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Saiz, Albert; Simonsohn, Uri - 2021

The internet and other large textual databases contain billions of documents: is there useful information in the number …

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Consumer Search Costs and Preferences on the Internet

Jolivet, Grégory - 2014

We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted … and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price …

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Does the Internet Increase the Job Finding Rate? Evidence from a Period of Internet Expansion

Denzer, Manuel - 2018

We examine the impact of household access to the internet on job finding rates in Germany during a period (2006 …-2009) in which internet access increased rapidly, and job-seekers increased their use of the internet as a search tool. During … this period, household access to the internet was almost completely dependent on connection to a particular technology (DSL …

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Effects of an Online Self-Assessment Tool on Teachers' Digital Competencies

Abbiati, Giovanni; Azzolini, Davide; Balanskat, Anja; … - 2023

We evaluate the effects of an online self-assessment tool on teachers' competencies and beliefs about ICT in education. The causal impact of the tool is evaluated through a randomized encouragement design, involving 7,391 lower secondary teachers across 11 European countries. Short-run impact...

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Conspicuous Consumption in the United States and China

Jinkins, David Carson - 2014

I develop a model of conspicuous consumption to empirically measure the importance of peer beliefs to Americans and Chinese. In the model, a consumer cares not only about the direct utility she receives from consumption, but also about the way her consumption pattern affects her peer group's...

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How Did U.S. Consumers Use Their Stimulus Payments?

Coibion, Olivier - 2020

Using a large-scale survey of U.S. consumers, we study how the large one-time transfers to individuals from the CARES Act affected their consumption, saving and labor supply decisions. Most respondents report that they primarily saved or paid down debts with their transfers, with only about 15...

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Political Ideology, Mood Response, and the Confirmation Bias

Dickinson, David L. - 2022

The confirmation bias is a well-known form of motivated reasoning that serves to protect an individual from cognitive discomfort. Hearing rival viewpoints or belief-opposing information creates cognitive dissonance, and so avoiding exposure to, or discounting the validity of, dissonant...

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Parental Paternalism and Patience

Kiessling, Lukas; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; … - 2021

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure...

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Regular versus Lump-Sum Payments in Union Contracts and Household Consumption

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni - 2017

We use information on monthly wage increases set by collective agreements in Italy and exploit their variation across sectors and over time in order to examine how household consumption responds to different types of positive income shocks (regular tranches versus lump-sum payments). Focusing on...

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Does Reminding of Behavioural Biases Increase Returns from Financial Trading? A Field Experiment

De Paola, Maria - 2017

We ran a field experiment to investigate whether nudge policies, consisting in behavioural insight messaging, help to improve performance in financial trading. Our experiment involved students enrolled in a financial trading course in an Italian University who were invited to trade on Borsa...

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