the desire to send positive signals to others about one's own skill; this suggests a either a bias in judgment, strategic … lying, or both. We provide evidence that personality traits strongly affect relative ability judgments in a pattern that is …

- personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in school, and in many other domains …

With ageing populations and a stronger reliance on individual financial decision-making concerning asset portfolios … changes in the early life economic environment on late life cognition. In European countries, about three to four economic …

valuation tasks. Also, adding context to the decision problem does not change this outcome. No ratio bias could be found in …The ratio bias - according to which individuals prefer to bet on probabilities expressed as a ratio of large numbers to … researchers especially in health economics emphasizing the policy importance of the phenomenon. Although the bias has been …

We characterize the bias of propensity score based estimators of common average treatment effect parameters in the case …

anchoring phenomenon in financial decision-making. We find that contestants anchor heavily on the initial dollar value of a clue … manifests itself among college students. Overall, our findings suggest anchoring plays a substantial role in financial decision … in their wagering decision, even though there exists no rational reason to do so. More than half of all wagers occur …