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is operating, but can also lead to changes in relevant beliefs. We argue that such belief changes in how an individual … domains for which beliefs can change. Lastly, we discuss design options with which an undesired change in beliefs can be …
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components of culture: preferences and beliefs. Adopting the view that culture is one aspect of an individual's multi …; and ii) the capacity for culture to affect beliefs by randomly providing previous-session cooperation-rate information … beliefs. In particular, we find that culture’s effects through beliefs are as important as its effects through preferences. …
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Arguably, for many citizens the perceived expected disutility from sanctions is smaller than the monetary gain from tax evasion. Nevertheless most people pay their taxes most of the time. In a lab experiment, we show that the willingness to pay taxes even absent enforcement is indeed pronounced....
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Behaviourism is the view that preferences, beliefs, and other mental states in social-scienti�c theories are auxiliary …
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a concept of relevant beliefs, it is impossible to check from preferences whether a model is reflecting what the modeler …
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the prevalence of their own values and preferences when forming beliefs about others' values and preferences, depends on … the salience of own preferences. We manipulate salience by varying the order of elicitation of preferences and beliefs …
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This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach. The epidemiological approach studies the variation in outcomes across different immigrant groups residing in the same country. Immigrants presumably differ in their cultures but share...
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This paper studies the role of social connections in shaping individuals’ concerns about climate change. I combine granular climate data, region-level social network data and survey responses for 24 European countries in order to document large information spillovers. Individuals become more...
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Research on public goods mainly focuses its attention on the ability of incentives, beliefs and group structure to … difference can be explained by a shift in subjects' beliefs about contributions. We also find a significant impact of priming on …
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economics students increasingly supporting that belief, and other students increasingly disagreeing with it. Beliefs of students …
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