Gasoline taxes can be employed to correct externalities associated with automobile use, to reduce dependency on foreign oil, and to raise…
How accurate are people when predicting whether they will vote? These self-predictions are used by political scientists to proxy for…
Research suggests that women are more likely than men to pass over opportunities to negotiate for higher compensation. Studies from the…
Financial, managerial, and medical decisions often involve alternatives whose possible outcomes have uncertain probabilities. In contrast…
Background: Recent evidence suggests that individual variation in risk taking is partly due to genetic factors.
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Economic activity can damage natural systems and reduce the flow of ecosystem services. The harms can be substantial, as our case studies…
We measure how receiving information about coworkers’ savings behavior affects recipients’ savings choices. Low-saving employees were sent…
Three randomized experiments found that subtle linguistic cues have the power to increase voting and related behavior. The phrasing of…
When making decisions, people sometimes deviate from normative standards. While such deviations may appear to be alarmingly common,…
We study the predictive power of approximately 2.5 million stock picks submitted by individual users to the “CAPS” website run by the…