Using controlled experiments, we examine how individuals make choices when faced with multiple options. Choice tasks are designed to mimic the selection of health insurance, prescription drug, or retirement savings plans. In our experiment, available options can be objectively ranked allowing us...

Lifespan psychological research has long been interested in the contextual embeddedness of individual development. To examine if and how regional factors relate to between-person disparities in the progression of late-life well-being, we applied three-level growth curve models to 24-year...

Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His argument is based on the assumption that the woman's utility is higher if her husband is alive. Using self-reported satisfaction measures from a long-running German panel...

Die wirtschaftliche Lage in der Russischen Föderation läßt keine Anzeichen auf eine Wende zum Besseren erkennen. Die monatlichen Inflationsraten haben sich seit November 1993 etwas abgeschwächt. Die Auswirkungen der wirtschaftspolitischen Kontur- und Kraftlosigkeit lassen sich an der...