candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …, we manipulate the rational expectations of subjects and check whether this manipulation influences their effort provision …-based reference-dependent preferences: if expectations are high, subjects work longer and earn more money than if expectations are low. …

, while they are in line with recent models that focus on anger as the result of the frustration of expectations. …

candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …, we manipulate the rational expectations of subjects and check whether this manipulation influences their effort provision …-based reference-dependent preferences: if expectations are high, subjects work longer and earn more money than if expectations are low. …

informal competition have worse expectations on future sales growth, which in turn are associated with a lower probability of …

expectations of being better or worse off in the future. We find that homeowners have a higher level of material security than …

conclusions about the socio-economic factors that determine expectations. …

As evidence is accumulating that subjective expectations influence behavior and that these expectations are sometimes … biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to … real-life expectations formation process. For this purpose, an exceptional Dutch dataset on monthly expectations regarding …

theories have assumed that the U-shape is caused by unmet expectations that are felt painfully in midlife but beneficially … abandoned and experienced with less regret during old age. In a unique panel of 132,609 life satisfaction expectations matched … support theories that unmet expectations drive the age U-shape in wellbeing. …

about how teachers form expectations and whether their expectations are systematically biased. We investigate whether … student-teacher demographic mismatch affects high school teachers' expectations for students' educational attainment. Using a … student fixed effects strategy that exploits expectations data from two teachers per student, we find that non-black teachers …