Own experience bias in evaluating the efforts of others
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Bayesian updating; Discrimination; Attribution error; False consensus; Own experience bias;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
- D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
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