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*** Earn More Tomorrow: Overconfidence, Income Expectations and Consumer Indebtedness
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*** Date: Jan 2024
*** By: Antonia Grohmann, Lukas Menkhoff, Christoph Merkle and Renke Schmacker
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The code in this replication package produces the tables and figures shown in the paper. All analyses are done using Stata 18.

*** Data availability

The experimental dataset is included in the folder "data."

The GSOEP data (used for Table 1 and Appendix A) can be obtained after signing a user agreement with the data provider: https://www.diw.de/en/diw_01.c.601584.en/data_access.html

The data from the other studies summarized in Appendix D can be obtained from the journal websites or the respective authors.


*** Code

The do-file "do_file_paper" produces all tables and figures in the paper except for Tables 1, A.1, A.2, Figures A.1, A.2, Tables D.1 and D.2.

The do-file "replication_SOEP" produces Tables 1, A.1, A.2 and Figures A.1, A.2.

The do-file "appendix_D_other_data" produces Tables D.1 and D.2.