Search Results - "Bosworth, Steven"
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Technological advance, social fragmentation and welfare
Published in Social choice and welfare (01-03-2024)“…This paper models the welfare consequences of social fragmentation arising from technological advance. We start from the premise that technological progress…”
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Family Life in Lockdown
Published in Frontiers in psychology (04-08-2021)“…The lockdown imposed following the COVID-19 pandemic of spring 2020 dramatically changed the daily lives and routines of millions of people worldwide. We…”
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Cooperation, motivation and social balance
Published in Journal of economic behavior & organization (01-06-2016)“…•Our premise is that people have multiple, discrete, and context-dependent motives.•Our novel approach explains variation in cooperation across settings and…”
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Identity-Driven Cooperation versus Competition
Published in The American economic review (01-05-2016)“…This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in-group cooperation and out-group competition. On this…”
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Economic, social and political fragmentation: Linking knowledge-biased growth, identity, populism and protectionism
Published in European Journal of Political Economy (01-03-2021)“…This paper examines how economic fragmentation (widening inequality of skills, income and education) gives rise to social fragmentation (via incompatible…”
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The importance of higher-order beliefs to successful coordination
Published in Experimental economics : a journal of the Economic Science Association (01-03-2017)“…Beliefs about other players’ strategies are crucial in determining outcomes for coordination games. If players are to coordinate on an efficient equilibrium,…”
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Social capital and equilibrium selection in Stag Hunt games
Published in Journal of economic psychology (01-12-2013)“…•I show that commonly used measures of trust attitudes explain behavior in a Stag Hunt game.•This finding is driven both by preferences and beliefs about what…”
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Navigating Motivation: A Semantic and Subjective Atlas of 7 Motives
Published in Frontiers in psychology (27-01-2021)“…Research from psychology, neurobiology and behavioral economics indicates that a binary view of motivation, based on approach and avoidance, may be too…”
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Motives and comprehension in a public goods game with induced emotions
Published in Theory and decision (01-03-2019)“…This study analyses the sensitivity of public goods contributions through the lens of psychological motives. We report the results of a public goods experiment…”
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Bias and discrimination: what do we know?
Published in Oxford review of economic policy (2020)“…Abstract The paper presents the economic literature on gender bias, illustrating the underpinnings in the psychology of bias and stereotyping; the…”
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Overconfidence, Incentives and Digit Ratio
Published in Scientific reports (04-04-2016)“…This paper contributes to a better understanding of the biological underpinnings of overconfidence by analyzing performance predictions in the Cognitive…”
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Parental time investments and instantaneous well‐being in the United States
Published in Scottish journal of political economy (10-10-2024)“…Abstract This study investigates the relationship between maternal education, child‐care time, and well‐being in the United States, with a particular focus on…”
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Exploiting behavioural insights to foster global cooperation
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Implications of nudging for the well-being of consumers
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Essays on social capital and coordination
Published 01-01-2013“…My dissertation explores social capital and coordinated investment using experimental methods. Chapter 1 is motivated by the observed relationship between…”
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Nudging als politisches Instrument: Gute Absicht oder staatlicher Übergriff?
Published in Wirtschaftsdienst (Hamburg) (2014)“…Die Verhaltensökonomie und ihre praktischen Implikationen geraten immer stärker in den Fokus auch der deutschen Politik. Individuelle Entscheidungen sollen im…”
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Nudging as political tool: good intention or governmental encroachment?
Published in Wirtschaftsdienst (Hamburg) (01-01-2014)“…Die Verhaltensökonomie und ihre praktischen Implikationen geraten immer stärker in den Fokus auch der deutschen Politik. Individuelle Entscheidungen sollen im…”
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Essays on social capital and coordination
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Adjusting to the New Asia
Published in Foreign affairs (New York, N.Y.) (01-07-2003)“…Transpacific relations are now shifting as dramatically as transatlantic ones. As Japan slips in power and relevance, China grows ever stronger, and since…”
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