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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026094
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012166019
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038110
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781996
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014309747
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Social Security Reform in the US: Lessons from Hungary
Simonovits, András - 2006
The partial privatization of the US Social Security system was clearly the top economic policy priority for the new Bush administration. While many famous economists, publicists and politicians support, others reject the partial privatization of the Social Security system. The international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494349
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The Labour Market and the Job Miracle
Heckman, James J.; Agell, Jonas; Gertser, Florian; … - In: CESifo Forum 04 (2003) 2, pp. 29-48
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Economic perspectives on aging
Papadimitriou, Dimitri Basil (contributor) - 2007
The aging of the American population will be a critical public policy issue in the years ahead. This paper surveys the recent literature on the economics of aging, with a special emphasis on government spending on the aged. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that the proportion of the elderly in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003727006
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Smoking : taxing health and social security
Armour, Brian S. (contributor);  … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003730475
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The farm, the city, and the emergence of social security
Caucutt, Elizabeth M. (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper we study the social, demographic and economic origins of social security. The data for the U.S. and for a cross section of countries make it clear that urbanization and industrialization are strongly associated with the rise of social insurance. We describe a model economy in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759906