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Gender Gaps in Financial Literacy: A Multi-Arm RCT to Break the Response Bias in Surveys

Hospido, Laura; Iriberri, Nagore; Machelett, Margarita - 2023

Gender gaps in financial literacy are pervasive and persistent. They are partly explained because women choose "I do not know" more frequently. We test for the effectiveness of three interventions to shift this behavior. The control survey includes the possibility of "I do not know". The three...

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Deliberation Enhances the Confirmation Bias: An Examination of Politics and Religion

Dickinson, David L. - 2020

Existing research has documented the confirmation bias in the domain of politics, but relatively little research has examined the confirmation bias in religion. I developed a novel task in the religious domain and compare confirmation bias evidence to that observed in the political domain. Using...

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Selection and Incentives under Time Pressure: The Importance of Framing

De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Pupo, Valeria - 2020

In this paper we investigate whether the framing of the incentives used to foster participation into contexts characterized by high degrees of time pressure affects individuals' self-selection. At this aim we run a lab-in-the-field experiment structured in two parts. The first part investigates...

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Does Information Change Attitudes Towards Immigrants? Representative Evidence from Survey Experiments

Grigorieff, Alexis; Roth, Christopher; Ubfal, Diego - 2016

We study whether providing information about immigrants affects people's attitude towards them. First, we use a large representative cross-country experiment to show that, when people are told the share of immigrants in their country, they become less likely to state that there are too many of...

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Can Reminders Promote Regular Pro-Environmental Behavior? Experimental Evidence from Peru

Fuhrmann-Riebel, Hanna; D'Exelle, Ben; López Vargas, … - 2024

-environmental behavior. To fill this gap, we investigate the impact of mobile text reminders on households' recycling behavior in urban Peru …, by randomly varying the frequency of reminders over a nine-week treatment period. We find that reminders increase both … before the intervention. The effects are stronger if reminders are repeated over a longer period. Our findings suggest that …

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Do Beliefs in the Model Minority Stereotype Reduce Attention to Inequality That Adversely Affects Asian Americans?

Chen, Shuai; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Wiese, Juliane V. - 2024

's attention to inequality that adversely affects Asians. In a nationally representative US sample (N=3,257), we find that around … significantly reduces people's attention to inequality that adversely affects Asians in a pattern detection hiring task, we find …

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A constitutional theory of the family

Cigno, Alessandro - 2005

The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The...

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A Constitutional Theory of the Family

Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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Passive Choices and Cognitive Spillovers

Altmann, Steffen; Grunewald, Andreas; Radbruch, Jonas - 2019

Passive behavior is ubiquitous - even when facing various alternatives to choose from, people commonly fail to take decisions. This paper provides evidence on the cognitive foundations of such "passive choices" and studies implications for policies that encourage active decision-making. In an...

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Do Losses Trigger Deliberative Reasoning?

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Munro, David - 2022

There is a large literature evaluating the dual process model of cognition, including the biases and heuristic it implies. To advance this literature, we focus on what triggers decision makers to switch from the intuitive process (aka System 1) to the more deliberative process (aka System 2)....

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