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 …

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 …

bias on user-generated content platforms are rare. We develop a novel procedure to detect coverage bias – i.e., bias in the … disentangle coverage bias from unobserved heterogeneity between observations. We apply our procedure to Wikipedia and examine … whether it has a coverage bias in its biographies of German (and French) Members of Parliament (MPs). Our analysis reveals a …

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 … monetary payments, we study the mechanisms behind concentration bias and demonstrate the robustness of our findings …

to overconsumption and lost surplus. These errors are partially driven by mistaken beliefs about the value distribution …

-nationalist policies (which destroy productivity, compress the income distribution and promote the benefits of social affiliation) …

documented biases: base rate neglect, anchoring, failure of contingent thinking, and intuitive reasoning in the Cognitive … reduced reliance on intuitions. In none of the tasks are very high stakes sufficient to de-bias participants, or come even …