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The ability to uncover preferences from choices is fundamental for both positive economics and welfare analysis. Overwhelming evidence shows that choice is stochastic, which has given rise to random utility models as the dominant paradigm in applied microeconomics. However, as is well known, it...
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Parents make important choices for their children in many areas of life, yet the empirical literature on this topic is scarce. We study parents’ competitiveness choices for their children by combining two large-scale artefactual field experiments with high-quality longitudinal administrative...
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How can naiveté about present bias persist despite experience? To answer this question, our experiment investigates …. While we find that participants are present biased and initially naive about their bias, our methodology enables us to … results suggest that persistent naiveté cannot be explained by a fundamental inferential bias. At the same time, we find that …
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This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset of 19 … women receive systematically lower teaching evaluations than their male colleagues. This bias is driven by male students …' evaluations, is larger for mathematical courses and particularly pronounced for junior women. The gender bias in teaching …
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disadvantages are dispersed over numerous periods. We provide novel experimental evidence for “concentration bias”, the tendency to … days in exchange for a bonus that is concentrated in time: concentration bias increases subjects’ willingness to work by 22 ….4% beyond what standard discounting models could account for. In additional conditions and a complementary experiment involving …
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reduced reliance on intuitions. In none of the tasks are very high stakes sufficient to de-bias participants, or come even …
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European countries for more than a decade, we estimate time-varying individual level bias in ‘survival expectations' (BSE) at …
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elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its …
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costs. We provide the first evidence on consumer valuation of fuel economy from a natural experiment. We examine the short …
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We study the endowment effect and expectation-based reference points in the field leveraging the setup of the Socio-Economic Panel. Households receive a small item for taking part in the panel, and we randomly assign respondents either a towel or a notebook, which they can exchange at the end of...
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