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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 …

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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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Personal experiences and expectations about aggregate outcomes

Kuchler, Theresa; Zafar, Basit - 2015

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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

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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...

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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. …

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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...

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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 …

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An overview of the survey of consumer expectations

Armantier, Olivier; Topa, Giorgio; Klaauw, Wilbert van der - 2016

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The impact of COVID-19 on student experiences and expectations : evidence from a survey

Aucejo, Esteban; French, Jacob; Araya, Maria Paola Ugalde; … - In: Journal of public economics 191 (2020), pp. 1-15

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