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We investigate the link between biased beliefs about immigrants, economic concerns and policy preferences. Conducting … representative survey experiments with more than 8000 respondents, we first document substantial biases in respondents' beliefs about … heterogeneity, we find that prior beliefs about immigration explain conditional average treatment effects. While attitudinal change …
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We present first experimental evidence that relative performance feedback improves both the speed and quality with which challenging long-term tasks are completed. Providing university students with ongoing relative feedback on accumulated course credits accelerates graduation by 0.12 SD, and...
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This paper investigates ambiguity attitudes for natural events (temperatures) and how they are updated following new information. Using a general population sample, we first obtain baseline ambiguity attitudes for future weather events based on real temperatures over several past days. Second,...
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their content effectively to update their beliefs. To answer these questions, I set up an online experiment informed by a … number of available sources increases. Also, ceteris paribus, their performance in updating their beliefs using the selected …
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realized - affects belief updating. According to the Bayesian benchmark, beliefs updated after exposure to new information … should be equivalent to beliefs assessed for the contingency of receiving such information. Using an experiment, we decompose …
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We investigate how college students form and update their beliefs about future earnings using a unique information … information causes respondents to update their beliefs about their own future earnings. We show that college students are … substantially misinformed about population earnings and logically revise their self-beliefs in response to the information we …
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, presenting evidence that people overweight 'good news' relative to 'bad news' when updating ego-relevant beliefs. In this paper …
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This paper investigates the direct and indirect effects of others' beliefs on respondents' own beliefs and consumer … pandemic, we implement two information treatments. Both treatments contain cross-country information about others' beliefs … sentiment in Vietnam is strongly affected by both treatments when the information goes against respondents' prior beliefs. …
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This paper investigates the direct and indirect effects of others’ beliefs on respondents’ own beliefs and consumer … pandemic, we implement two information treatments. Both treatments contain cross-country information about others’ beliefs … sentiment in Vietnam is strongly affected by both treatments when the information goes against respondents’ prior beliefs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582073
This paper investigates the direct and indirect effects of others' beliefs on respondents' own beliefs and consumer … pandemic, we implement two information treatments. Both treatments contain cross-country information about others' beliefs … sentiment in Vietnam is strongly affected by both treatments when the information goes against respondents’ prior beliefs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500548