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, additionally, in expectations of altruistic behaviour, in a sample of Amazon Mechanical Turk crowdworkers living in the US. In …
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Expectations about macro-finance variables, such as inflation, vary significantly across genders, even within the same …, which in turn produce systematic variation in expectations. Using unique data on the contributions of men and women to … household grocery chores, their resulting exposure to price signals, and their inflation expectations, we show that the gender …
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Expectations about economic variables vary systematically across genders. In the domain of inflation, women have … persistently higher expectations than men. We argue that traditional gender roles are a significant factor in generating this … gender expectations gap as they expose women and men to different economic signals in their daily lives. Using unique data on …
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Several recent studies show that immigrants exhibit higher levels of trust in public institutions than natives. This …, arguing that it is largely the relatively lower expectations of immigrants from countries with poorer institutional … performance that account for this difference. The eminent role of expectations is also underscored by the finding that low social …
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disappointing promisees' expectations, regardless of whether those expectations were induced by a promise (expectations per se … effect). Third, they are even more motivated to avoid disappointing promisees' expectations when those expectations were …-subject vignette design. Our results also shed light on how promising may contribute to the self-reinforcing creation of trust. …
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Why do individuals interpret the same information differently? We propose that individuals follow Bayes' Rule when forming posteriors with one exception: when assessing the credibility of experts, they "double-dip" the data and use already-updated beliefs instead of their priors. Our proposed...
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This paper demonstrates the prevalence, pervasiveness, persistence, and resilience of a system of non-Big God religious beliefs, in absence of religious organizations and moralizing prescriptions, thanks to a self-fulfilling mechanism based on social insurance. We focus on the Vietnamese’s...
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less productive. Consequently, lower expectations of partner productivity resulted in lower effort when individuals were …
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Inflation expectations are central to economics because they affect the effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policy as … well as realized inflation. We survey the recent literature with a focus on the inflation expectations of households. We … expectations are biased upwards, dispersed across individuals, and volatile in the time series. We also provide evidence of …
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