Higher order beliefs - beliefs about others' beliefs - may be important for trading behaviour and asset prices, but have received little systematic empirical examination. We study more than twenty years of evidence from the Robert Shiller Investor Confidence surveys, which directly elicit...

We study how people's beliefs about the economy covary with household-level events, utilizing a unique link between Danish administrative data and a large-scale survey of consumer expectations. We find that compared to actual inflation, people's inflation forecasts covary much more strongly (and...

In dem vorliegenden Arbeitspapier werden Haltungen zu chronischer Armut anhand von Querschnittsdaten aus Entwicklungs- und Industrieländern auf der Basis der dritten Runde des World Values Survey (1994-1998) untersucht. Die Ergebnisse verdeutlichen, dass die Mehrheit der Befragten Armut als...

The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that influence career aspirations in students, including the role of university, gender, and parental education. The research methodology involved analyzing the attitudes of students at four universities in India using a closed-ended...