Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Customers increase consumption in response to more frequent information (monthly billing)

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Information provision and consumer behavior: A natural experiment in billing frequency. By Casey Wichman Journal of Public Economics, August...

Bag "Leakage": The Effect of Disposable Carryout Bag Regulations on Unregulated Bags

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Bag "Leakage": The Effect of Disposable Carryout Bag Regulations on Unregulated Bags. By Rebecca Taylor University of California W...

Improving the Electability of Atheists in the United States: A Preliminary Examination

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Improving the Electability of Atheists in the United States: A Preliminary Examination. By Andrew Franks Politics and Religion, https://www....

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Deception and Reception: The Behavior of Information Providers and Users. By Roman Sheremeta & Timothy Shields Journal of Economic Behav...

Investors react more favorably to disclosures containing self-inclusive language

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Managers' Self-Inclusive Language in Conference Calls: Multi-Method Evidence. By Zhenhua Chen & Serena Loftus Tulane University Work...

Political climate, optimism, and investment decision

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Political climate, optimism, and investment decisions. By Yosef Bonaparte, Alok Kumar & Jeremy Page Journal of Financial Markets, http:/...

Would you choose to be happy? Tradeoffs between happiness and the other dimensions of life

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Would you choose to be happy? Tradeoffs between happiness and the other dimensions of life in a large population survey. By Matthew Adler, P...

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Implicit Self and the Right Hemisphere: Increasing Implicit Self-Esteem and Implicit Positive Affect by Left Hand Contractions. By Markus Qu...

Cultural Patterns of Suicide in the United States: The Role of Honor Culture

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New Insights on Cultural Patterns of Suicide in the United States: The Role of Honor Culture. By Marisa Crowder & Markus Kemmelmeier Cro...

Variation in the Serotonin Transporter Polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) and Inertia of Negative and Positive Emotions

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Variation in the Serotonin Transporter Polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) and Inertia of Negative and Positive Emotions in Daily Life. By Eeske van Roe...

Dying Is Unexpectedly Positive

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Dying Is Unexpectedly Positive. By Amelia Goranson et al. Psychological Science, http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679761770118...

Child Gender Influences Paternal Behavior, Language, and Brain Function

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Child Gender Influences Paternal Behavior, Language, and Brain Function. By Jennifer Mascaro et al. Behavioral Neuroscience, June 2017, Page...
Monday, June 12, 2017

Less than a third of the 65 Chinese highway & rail projects examined were “genuinely economically productive.”

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China’s New Bridges: Rising High, but Buried in Debt. By Chris Buckley TNYT, Jun 10 2017 China has built hundreds of dazzling new bridges,...

Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient institutions in response to changing economic conditions?

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The Ideological Roots of Institutional Change, by Murat Iyigun & Jared Rubin University of Colorado Working Paper, April 2017 https...
Friday, June 9, 2017

Physical Safety Promotes Socially (but Not Economically) Progressive Attitudes among Conservatives

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Napier, J. L., Huang, J., Vonasch, A. J., and Bargh, J. A. (2017) Superheroes for Change: Physical Safety Promotes Socially (but Not Economi...

Patients’ crying experiences in psychotherapy: Relationship with the patient level of personality organization, clinician approach, and therapeutic alliance

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Patients’ crying experiences in psychotherapy: Relationship with the patient level of personality organization, clinician approach, and ther...

Why Elites Love Authentic Lowbrow Culture: Overcoming High-Status Denigration with Outsider Art

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Why Elites Love Authentic Lowbrow Culture: Overcoming High-Status Denigration with Outsider Art. By Oliver Hahl, Ezra W. Zuckerman, Minjae K...

Are the ethnically tolerant free of discrimination, prejudice and political intolerance? They aren't.

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Bizumic, B., Kenny, A., Iyer, R., Tanuwira, J., and Huxley, E. (2017) Are the ethnically tolerant free of discrimination, prejudice and poli...

The self and autobiographical memories of immoral actions

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I’m not the person I used to be: The self and autobiographical memories of immoral actions. By Stanley, Matthew L.; Henne, Paul; Iyengar, Vi...
Thursday, June 8, 2017

How much information to sample before making a decision? It's a matter of psychological distance

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How much information to sample before making a decision? It's a matter of psychological distance. By Vered Halamish & Nira Liberman ...

The Benefits of Forced Experimentation: Striking Evidence from the London Underground Network

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The Benefits of Forced Experimentation: Striking Evidence from the London Underground Network. By Ferdinand Rauch, Shaun Larcom, Tim Willems...

Need for uniqueness motivates conspiracy beliefs

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Imhoff, R., and Lamberty, P. K. (2017) Too special to be duped: Need for uniqueness motivates conspiracy beliefs. Eur. J. Soc. Psychol., doi...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Perceived social presence reduces fact-checking

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Perceived social presence reduces fact-checking. By Youjung Jun, Rachel Meng, and Gita Venkataramani Johar Proceedings of the National Acade...

Call My Rep! How Unions Overcame the Free-Rider Problem

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Murphy, Richard John: Call My Rep! How Unions Overcame the Free-Rider Problem (March 01, 2017). CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6362. Availa...

Increase in own state's minimum wage increases frequency with which low-wage workers commute out of the state

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Cross-state differences in the minimum wage and out-of-state commuting by low-wage workers. By Terra McKinnish Regional Science and Urban Ec...
Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Rethinking the Benefits of Youth Employment Programs: The Heterogeneous Effects of Summer Jobs

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Rethinking the Benefits of Youth Employment Programs: The Heterogeneous Effects of Summer Jobs Jonathan Davis & Sara Heller NBER Working...
Monday, June 5, 2017

Increase in deployment & combat injuries for white and Hispanic soldiers relative to black ones & for soldiers from high-income neighborhoods relative to those from low-income ones

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Who Will Fight? The All-Volunteer Army after 9/11. By Susan Payne Carter, Alexander Smith & Carl Wojtaszek American Economic Review, Ma...

Will the high-tech cities of the future be utterly lonely?

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Will the high-tech cities of the future be utterly lonely? By Jessica Brown The Week, April 24, 2017 http://theweek.com/articles/689527/hi...

Healthy offspring from freeze-dried mouse spermatozoa held on the International Space Station for 9 months

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Healthy offspring from freeze-dried mouse spermatozoa held on the International Space Station for 9 months. Sayaka Wakayama et al. Proceedin...
Sunday, June 4, 2017

Distress disclosure, depression, life satisfaction, and cultural differences

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Distress disclosure and psychological functioning among Taiwanese nationals and European Americans: The moderating roles of mindfulness an...

Unintended Consequences: The Regressive Effects of Increased Access to Courts

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Unintended Consequences: The Regressive Effects of Increased Access to Courts. By Anthony  Niblett & Albert  Yoon, University of Toront...

From Existential to Social Understandings of Risk - Examining Gender Differences in Nonreligion

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From Existential to Social Understandings of Risk - Examining Gender Differences in Nonreligion. By Penny Edgell, Jacqui Frost, Evan Stewa...

When Children Rule: Parenting in Modern Families

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When Children Rule: Parenting in Modern Families. By Sebastian Galiani, Matthew Staiger, Gustavo Torrens NBER Working Paper No. 23087 http:/...

Pregnancy leads to long-lasting changes in human brain structure

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Pregnancy leads to long-lasting changes in human brain structure. By Elseline Hoekzema et al. Nature Neuroscience http://www.nature.com/neur...

A Virtual Out-of-Body Experience Reduces Fear of Death

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A Virtual Out-of-Body Experience Reduces Fear of Death. By Pierre Bourdin et al. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Propaganda can be effective at changing the behavior of all citizens even if most do not believe it

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Propaganda and credulity, by Andrew T. Little. In Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 102 , March 2017, Pages 224–232 http://www.scienc...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Political Persecutions and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China

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Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China. Melanie Meng Xue, Mark  Koyama November 30, 2016. GMU Working Paper in Ec...

Insurance policy specifically for self-inflicted liver damage

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China’s Zhongan sees scope for offbeat insurance. https://www.ft.com/content/bee51a52-accd-11e6-9cb3-bb8207902122 Financial Times Med...

Upward Mobility and Discrimination: The Case of Asian Americans

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Upward Mobility and Discrimination: The Case of Asian Americans. By Nathaniel Hilger NBER Working Paper No. 22748 October 2016 NBER ...

Sabotage occurs more often when Green Party candidates fail to win even minor offices

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The political roots of domestic environmental sabotage Benjamin Farrer & Graig Klein Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, ...

Children of low-income parents are much less likely to become inventors than their higher-income counterparts

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The Lifecycle of Inventors, by Alex Bell et al. Harvard Working Paper, June 2016 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/p apers.cfm?abstract_id=283801...

Relationship between spicy food and aggressive cognition

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You are what you eat: An empirical investigation of the relationship between spicy food and aggressive cognition. By Rishtee K. Batra, Tanu...

Review of Vijay Joshi's India’s Long Road: The Search for Prosperity

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India’s long road to prosperity, by Martin Wolf Martin Wolf is impressed by an analysis of what the world’s largest democracy must do in ord...

Determinants of financial outcomes and choices: the role of noncognitive abilities

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Understanding the determinants of financial outcomes and choices: the role of noncognitive abilities, Gianpaolo Parise and Kim Peijnenburg ...

Our social evaluation of other people is influenced by their faces and their voices. How?

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Audiovisual Integration in Social Evaluation. By Mila Mileva et al. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, in...

Independent of concealment frequency, frequency of mind-wandering to own secrets predicts lower well-being

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J Pers Soc Psychol. 2017 May 8. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000085. [Epub ahead of print] The Experience of Secrecy. Slepian ML , Chun JS , Maso...

Patients treated by older physicians die more than patients cared for by younger ones, except those docs treating high volumes of patients

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BMJ. 2017 May 16;357:j1797. doi: 10.1136/bmj.j1797. Physician age and outcomes in elderly patients in hospital in the US: observational ...

Ethnic and linguistic fractionalization contributes to poverty levels

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Ethnic Diversity and Poverty. By Sefa Awawory Churchill, Russell Smyth https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worl ddev.2017.02.032 World Development ...

The Effect of Income on Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from the 2008 Economic Stimulus Tax Rebates

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The Effect of Income on Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from the 2008 Economic Stimulus Tax Rebates. By Marta Lachowska. In Journal of Huma...

On the Size of the Gender Difference in Competitiveness

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On the Size of the Gender Difference in Competitiveness. By Silvia Saccardo, Aniela Pietrasz, Uri Gneezy. In Management Science, http://dx....

Perceived warmth and competence of others shape voluntary deceptive behaviour

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Perceived warmth and competence of others shape voluntary deceptive behaviour in a morally relevant setting. Br J Psychol. 2017 Mar 9. doi:...

Do Globalization and Free Markets Drive Obesity among Children and Youth? An Empirical Analysis, 1990–2013

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Do Globalization and Free Markets Drive Obesity among Children and Youth? An Empirical Analysis, 1990–2013 ...

Small association between socioeconomic status and adult fast-food consumption in US

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The association between socioeconomic status and adult fast-food consumption in the U.S. By Jay L. Zagorsky , Patricia K. Smith. Economics ...

Protestant Ethic and Entrepreneurship: Religious Minorities in the Holy Roman Empire

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The Protestant Ethic and Entrepreneurship:  Evidence from Religious Minorities in the Former Holy Roman Empire.  By Luca Nunziata, Lorenzo ...