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Measuring preferences over intertemporal profiles

Sun, Chen - 2023

Growing evidence indicates that utility over time is different from utility under risk. Hence, measuring intertemporal preferences (discounting and utility) exclusively from intertemporal choices is desirable. We develop a simple method for measuring intertemporal preferences. It is...

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(Dis)honesty and the value of transparency for campaign promises

Lang, Matthias; Schudy, Simeon - 2023

Promise competition is prevalent in many economic environments, but promise keeping is often difficult to observe. We … study the value of transparency for promise competition and ask whether promises still offer an opportunity to honor future … preferences for truth-telling shape promise competition when promise keeping can(not) be observed and identify the causal effects …

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Does a short-term increase in incentives boost performance?

Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2017

competition affect agents' performance? In a real-effort laboratory experiment, we study a one-time increase in incentives in a …

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Motivated procrastination

Cordes, Charlotte A.; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon - 2023

Traditionally, economic models have attributed procrastination to present bias. However, procrastination may also arise when individuals derive anticipatory utility from holding motivated, overly optimistic beliefs about the workload they need to complete. This study provides a rigorous...

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Metric and scale effects in consumer preferences for environmental benefits

Pleshcheva, Vlada - 2019

The present study investigates how the framing of information on the environmental impact of vehicles affects consumers' preferences for identical improvements in car quality. In online choice experiments, the effects of two metrics (fuel consumption vs. CO2 emissions) and three scales of one...

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Socio-economic status and inequalities in children's IQ and economic preferences

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia; … - 2019

This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well as less risk-seeking. To understand the underlying...

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Preference dynamics : a procedurally rational model of time and effort allocation

Krecik, Markus - 2024

Current time allocation and household production models face three major weaknesses: First, they only describe the average time allocation. Thus, information about the order of activities is lost. Therefore, it is impossible to describe the influence of activities on later ones. Such...

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Malleability of preferences for honesty

Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021

Reporting private information is a key part of economic decision making. A recent literature has found that many people have a preference for honest reporting, contrary to usual economic assumptions. In this paper, we investigate whether preferences for honesty are malleable and what determines...

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Can online surveys represent the entire population?

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Simon, Lisa; … - 2018

A general concern with the representativeness of online surveys is that they exclude the "offline" population that does not use the internet. We run a large-scale opinion survey with (1) onliners in web mode, (2) offliners in face-to-face mode, and (3) onliners in face-to-face mode. We find...

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Overconfidence and the political and financial behavior of a representative sample

Ahrens, Steffen; Bosch-Rosa, Ciril; Kassner, Bernhard - 2021

We study the relationship between overconfidence and the political and financial behavior of a nationally representative sample. To do so, we introduce a new method of eliciting overconfidence that is simple to understand, quick to implement, and captures respondents' excess confidence in their...

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