate economic … systematically extrapolate from recent locally experienced home prices when asked for their expectations about US house price changes … distribution over expected future national house price movements. We find similar results for labor market expectations, where we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401707
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Gender discrimination and social identity: Experimental evidence from urban Pakistan
Delavande, Adeline; Zafar, Basit - 2013
Gender discrimination in South Asia is a well-documented fact. However, gender is only one of an individual's many identities. This paper investigates how gender discrimination depends on the social identities of interacting parties. We use an experimental approach to identify gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333624
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An overview of the survey of consumer expectations
Armantier, Olivier; Topa, Giorgio; van der Klaauw, Wilbert - 2016
This report presents an overview of the Survey of Consumer Expectations, a new monthly online survey of a rotating … panel of household heads. The survey collects timely information on consumers' expectations and decisions on a broad variety … three main goals of the survey: (1) measuring consumer expectations at a high frequency, (2) understanding how these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796443
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Can subjective expectations data be used in choice models? Evidence on cognitive biases
Zafar, Basit - 2010
their subjective expectations about outcomes specific to different majors in their choice set. I do not find evidence of … suggests that students have well-formed expectations. Overall, the results paint a favorable picture for the use of subjective … expectations data in choice models. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287095
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Stereotypes and madrassas: Experimental evidence from Pakistan
Delavande, Adeline; Zafar, Basit - 2011
Madrassas (Islamic religious seminaries) have been alleged to be responsible for fostering Islamic extremism and violence, and for indoctrinating their students in narrow worldviews. However, we know very little about the behavior of Madrassa students, and how other groups in their communities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287150
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Personal experiences and expectations about aggregate outcomes
Kuchler, Theresa; Zafar, Basit - 2015
We use novel survey data to estimate how personal experiences affect household expectations about aggregate economic … systematically extrapolate from recent locally experienced home prices when asked for their expectations about US house price changes … distribution over expected future national house price movements. We find similar results for labor market expectations, where we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376179