Confidence in knowledge or confidence in the ability to learn: an experiment on the causal effects of beliefs on motivation

DOI10.1016/J.GEB.2018.02.005zbMath1416.91071OpenAlexW2793562636WikidataQ130098641 ScholiaQ130098641MaRDI QIDQ1792566

Mira Fischer, Dirk Sliwka

Publication date: 12 October 2018

Published in: Games and Economic Behavior (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/177131

zbMATH Keywords

confidencehuman capital investmentmotivationeconomic experiments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Rationality and learning in game theory (91A26) Experimental studies (91A90)

Uses Software

• Z-Tree

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