We hypothesized a phenomenon that we term myopic misery. According to our hypothesis, sadness increases impatience and creates a myopic…
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Although prior research suggests that fusiform gyrus represents the sex and race of faces, it remains unclear whether fusiform face area (…
Laura Sjoberg positions gender and gender subordination as key factors in the making and fighting of global conflict. Through the lens…
In this article we review the literature on financial literacy, financial education, and consumer financial outcomes. We consider how…
Book abstract: In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in behavioral research on a wide variety of topics, from behavioral…
Traditional models of why people vote conceptualize voting as a static, self-interested
decision. This conceptualization cannot explain why…
A principal provides budgets to agents (e.g., divisions of a firm or the principal’s children) whose expenditures provide her benefits,…
Please see RWP13-010 (April 2013) for the updated version of this working paper.
Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment affects fertility in…