Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Kirman, Alan; Marsili, Matteo - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 77 (2011) 3, pp. 382-392
This paper suggests that people can learn to behave in a way which makes them persistently unlucky or lucky. Learning from one's own experience, as it reinforces a few lucky or unlucky outcomes in early periods, will lead them to repeatedly make choices that lead to lucky or unlucky outcomes. In...