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We report and analyze the results of a series of classroom experiments on the voluntary provision of public goods. Using fixed effect panel regression models we find that cooperation significantly increases when participants are forced to guess the degree of overall cooperation. We also find...
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procrastination based on expectations and prospect theory, which differs signficantly from the prevalent model of O’Donoghue and Rabin …
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theories have assumed that the U-shape is caused by unmet expectations that are felt painfully in midlife but beneficially … abandoned and experienced with less regret during old age. In a unique panel of 132,609 life satisfaction expectations matched … support theories that unmet expectations drive the age U-shape in wellbeing. …
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propose to test whether including information on data revisions helps to model properties of expectations, improve … on tests of expectations …
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. Similarities between a priori information (expectations) and a posteriori information (realizations) are assessed for four …. Public and private enterprises are not differentiated by interpretation of expectations horizon and therefore can be studied …
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We compare forecasts from different adaptive learning algorithms and calibrations applied to US real-time data on inflation and growth. We find that the Least Squares with constant gains adjusted to match (past) survey forecasts provides the best overall performance both in terms of forecasting...
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We study the term structure of disagreement of professional forecasters for key macroeconomic variables. We document a novel set of facts: 1) forecasters disagree at all horizons, including the very long run; 2) the shape of the term structure of disagreement differs markedly across variables:...
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, almost all of them has focused on an ex-post impact; leaving aside a second but equally important channel: expectations. This … paper aims to analyze the role of expectations on peruvian formal and informal labor market; using news as our … a negative relation between expectations towards a stricter labor market and both employment and average income. News …
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-optimistic expectations about the incomes they can earn abroad suggest excessive migration pressure. Yet there is almost no statistical … natural emigration experiment with unique survey data on would-be emigrants' probabilistic expectations about employment and … conditional labor earnings at all points in the distribution for males, but reasonably accurate expectations for females. This …
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We show how young people's expectations about application to university change during the teenage years, drawing on the … combination of the two. We document the relationship between expectations about university application and the decision on whether … to stay on in full-time education at 16. We point to the importance of schools in sustaining or changing expectations. We …
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