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Decisions and performance under bounded rationality : a computational benchmarking approach
Zēgners, Dainis; Sunde, Uwe; Strittmatter, Anthony - 2020
This paper presents a novel approach to analyze human decision-making that involves comparing the behavior of professional chess players relative to a computational benchmark of cognitively bounded rationality. This benchmark is constructed using algorithms of modern chess engines and allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499843
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Biased probability judgment : evidence of incidence and relationship to economic outcomes from a representative sample
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Marklein, Felix - 2009
Many economic decisions involve a substantial amount of uncertainty, and therefore crucially depend on how individuals process probabilistic information. In this paper, we investigate the capability for probability judgment in a representative sample of the German population. Our results show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003845575
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Potential, prizes and performance : testing tournament theory with professional tennis data
Sunde, Uwe (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001838248
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Life expectancy and economic growth : the role of the demographic transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2009
the role of the econometric specification. We present a simple theory of the economic and demographic transition where … individuals' education and fertility decisions depend on their life expectancy. The theory predicts that before the demographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003837588
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The economics of human development and social mobility
Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014
This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252655
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The nature and predictive power of preferences : global evidence
Falk, Armin; Becker, Anke; Dohmen, Thomas; Enke, Benjamin; … - 2015
for 80,000 individuals, drawn as representative samples from 76 countries around the world, representing 90 percent of … both the world's population and global income. The global distribution of preferences exhibits substantial variation across … systematically with age, gender, and cognitive ability. Around the world, our preference measures are predictive of a wide range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387557
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Aging, proximity to death, and religiousness
Lechler, Marie; Sunde, Uwe - 2020
Considerable evidence has documented that the elderly are more religious and that religiousness is associated with better health and lower mortality. Yet, little is known about the reverse role of life expectancy or proximity to death, as opposed to age, for religiousness. This paper provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237556
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Global evidence on economic preferences
Becker, Anke; Dohmen, Thomas; Enke, Benjamin; Falk, Armin; … - 2018
This paper studies the global variation in economic preferences. For this purpose, we present the Global Preference Survey (GPS), an experimentally validated survey dataset of time preference, risk preference, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust from 80,000 individuals in 76...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011899246
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Can education compensate the effect of population aging on macroeconomic performance? : evidence from panel data
Kotschy, Rainer; Sunde, Uwe - 2018
This paper investigates the consequences of population aging and of changes in the education composition of the population for macroeconomic performance. Estimation results from a theoretically founded empirical framework show that aging as well as the education composition of the population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011930455
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Skill policies for Scotland
Heckman, James J. (contributor);  … - 2004
This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002540578