Individual perceptions of income distribution play a vital role in political economy and public finance models, yet … in the distribution. Furthermore, the data supports the hypothesis that the selection process into the reference groups … consistent information on the own ranking within the income distribution to a randomly selected group of respondents. Confronting …

extent of p-hacking and publication bias by collecting and studying the universe of test statistics, 15,992 in total, from … difference in the distribution of test statistics from pre-registered studies, compared to their non-pre-registered counterparts …

The confirmation bias is a well-known form of motivated reasoning that serves to protect an individual from cognitive …. Because there is often systematic thought involved in generating the confirmation bias, deliberation tends to promote this … behavioral bias. Nevertheless, the importance of negative emotion in triggering the need for this bias is underappreciated. This …

data.The bias is procyclical and is reduced by more than 10% in recessions. We propose an algorithm that uses earnings and …

capacity constraints resulting in significant recall bias. We offer the first study that employs a less-costly, imputation … other contexts, including for other types of variables that suffer from similar recall bias, these results could open up a …

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 …