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process of motivated political reasoning in a preregistered online experiment with a nationally representative sample of 1 …
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internet as a primary information source for many people have created a new approach to keep track of people s interests. The … major gateways to the internet s information are the so-called search engines, and Google, arguably the most commonly used … search engine, allows scientists to tap the vast source of information generated by its users search queries. In this paper …
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We study consumer debt relief as a tool of distributive politics and ask if debt relief can influence elections. We utilize quasi-experimental variation generated by a very large debt relief program enacted in the Republic of Georgia by a private foundation that affected every sixth voter. We...
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Reporting private information is a key part of economic decision making. A recent literature has found that many people …
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This paper analyzes the effect of information overload on preference or aversion for variety. According to the model, a … rational decision maker who suffers from information overload, faces a two-stage decision process, and is choosing from a set … of unknown goods will find it optimal at some point to become variety averse. To test this hypothesis, an experiment is …
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In this note we shall discuss a concept that - despite its prominence in both Hume (1739) and Smith (1759), its obvious relevance for social behavior, and its not so infrequent use in colloquial language - has never gained a foothold in economic theory: the concept of empathy. Specifically, we...
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