Contributor Name: Nicky Nicholls

Nicky Nicholls has been a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Pretoria (UP) since 2017. She obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pretoria and She uses surveys and economic experiments to better understand how people make decisions in different contexts. Her research has considered, among other topics, race and gender bias; trust in social media; belief updating; and factors influencing the willingness to give.

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Possible Welfare Benefits of a Basic Income Support: Evidence from a benefit incidence ...
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Group identity in fairness decisions: discrimination or inequality aversion?
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The impact of statistical learning on violations of the sure-thing principle