Effort is crucial for academic performance and varies by gender. However, it is not clear at what age nor under what circumstances gender differences in effort arise. Using behavioral measures of executive function from 799 fifth-grade students, we find no gender differences in cognitive effort...

This paper brings novel insights into group coordination and price dynamics in complex environments. We implement an overlapping-generation model in the lab, where the output dynamics is given by the well-known chaotic quadratic map. This model structure allows us to study previously unexplored...

Motivated by a popular perception that Roth accounts are welfare-improving for most people, this paper compares the effects of mandated Traditional (tax-deferred) or Roth (taxprepaid) retirement policies in a controlled laboratory setting. Selection effects, which complicate analyses of...