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season 2009-2010) and the UEFA Champions League (in season 2010-2011) was associated with lower referee bias. To this end, we … means of bivariate probit regression models. We find evidence for substantial referee bias before the introduction of … of referee bias and that they are not just picking up a general time evolution towards less referee bias or the effect of …
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improved the welfare of behavioral agents. We advance the notion of counter-biasing by demonstrating that one bias (present … bias) can be pit against another (choking at high stakes) to counteract the ill effects of the second. Our results …
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In this paper, we take a comprehensive and multidisciplinary look at terrorism sentencing decisions over a 17-year period, between September 2001 when the ATA was first conceived of and September 2018. In so doing, we first offer an empirical analysis of the sentences for all terrorism offenses...
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, increasing statistical power, reducing bias and enhancing credibility, meta-analysis is widely regarded as 'best evidence …
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gender bias in math are more likely to select a science track in high school. …
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new method to correct for attrition bias. We rely on a 10-years longitudinal data set with a final attrition rate of 10 …
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Overconfidence is a well-established bias in which someone's subjective confidence in their own judgments is … dramatic consequences. To test whether the overconfidence bias affects the decision of backcountry skiers to go on a ski trip …
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Evidence of Illusion of Control - the fact that people believe to have control over pure chance events - is a recurrent finding in experimental psychology. Results in economics find instead little to no support. In this paper we test whether this dissonant result across disciplines is due to the...
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This study looks at the effects of participating in active labour market policy programs for persons with work disabilities. More in detail, it draws attention to the importance of taking into account the timing of when a work disability has been registered for persons attending ALMP programs....
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In this paper the extensive empirical literature on the gender wage gap is reviewed with particular attention given to the identification of the key parameters in the specified human capital wage regression models. This aspect has been of great importance in the literature chiefly for two...
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