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energy price beliefs. By running an artefactual field experiment with a representative sample of 711 participants, we gather … that participants with present bias are predicted to consume on average 9% more electricity than participants with time …
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In-group bias can be detrimental for communities and economic development. We study the causal effect of financial … constraints on in-group bias in prosocial behaviors - cooperation, norm enforcement, and sharing - among low-income rice farmers … in-group or out-group partners at village level. We find that in-group bias in cooperation and norm enforcement exist …
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We first provide evidence of some retail investors taking real trading (selling) decisions which are clearly sub-optimal even from an ex-ante perspective. We then show that these investors also exhibit stronger investment biases, namely, the disposition effect, underdiversification, preference...
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values in e-commerce platforms and rating web sites. By means of a field experiment that exogenously manipulates prior … ratings when evaluating their stay (i.e., social influence bias). Results show that positive social influence exists, and that … influence bias interpretation. Finally, also repeat customers are affected by prior ratings, although to a lesser extent with …
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Beliefs about collective outcomes, such as economic growth or firm profitability, play an important role in many contexts. We study biases in the formation of such beliefs. Specifically, we explore whether over-optimism and self-serving biases in information processing-documented for beliefs...
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This paper investigates the role of biased health perceptions as driving forces of risky health behavior. We define absolute and relative health perception biases, illustrate their measurement in surveys and provide evidence on their relevance. Next, we decompose the theoretical effect into its...
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values in e-commerce platforms and rating web sites. By means of a field experiment that exogenously manipulates prior … ratings when evaluating their stay (i.e., social influence bias). Results show that positive social influence exists, and that … influence bias interpretation. Finally, also repeat customers are affected by prior ratings, although to a lesser extent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014129159
We investigate the presence of gender bias in student evaluation of teaching (SET) scores with a natural field … experiment in India. We employ a novel experimental design, randomly assigning 504 economics students to an identical audiovisual … increase the ratings of female professors and lower the ratings of male professors. Our findings suggest that gender bias is …
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reframing of the ask amount increases donors and amount donated relative to daily reframing. A second field experiment targeted … to past donors, finds that the effect of sympathy bias on giving is smaller in percentage terms but statistically and … relevance of multiple behavioral theoretical constructs in the sympathy bias and charity domain within one field setting. Beyond …
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of an experiment using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We found that the preferred brand is not the only …
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