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Studying information acquisition in the field: a practical guide and review

Capozza, Francesco; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher; … - 2021

We review the emerging literature on information acquisition in field settings. We first document an increase in studies on information acquisition and review relevant studies in different subfields of economics, including macroeconomics, political economy, labor economics, health economics, and...

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Do You Know That I Am Biased? An Experiment

Ludwig, Sandra; Nafziger, Julia - 2007

This experiment explores whether individuals know that other people are biased. We confirm that overestimation of abilities is a pervasive problem, but observe that most people are not aware of it, i.e. they think others are unbiased. We investigate several explanations for this result. As a...

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What Learning Models Tell Us to Expect in Three-by-Three Bimatrix Games

Bouchez, Nicole Marie - Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London - 2001

This paper extends several existing learning models to investigate their fixed points (their long run predictions of play). The fixed points of the model are not necessarily at the Nash equilibria of the payoff matrices but are a function of both the Nash equilibria and the parameters of the...

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A Look at Learning Models in Three-by-Three Bimatrix Games

Bouchez, Nicole Marie - Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London - 2001

Experimental data is used to test a variety of learning models using a model that extends several of the existing learning models. Generally, the parameter estimate are in the expected ranges. Individual agent parameter estimates indicate that there is considerable individual heterogeneity....

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Belief Formation and Evolution in Public Good Games.

Kovarik, Jaromir - Dipartimento di Politica Economica, Finanza e Sviluppo … - 2007

We analyze first-order beliefs in a variation of the Public Good Game. We show that (1) the role that belief … elicitation plays in the experiment affects both the contribution behavior and beliefs, and (2) framing influences stated beliefs … initial beliefs, and provide an empirical model of the belief up-dating process. Subjects use the past experience, stressing …

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Behavioral Response to an Anti Malaria Spraying Campaign, with Evidence from Eritrea

Locatelli, Andrea; Carneiro, Pedro; Gebremeskel, Tewolde; … - 2011

It is sometimes argued that introducing Indoor Residual Spray (IRS) in areas with high coverage of mosquito bed nets may discourage net ownership and use, which would hinder Malaria eradication rather than promote it. We analyze new data from a Randomized Control Trial conducted in Eritrea in...

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Transparency and trust in government: Evidence from a survey experiment

Alessandro, Martin; Lagomarsino, Bruno Cardinale; … - 2019

Does providing information improve citizens' perception about government transparency? Does all information matter the same for shaping perceptions about the government? This paper addresses these questions in the context of an online randomized survey experiment conducted in Argentina. Results...

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Turning Opposition into Support to Immigration: The Role of Narratives

Cattaneo, Cristina; Grieco, Daniela - 2020

relationship between beliefs, attitude and behaviour and identifies the sequential channels through which a narrative might be … natives a favourable narrative about migrants. Treated subjects revise their beliefs about migrants and exhibit significantly … more positive self-reported attitudes and more pro-migrant behaviour. Moreover, they update beliefs in a way that gives …

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A foundation for probabilistic beliefs with or without atoms

Mackenzie, Andrew - In: Theoretical Economics 14 (2019) 2, pp. 709-778

We propose two novel axioms for qualitative probability spaces (Bernstein, 1917; de Finetti, 1937; Koopman, 1940; Savage, 1954): (i) unlikely atoms, which requires that there is an event containing no atoms that is at least as likely as its complement; and (ii) third-order atom-swarming, which requires that...

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Explicit and implicit belief-based gender discrimination: A hiring experiment

Barron, Kai; Ditlmann, Ruth; Gehrig, Stefan; … - 2020

discrimination, explicit and implicit belief-based discrimination. Both rely on statistically inaccurate beliefs but differ in how …

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