We repeatedly elicit beliefs about the returns to study effort, in a large university course. A behavioral model of … quasi-hyperbolic discounting and malleable beliefs predicts that the dynamics of beliefs mirrors the importance of exerting … the hypothesized mechanism that beliefs serve as a means of self-control. …

' successes. In our model, both the agent's information and his beliefs are multi-dimensional, allowing us to study interactions … settings. Third, the agent's beliefs are subject to "bias substitution," whereby forces that decrease his bias regarding one … multi-dimensional beliefs possible, we develop tools for studying learning under high-dimensional misspecified models. …

Does identity influence economic behavior in the labor market? I investigate this question in rural India, focusing on … the effect of caste identity on job-specific labor supply. In a field experiment, laborers choose whether to take up … payments to avoid job offers that conflict with their caste identity, regardless of whether these decisions are made in private. …

consisted of an "Altruistic Identity" treatment arm, which primed teachers altruistic identity by making it more salient, and an …

background, language and diet to investigate the relationship between cultural identity, trust and cooperation. Subjects with …-reported identity, a mainstay of the survey literature, had no predictive power. This highlights the importance of identity but only …

This paper investigates whether social identity considerations-through beliefs and normsdrive women's occupational …-selection patterns change. Analysis of those patterns suggests that identity considerations act as barriers to entering the technology … sector and that some high-cognitive skill women do not apply because of their high identity costs. …

strategies consisted of an "Altruistic Identity" treatment arm, which primed teachers' altruistic identity by making it more …

This chapter introduces identity utility to the study of (un)employment and (un)happiness. The concept is described in … the loss of identity utility relative to other nonmonetary consequences of joblessness, such as fewer social contacts and … unaffected, which points to a major relevance of the loss of identity. This view is corroborated further by studies on the …