Overconfidence and Gun Preferences: How Behavioral Biases Affect Your Safety
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Keywords
Overconfidence; Gun attitudes; Gun behavior; Crime; behavioral biases;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
- K40 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - General
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2023-10-30 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-POL-2023-10-30 (Positive Political Economics)
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