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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
punishment decisions: Do punishers want to make sure that transgressors understand why they are being punished, and is this …, preregistered experiment (N = 1,959) we demonstrate that consideration for transgressors' beliefs affects punishment decisions on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012166019
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Personal experiences and expectations about aggregate outcomes
Kuchler, Theresa; Zafar, Basit - 2015
We use novel survey data to estimate how personal experiences affect household expectations about aggregate economic … systematically extrapolate from recent locally experienced home prices when asked for their expectations about US house price changes … distribution over expected future national house price movements. We find similar results for labor market expectations, where we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376179
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Exposure to the COVID-19 Stock Market Crash and its Effect on Household Expectations
Hanspal, Tobin - 2020
expectations and planned behavior. Wealth shocks are associated with upward adjustments of expectations about retirement age … experimental evidence that beliefs about the duration of the stock market recovery shape households' expectations about their own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835653
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Exposure to the COVID-19 Stock Market Crash and its Effect on Household Expectations
Hanspal, Tobin - 2020
expectations and planned behavior. Wealth shocks are associated with upward adjustments of expectations about retirement age … experimental evidence that beliefs about the duration of the stock market recovery shape households' expectations about their own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836671
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Exposure to the COVID-19 stock market crash and its effect on household expectations
Hanspal, Tobin; Weber, Annika; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2020
expectations and planned behavior. Wealth shocks are associated with upward adjustments of expectations about retirement age … experimental evidence that beliefs about the duration of the stock market recovery shape households' expectations about their own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012223788
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The false consensus effect disappears if representative information and monetary incentives are given
Engelmann, Dirk; Strobel, Martin - 1999
In this paper we present an experiment on the false consensus effect. Unlike previous experiments, we provide monetary incentives for revealing the actual estimation of others' behavior. In each session and round sixteen subjects make a choice between two options simultaneously. Then they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581106
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Has Trump Damaged the U.S. Image Abroad? Decomposing the Effects of Policy Messages on Foreign Public Opinion
Agadjanian, Alexander; Horiuchi, Yusaku - 2021
The U.S. President Donald Trump has frequently made foreign countries central to his political messages, often conveying animosity. But do foreign citizens react more to the speaker of these messages -- Trump himself -- or their content? More generally, when people are exposed to messages sent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119298
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Institution formation and cooperation with heterogeneous agents
Kube, Sebastian; Schaube, Sebastian; … - 2014
Driven by an ever-growing number of studies that explore the effectiveness of institutional mechanisms meant to mitigate cooperation problems, recent years have seen an increasing interest in the endogenous implementation of these institutions. In this paper, we test within a unified framework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010414346
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Should mothers work? : how perceptions of the social norm affect individual attitudes toward work in the U.S.
Cortés, Patricia; Koşar, Gizem; Pan, Jessica; Zafar, Basit - 2022
We study how peer beliefs shape individual attitudes toward maternal labor supply using realistic hypothetical scenarios that elicit recommendations on the labor supply choices of a mother with a young child and an information treatment embedded within representative surveys. Across the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013441602
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America and its Immigrants: A Game of Mirrors
Portes, Alejandro - Center for Migration and Development Studies, Woodrow … - 2010
After a lapse of over half a century, the United States has again become a country of immigration. In 1990, the foreign-born population reached 19.8 million or 7.9 percent of the total. By 2008, the number had grown to 39.3 million or 13 percent of the total. Although not yet reaching the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150016