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on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and …We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based … own present bias, but molding their children's preferences towards more time-consistent choices. …
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We explore intertemporal decision-making in later life by looking at temporal preference heterogeneity among older individuals. Using choice tasks responses from Poland collected as part of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we elicit individual time preferences...
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Designing technical systems to be resistant to bias and discrimination represents vital new terrain for researchers …, policymakers, and the anti-discrimination project more broadly. We consider bias and discrimination in the context of popular … mitigating interpersonal bias. We argue that focusing on platform design can reveal opportunities to reshape troubling patterns …
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The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the … birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal choice. In a model of cooperative decision making within a family, we … show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …
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The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the … birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal choice. In a model of cooperative decision making within a family, we … show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …
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-regression analysis, we checked for the presence of publication bias after distinguishing among different journal subject areas and, once …
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This paper tests for bias in consumer lending decisions using administrative data from a high-cost lender in the United … applicants exploiting variation from the quasi-random assignment of loan examiners. We find significant bias against both … evidence of bias when using a short-run measure used to evaluate examiner performance, suggesting that our results are due to …
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Questionnaire (SDQ), in studies of children with same-sex parents using a recruited convenience sample. Study Design: Non … or unfavorable to children with same-sex parents for six subscale measures. Results: In the recruited samples 79 ….3 % (range: 75-83) of comparisons were favorable to children with same-sex parents, compared with no favorable comparisons (0 …
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