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We present the results of a pre-registered natural field experiment designed to uncover a sophisticated form of … discrimination against an immigrant minority in a market for credence goods. For this purpose, we introduce two markups: (i) the …-post survey suggest that this sophisticated form of discrimination is mainly due to the prejudicial behavior of sellers belonging …
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a disease (a discrimination risk). Differently, Consent Law allows them to hide this detrimental information, creating … exogenous values of adverse selection under Consent Law, and the repeated interactions experiment devised has not resulted in …
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We examine whether the desire for more information is people's dominant motive for reading economic and political news. Drawing on representative samples of the U.S. population with more than 15,000 respondents in total, we measure and experimentally vary people's beliefs about the...
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, we find that subjects' behavior is less consistent with theory and more in line with simple mental shortcuts. The …
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We study the impact of a fully-funded social security system in an economy with heterogeneous consumers. The unobservability of individual health conditions leads to adverse selection in the private annuity market. Introducing social security - which is immune to adverse selection - affects...
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We study the impact of a fully-funded social security system in an economy with heterogeneous consumers. The unobservability of individual health conditions leads to adverse selection in the private annuity market. Introducing social security — which is immune to adverse selection — affects...
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