another and that the composition of income is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment that even in a simple … change consumption according to the suggestion of the label. A controlled laboratory experiment confirms this result and …

This high-stakes experiment investigates the effect on buyers of mandatory disclosures concerning an insurance policy …

policies that encourage active decision-making. In an experiment designed to study passive behavior, we document three main …

that emphasise circumstances rather than outcomes or effort. We link preferences to previously-measured cognition, and find … that high-cognition individuals are 35% more likely to always support such schemes. These preferences are not driven by … play in life, high-cognition individuals perceive outcomes to be more determined by luck …

This paper reports results from a unique two-stage experiment designed to examine the spillover effects of optimism and …

conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous …

. We disentangle these two elements empirically using data from a laboratory experiment. The main findings is that both …

economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices …