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Motivated Beliefs and the Elderly's Compliance with COVID-19 Measures
(2021-01-26)
Although the elderly are more vulnerable to COVID-19, the empirical evidence suggests that they do not behave more cautiously in the pandemic than younger individuals. This theoretical model argues that some individuals ...
Biases in Information Selection and Processing: Survey Evidence from the Pandemic
(2021-02-10)
How people form beliefs is crucial for understanding decision-making un- der uncertainty. This is particularly true in a situation such as a pandemic, where beliefs will affect behaviors that impact public health as well ...
The Impact of Temporal Framing on the Marginal Propensity to Consume
(2021-02-23)
We conducted a large-scale household survey in November 2020 to study how altering the time frame of a message (temporal framing) regarding an imminent positive income shock affects consumption plans. The income shock ...
Risk Taking, Preferences, and Beliefs: Evidence from Wuhan
(2020-03-24)
We study risk taking in a panel of subjects in Wuhan, China - before, during the COVID-19 crisis, and after the country reopened. Subjects in our sample traveled for semester break in January, generating variation in ...
Gender Differences in Financial Advice
(2015-03-04)
We show that financial advisors recommend more costly products to female clients, based onminutes from about 27,000 real-world advisory meetings and client portfolio data. Funds recommended to women have higher expense ...