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Great expectations? : experimental evidence from schools in Pakistan
Asim, Minahil; Jain, Ronak; Khandelwal, Vatsal - 2024
We study the effect of communicating student-specific teacher expectations on academic performance. We randomize … whether students (a) receive high-performance expectations, (b) are additionally paired with a classmate for encouragement, (c …) receive information about past performance, or (d) receive no message. Expectations increase math scores by 0.19σ, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015075980
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As if or What? – Expectations and Optimization in a Simple Macroeconomic Environment
Roos, Michael W. M.; Luhan, Wolfgang J. - 2008
In this paper we report the results of a laboratory experiment, in which we observed the behavior of agents in a simple macroeconomic setting. The structure of the economy was only partially known to the players which is a realistic feature of our experiment. We investigate whether subjects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264726
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As if or What? – Expectations and Optimization in a Simple Macroeconomic Environment
Roos, Michael W.M.; Luhan, Wolfgang J. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2008
In this paper we report the results of a laboratory experiment, in which we observed the behavior of agents in a simple macroeconomic setting. The structure of the economy was only partially known to the players which is a realistic feature of our experiment. We investigate whether subjects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738726
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"It's Not about the Money. It's about Sending a Message!" Unpacking the Components of Revenge
Molnar, Andras; Chaudhry, Shereen J.; Loewenstein, George - 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/10012179901
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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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The benefit of the doubt : willful ignorance and altruistic punishment
Stüber, Robert - 2019
Altruistic punishment is often thought to be a major enforcement mechanism of social norms. I present experimental … results from a modified version of the dictator game with third-party punishment, in which third parties can remain ignorant … initial ignorance. Remaining ignorant and choosing not to punish is not inappropriate. As a result, altruistic punishment is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119648
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Motivated Procrastination
Cordes, Charlotte; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon - 2024
Procrastination is often attributed to time-inconsistent preferences but may also arise when individuals derive anticipatory utility from holding optimistic beliefs about their future effort costs. This study provides a rigorous empirical test for this notion of 'motivated procrastination'. In a...
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Motivated Procrastination
Cordes, Charlotte; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon - 2023
Traditionally, economic models have attributed procrastination to present bias. However, procrastination may also arise when individuals derive anticipatory utility from holding motivated, overly optimistic beliefs about the workload they need to complete. This study provides a rigorous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467805
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Self-Deception : Adopting False Beliefs for a Favorable Self-View
Samad, Zeeshan - 2020
This paper explores how an individual can deceive herself in order to acquire a more favorable self-view. I present a theoretical model and a laboratory experiment in which each subject's donation to a charity gets transformed into an ambiguous lottery, i.e., a lottery where the winning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825635
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The Fake News Effect : Experimentally Identifying Motivated Reasoning Using Trust in News
Thaler, Michael - 2021
Motivated reasoning posits that people distort how they process new information in the direction of beliefs they find more attractive. This paper introduces a novel experimental paradigm that is able to portably identify motivated reasoning from Bayesian updating across a variety of factual...
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