Economics, psychology, and neuroscience are converging today into a single, unified discipline
with the ultimate aim of providing a single, general theory of human behavior. This is the …

Educational attainment is strongly influenced by social and other environmental factors, but
genetic factors are estimated to account for at least 20% of the variation across individuals 1. …

Economists usually assume that monetary incentives improve performance, and psychologists
claim that the opposite may happen. We present and discuss a set of experiments …

Even though the provision of equal opportunities for men and women has been a priority in
many countries, large gender differences prevail in competitive high-ranking positions. …

We characterize, in the Anscombe–Aumann framework, the preferences for which there are
a utility functionu on outcomes and an ambiguity indexc on the set of probabilities on the …

… Modica and Rustichini show that the requirement of symmetry (together with some other
assumptions) eliminates unforeseen contingencies in a possibility-correspondence model …

Economic analysis has so far said little about how an individual's cognitive skills (CS) are
related to the individual's economic preferences in different choice domains, such as risk …

Neuroeconomics is an interdisciplinary field, crossing boundaries between Economics,
Psychology, and Neuroscience. Its original program was to provide a test for a large number of …

People who are members of a group and identify with it behave differently from people who
perceive themselves as isolated individuals. This paper shows that group membership …

Despite the predictions of the neoclassical theory of economic growth, we observe that poor
countries have invested at lower rates and have not grown faster than rich countries. To …