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Recession Experiences during Early Adulthood Shape Prosocial Attitudes Later in Life

Bietenbeck, Jan; Sunde, Uwe; Thiemann, Petra - 2023

This paper explores whether the experience of a severe recession during early adulthood shapes individuals' prosocial attitudes. The analysis uses survey responses to experimentally validated questions that measure prosocial attitudes for approximately 65,000 respondents in 75 countries. The...

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On the Malleability of Implicit Attitudes Towards Women Empowerment: Evidence from Tunisia

Nillesen, Eleonora; Grimm, Michael; Goedhuys, Micheline; … - 2019

We use an implicit association test (IAT) to measure implicit gender attitudes and examine the malleability of these attitudes using a randomized field experiment and quasi-experimental data from Tunisia. Women that appear most conservative respond to a randomized video treatment by reducing...

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Cultural Identity and Social Capital in Italy

Sgroi, Daniel; Redoano, Michela; Liberini, Federica; … - 2020

In a pre-registered experiment involving 1,547 subjects across three Italian cities we exploit regional variation in background, language and diet to investigate the relationship between cultural identity, trust and cooperation. Subjects with relatives (especially maternal grandmothers) who...

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Evaluating the Sunk Cost Effect

Ronayne, David; Sgroi, Daniel; Tuckwell, Anthony - 2021

We provide experimental evidence of behavior consistent with the sunk cost effect. Subjects who earned a lottery via a real-effort task were given an opportunity to switch to a dominant lottery; 23% chose to stick with their dominated lottery. The endowment effect accounts for roughly only one...

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Limited Self-Knowledge and Survey Response Behavior

Falk, Armin; Neuber, Thomas; Strack, Philipp - 2021

We study response behavior in surveys and show how the explanatory power of self-reports can be improved. First, we develop a choice model of survey response behavior under the assumption that the respondent has imperfect self-knowledge about her individual characteristics. In panel data, the...

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Order Effects in Eliciting Preferences

Kopsacheilis, Orestis; Goerg, Sebastian J. - 2023

Having an accurate account of preferences help governments design better policies for their citizens, organizations develop more efficient incentive schemes for their employees and adjust their product to better suit their clients' needs. The plethora of elicitation methods most commonly used...

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War and Peace: How Economic Prospects Drive Conflictuality

Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie Claire; Zhang, Zhengping; … - 2025

We experimentally study how economic prospects and power shifts affect the risk of conflict through a dynamic power rivalry game. Players decide whether to maintain the status quo or challenge a rival under declining, constant, or growing economic prospects. We find that conflict rates are...

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Can Online Surveys Represent the Entire Population?

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Simon, Lisa; … - 2018

A general concern with the representativeness of online surveys is that they exclude the "offline" population that does not use the internet. We run a large-scale opinion survey with (1) onliners in web mode, (2) offliners in face-to-face mode, and (3) onliners in face-to-face mode. We find...

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How Does Consumption Respond to News about Inflation? Field Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial

Coibion, Olivier; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Gorodnichenko, … - 2019

We implement a survey of Dutch households in which random subsets of respondents receive information about inflation …. The resulting exogenously generated variation in inflation expectations is used to assess how expectations affect … subsequent monthly consumption decisions relative to those in a control group. The causal effects of elevated inflation …

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Forward Guidance and Household Expectations

Coibion, Olivier; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Gorodnichenko, … - 2020

of inflation, mortgage rates, and unemployment to the effects of communication about future inflation in a randomized … then provide 22 different forms of information regarding past, current and/or future inflation and interest rates … beyond one year do not have any additional impact on forecasts. Exogenous variation in inflation expectations transmits into …

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