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modern behavioral economics. This chapter reviews theory and evidence on this topic, with the goal of facilitating more … processes, biases in belief updating, the representativeness heuristic as a possible unifying theory, and interactions between … for (and against) each putative bias, and I highlight when and how different biases may be related to each other. The …
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We combine a survey and an experiment with real pay-out among Peking University students to measure and validate individual risk attitudes. The experiment involves choosing between a cash payment and playing a lottery. The survey questions ask for the reservation price of a hypothetical lottery...
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This paper demonstrates that well-established biases in decision making under uncertainty can generate poverty traps. A theoretical framework is developed to demonstrate that: i) probability weighting and ambiguity attitude can lead individuals to erroneously undervalue profitable investments,...
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