Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's abilities …

about how such beliefs about one's own abilities causally influence choices is, however, sparse. In this paper, we use a …

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 …

Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's abilities …

decision makers in the family and the society. We test these alternative hypotheses running Dictators experiments in Italy, a …

goals, highlighting biased beliefs regarding own preferences as a relevant mechanism in the prediction errors. …

We study the origins of support for gender-related affirmative action (AA) in two pre-registered online experiments (N … treatments to disentangle the preference for AA stemming from i) perceived gender differences in productivity, ii) beliefs about … successfully altering beliefs about expected productivity differences. Our results suggest that AA choice reflects a more intrinsic …