Does having insurance change individuals' self‐confidence?

Volume: 88, Issue: 2, Pages: 429 - 442
Published: Jun 1, 2021
Abstract
Recent research in contract theory on the effects of behavioral biases implicitly assumes that they are stable, in the sense of not being affected by the contracts themselves. In this paper, we provide evidence that this is not necessarily the case. We show that in an insurance context, being insured against losses that may be incurred in a real-effort task changes subjects' self-confidence. Our novel experimental design allows us to disentangle...
Paper Details
Title
Does having insurance change individuals' self‐confidence?
Published Date
Jun 1, 2021
Volume
88
Issue
2
Pages
429 - 442
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