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Anticipatory anxiety and wishful thinking

Engelmann, Jan; Lebreton, Maël; Schwardmann, Peter; … - 2019

It is widely hypothesized that anxiety and worry about an uncertain future lead to the adoption of comforting beliefs …

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"It's not about the money. It's about sending a message!" : unpacking the components of revenge

Molńar, András; Chaudhry, Shereen J.; Loewenstein, … - 2020

desire to affect beliefs often prioritized over distributive and retributive preferences? We test whether punishers derive … transgressor’s suffering), and cognitive states (the transgressor's beliefs about the cause of that suffering). In a novel …, preregistered experiment (N = 1,959) we demonstrate that consideration for transgressors' beliefs affects punishment decisions on …

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Information Acquisition in Competitive Markets : An Application to the US Mortgage Market

Burke, Jeremy - 2015

How do price commitments impact the amount of information firms acquire about potential customers? We examine this question in the context of a competitive market. Contracts are incomplete because the amount of information firms acquire about applicants during the screening process cannot be...

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Do natives' beliefs about refugees' education level affect attitudes toward refugees? : evidence from randomized survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Piopiunik, Marc; Simon, Lisa - 2017

exogenously shifted participants' beliefs about refugees' education level through information provision. Consistent with economic … theory, we find that beliefs about refugees' education significantly affect concerns about labor market competition. These …

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Fatal errors : the mortality value of accurate weather forecasts

Shrader, Jeffrey; Bakkensen, Laura; Lemoine, Derek - 2023

We provide the first revealed preference estimates of the benefits of routine weather forecasts. The benefits come from how people use advance information to reduce mortality from heat and cold. Theoretically, more accurate forecasts reduce mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in...

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Smoking: Taxing health and social security

Armour, Brian S.; Pitts, M. Melinda - 2006

While the health risks associated with smoking are well known, the impact on income distributions is not. This paper extends the literature by examining the distributional effects of a behavioral choice, in this case smoking, on net marginal Social Security tax rates (NMSSTR). The results show...

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Social Security's Five OASI Inflation Indexing Problems

Lovell, Michael C. - 2008

This paper examines five problems with the inflation indexing procedures used by the Social Security Administration of the United States in taking inflation into account when calculating Old Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Benefits. Because of Problem #1, the commingling of unindexed with...

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Social Security's Five OASI Inflation Indexing Problems

Lovell, Michael C. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-3, pp. 1-41

This paper examines five problems with the indexing procedures used by the Social Security Administration of the United States in taking inflation into account when calculating Old Age and Survivor Insurance (OASI) Benefits. Because of the commin-gling of unindexed with indexed earnings, a...

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Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards redistribution: a review of the literature

Stichnoth, Holger; van der Straeten, Karine - 2009

We review the empirical literature that studies the effect of ethnic diversity on the welfare state and on individual attitudes. The outcome variables that we cover in the survey are on the one hand public spending, and on the other hand individual attitudes and behaviour, including charity...

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A simulation method to measure the tax burden on highly skilled manpower

Elschner, Christina; Schwager, Robert - 2006

A model is presented for simulating the tax burden on highly skilled manpower. The effective average tax rate, defined as the relative wedge between employment costs and disposable income, is computed. Income and payroll taxes and social security contributions not yielding an equivalent benefit...

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