Misperceptions about others

L Bursztyn, DY Yang - Annual Review of Economics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Perceptions about others play an important role in shaping people's attitudes and behaviors,
as well as social norms more broadly. This review presents a meta-analysis of the recent …

Errors in probabilistic reasoning and judgment biases

DJ Benjamin - Handbook of Behavioral Economics: Applications and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Errors in probabilistic reasoning have been the focus of much psychology research and are
among the original topics of modern behavioral economics. This chapter reviews theory and …

Designing information provision experiments

I Haaland, C Roth, J Wohlfart - Journal of economic literature, 2023 - aeaweb.org
Abstract Information provision experiments allow researchers to test economic theories and
answer policy-relevant questions by varying the information set available to respondents …

Implicit stereotypes: Evidence from teachers' gender bias

M Carlana - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
I study whether exposure to teacher stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science
Implicit Association Test, affects student achievement. I provide evidence that the gender …

Immigration and redistribution

A Alesina, A Miano, S Stantcheva - The Review of Economic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Does immigration change support for redistribution? We design and conduct large-scale
surveys and experiments in six countries to investigate how people perceive immigrants and …

[PDF][PDF] Systemic discrimination: Theory and measurement

JA Bohren, P Hull, A Imas - 2022 - aeaweb.org
Disparities by race, gender, and other protected characteristics have been widely
documented in many important settings—such as employment, housing, criminal justice …

Overreaction in macroeconomic expectations

P Bordalo, N Gennaioli, Y Ma, A Shleifer - American Economic Review, 2020 - aeaweb.org
We study the rationality of individual and consensus forecasts of macroeconomic and
financial variables using the methodology of Coibion and Gorodnichenko (2015), who …

Identity, beliefs, and political conflict

G Bonomi, N Gennaioli… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present a theory of identity politics that builds on two ideas. First, when policy conflict
renders a certain social divide—economic or cultural—salient, a voter identifies with her …

The dynamics of motivated beliefs

F Zimmermann - American Economic Review, 2020 - aeaweb.org
A key question in the literature on motivated reasoning and self-deception is how motivated
beliefs are sustained in the presence of feedback. In this paper, we explore dynamic …

Gender in the twenty-first century

M Bertrand - AEA Papers and proceedings, 2020 - pubs.aeaweb.org
We study how childhood exposure to a nontraditional family (a working married mother, a
married mother that is the primary breadwinner, or a non-married mother) affects gender role …