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. …

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. …

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 …

anticipatory utility from holding optimistic beliefs about their future effort costs. This study provides a rigorous empirical test … beliefs among workers, which causally increase the deferral of work to the future. The roots for biased beliefs stem from …