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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"biased beliefs"”.
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Essays on Health Economics
… allowing that consumers may initially hold biased beliefs about their effective coinsurance rates (the average percentage of medical expenditures paid by consumers), which they may learn about via their reimbursement rates. The results suggest that consumers' initial beliefs significantly …
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Gender Inequities in Academe and Faculty Perceptions of Family-Friendly Policies
… participants' endorsement of gender-biased norms, and whether the faculty members who participated in this study are considering "opting-out" of academia. Key constructs that were explored include: the ideal worker norm, the motherhood norm, the maternal wall, and bias avoidance. …
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Essays on optimal insurance design
… The first chapter analyzes the role of biased beliefs for the optimal design of static and dynamic insurance contracts. Biased risk perceptions change the perceived value of insurance and the perceived returns to avoiding these risks. I show empirically that unemployed workers …
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The Motivated Creation and Use of Social Categories
… perceptually salient categories before applying biased beliefs about those categories. Here, I instead suggest that both the construction and use of social categories are themselves subject to motivational influences. In chapter 2, I present a theory of how motivations derived from structural …
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Experimental studies of arbitration mechanisms and two-sided markets
… reach an agreement if one of them has positively biased beliefs about the size of the pie.</p> <p>The third essay investigates the effects of different policies on price structure and consumer surplus in a two-sided market monopoly. In a laboratory environment, most of the monopolists charge a …
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Three Essays in Experimental Economics
… economics: that human decision makers hold biased beliefs about probability and that free-form communication between economic agents promotes cooperation far in excess of what standard theory predicts. First, Chapter 2 studies subjective probability, focusing on the well-established …
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Accelerating the delivery of climate targets: Technology and behaviour in the road to net zero
… considers how political institutions and public beliefs affect the urgency of decarbonisation. Climate action faces opposition from incumbents and vested interests. This has led to a culture of myopic climate policy, defined as a high long- to short-term mitigation ratio. Every year mitigation is …