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and epidemiologic evidence linking air pollution, cognition performance and real-world decision making, we first … have to be made. The decision-making process can be vulnerable to environmental stressors. Summarizing the growing economic … illustrate key physiological and psychological pathways between air pollution and cognition. We then document the main patterns …
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to a better understanding of the role of cognitive skills in decision making under uncertainty …
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' time and risk preferences. We find no influence on anchoring. However, even if biases are lower for people with higher …
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's preferences in different choice domains, such as risk-taking or saving, and how preferences in different domains are related to …
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We use natural experiments - plausibly exogenous, anticipated increases in the piece rate - to study how effort responds to incentives. Our first finding, like some previous studies, lends little support to the view that incentives increase effort: raising the piece rate has zero effect on total...
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decision making in complex decision tasks relative to conscious thought. Different from prior work testing this prediction, we … processing in complex decision making …
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Does it matter if you speak with a regional accent? Speaking immediately reveals something of one's own social and cultural identity, be it consciously or unconsciously. Perceiving accents involves not only reconstructing such imprints but also augmenting them with particular attitudes and...
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We explore two unexpected changes in flight regulations to identify the causal effect of aircraft noise on health. Detailed yearly noise metrics are linked with panel data on health outcomes using exact address information. Controlling for individual and spatial heterogeneity, we find that...
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Existing studies that evaluate the impact of pollution on human beings understate its negative effect on cognition …
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Exploiting recent concentration of flight patterns under a new Federal Aviation Administration policy (called NextGen …' home addresses to measure airport proximity, we find the risk of low birth weight babies increases by 17 percent among …
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