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biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to …As evidence is accumulating that subjective expectations influence behavior and that these expectations are sometimes … affect how people picture the future. This paper studies the role of public information dissemination, or publicity, in a …
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changing expectations about the evolution of the economic conditions in various countries. This paper addresses the first … expectations and current economic conditions at origin are significant determinants of migration, diversion effects account for 78 …
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the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and sons, and consequently their children …
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Extant evidence that the self-employed overestimate their returns by more than employees do is consistent with two mutually inclusive possibilities. Self-employment may generate optimism or optimists may be drawn to self-employment. This paper finds that employees who will be self-employed in...
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cultural identity and financial expectations and by large unrelated to economic background variables like income inequality. We … find evidence that negative financial expectations are positively related to Euroskepticism in Western European countries …
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candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …, we manipulate the rational expectations of subjects and check whether this manipulation influences their effort provision …-based reference-dependent preferences: if expectations are high, subjects work longer and earn more money than if expectations are low. …
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-reported assessments of the variables of interest as well as an unusually detailed amount of information on behavior, attitudes, and past …
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suggests that emigrants may have over-optimistic expectations about the incomes they can earn abroad, resulting in excessive … experiment with unique survey data on would-be emigrants' probabilistic expectations about employment and incomes in the … weight on the negative employment experiences of some migrants, and by inaccurate information flows from extended family, who …
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We use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving parametric and non-parametric measures to capture expected wage risk. These wage risk measures are unfettered by heterogeneity which handicapped the use of actual market wage...
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among second year students of Bocconi University convey information about their wage expectations. Detailed controls allow a …This paper explores the extent to which the gender wage gap is anticipated by workers' expectations. Data collected … clean matching with a sample of Bocconi graduates providing information about their actual wages. The evidence shows that …
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