Managing Self-Confidence: Theory and Experimental Evidence

The authors are grateful to the Department Editor and Associate Editor, as well as to Nageeb Ali, Roland Benabou, Gary Chamberlain, Rachel Croson, Gordon Dahl, David Eil, Glenn Ellison, Asen Ivanov, John List, Justin Rao, Al Roth, Andrei Shleifer, Joel Sobel, Lise Vesterlund, Roberto Weber, and participants at numerous seminars for their feedback. Aislinn Bohren and Hanzhe Zhang provided outstanding research assistance. Jenő Pál provided very helpful comments on the final draft. M. Niederle and T. S. Rosenblat are grateful for the hospitality of the Institute for Advanced Study, where part of this paper was written.