“...•We review existing literature in order to understand how approaches from behavioral economics may help us understand investments into education.•Observed...”

“...Goals are an important motivator. But little is known about why and how people set them. We address this issue in a model based on two stylized facts. First,...”

“...We ask how the incentives of an agent are affected by an information management system that lets the agent receive information about the performance of a...”

“...Behavioral economics struggles to explain why people sometimes evaluate outcomes separately (narrow bracketing of mental accounts) and sometimes jointly (broad...”

“...This experiment elicits beliefs about other people’s overconfidence and abilities. We find that most people believe that others are unbiased, and only few...”

“...•In a lab experiment with real effort, we investigate how the temptation of the internet and a manager's decision whether to restrict workers’ access to it...”