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from n=402 participants prescreened by political and religious beliefs. Participants were administered the online task that … examined selective information exposure and perceived strength of arguments that are incongruent to one's own beliefs regarding …
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We study how differences in socio-economic background correlate with preferences and beliefs, in a sample of college … beliefs: subjects from the most affluent part of the city have more optimistic expectations on their counterpart …-group discrimination based on neighborhood identity. …
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least in part, driven by heterogeneities in beliefs: subjects from the most affluent part of the city have more optimistic … systematic evidence of out-group discrimination based on neighborhood identity. …
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discuss the measurement of subjective beliefs, including the role of incentives and ways to reduce measurement error. We also …
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Punitive anti-crime policies in the Americas have contributed to steadily increasing rates of incarceration. This creates prison overcrowding and can lead to recidivism. Harsh penalties are often demanded by citizens, making them politically attractive for politicians. Yet the contextual...
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, who adjust their ability beliefs downwards in response to feedback. …
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sample of US adults. Individual beliefs about social norms positively predict pro-climate donations, comparable in strength …
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We review the emerging literature on information acquisition in field settings. We first document an increase in studies on information acquisition and review relevant studies in different subfields of economics, including macroeconomics, political economy, labor economics, health economics, and...
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the prevalence of their own values and preferences when forming beliefs about others' values and preferences, depends on … the salience of own preferences. We manipulate salience by varying the order of elicitation of preferences and beliefs …
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when individuals derive anticipatory utility from holding motivated, overly optimistic beliefs about the workload they need … for motivated reasoning allows workers to hold substantially more optimistic beliefs and identify a causal link between … the exogenous variation in beliefs and the deferral of work to the future. This systematic belief-based delay of work …
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