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19 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12945
Self-Perceptions about Academic Achievement: Evidence from Mexico City
Matteo Bobba, Veronica Frisancho
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11564
Looking at the Bright Side: The Motivation Value of Overconfidence
Si Chen, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
forthcoming in: European Economic Review, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10874
Can Financial Incentives Help People Trying to Establish New Habits? Experimental Evidence with New Gym Members
Mariana Carrera, Heather Royer, Mark Stehr, Justin Syndor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10794
Worker Overconfidence: Field Evidence and Implications for Employee Turnover and Returns from Training
Mitchell Hoffman, Stephen V. Burks
revised version forthcoming in: Quantitative Economics, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10611
Estimating the Relationship between Skill and Overconfidence
Jan Feld, Jan Sauermann, Andries de Grip
published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 68, 18-24
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10545
True Overconfidence, Revealed through Actions: An Experiment
Stephen L. Cheung, Lachlan Johnstone
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10283
Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments
Damon Clark, David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse, Mark Rush
forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9651
Social Insurance with Competitive Insurance Markets and Risk Misperception
Helmuth Cremer, Kerstin Roeder
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 138-147.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9481
Overconfidence and Health Insurance Participation among the Elderly
Wei Huang, Mi Luo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7579
Preferences and Biases in Educational Choices and Labor Market Expectations: Shrinking the Black Box of Gender
Ernesto Reuben, Matthew Wiswall, Basit Zafar
published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 2153-2186
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7322
Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets
Roland Benabou
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (2), 429-462
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7206
Risk Tolerance and Entrepreneurship
Hans K. Hvide, Georgios A. Panos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6425
Image and Misreporting
Mara Ewers, Florian Zimmermann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6411
Information and Competition Entry
Mara Ewers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5300
The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments
Ernesto Reuben, Pedro Rey-Biel, Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 83 (1), 111-117
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4840
Overconfidence is a Social Signaling Bias
Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Aldo Rustichini
revised version published as 'Overconfidence and Social Signalling' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (3), 949-983
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4285
A Model of Overconfidence
Bruce A. Weinberg
published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2009, 14(4), 502-515
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2794
Gender and Self-Selection Into a Competitive Environment: Are Women More Overconfident Than Men?
Lena Nekby, Peter Skogman Thoursie, Lars Vahtrik
published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100(3), 405-407
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2001
Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences and Gender
Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk
published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 556-590
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