treatment. After the real effort task subjects were asked to state their retrospective beliefs about their performance in public …

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 …

performance in a structured face-to-face interaction. Privately elicited beliefs show that informed participants are 50% more …

informed that they can earn money by convincing others of their superior performance. The privately elicited beliefs of … informed subjects are significantly more confident than the beliefs of subjects in the control condition. By generating …