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This article explores the main determinants of the hazard of recidivism among ex-prisoners. We use a nationally-representative sample of prisoners released in 1996-1997 in France, drawn from a 5-year follow-up survey run by the French correctional administration. We estimate semiparametric...
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environment and the impact of time. We choose a qualitative approach over two cycles of action research. Cycle one, performed via …
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choice to respondents between two scenarios : one in which they would contribute their time and another in which they would … contribute their money. Results show that people prefer to contribute in time rather than in money. A great majority of people …
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The question of choice, in Hume's works, lies within the more general framework of the theory of passions. These lead towards desire, aversion and volition, and require reason, as a cognitive faculty, in order to build the set of objects on which our preferences are defined, and to determine its...
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According to a minimalist version of Afriat's theorem, a consumer behaves as a utility maximizer if and only if a feasibility matrix associated with his choices is cyclically consistent. An essential experiment consists of observed consumption bundles (x_1,..., x_n) and a feasibility matrix...
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According to a minimalist version of Afriat's theorem, a consumer behaves as a utility maximizer if and only if a feasibility matrix associated with his choices is cyclically consistent. An essential experiment consists of observed consumption bundles (x_1,..., x_n) and a feasibility matrix...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010569154
the uncertainty of subjects regarding others' rationality. We do so by comparing the price forecasts submitted by subjects … hypothesis that uncertainty about others' rationality plays a major role in causing substantial deviation of forecast prices from …
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The purpose of this paper is twofold. We first point out that violation of rationality axioms (SARP, GARP, WARP) do not …
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I establish, in simple deterministic overlapping generations economies, that if each agent holds rationally formed expectations in the sense that any other expectations justifying his choices imply a smaller likelihood for the history he observes with limited memory, then there are rationally...
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This paper focuses on the link between the economic conceptions of rationality and learning. Traditionally, most … is not the process of learning, but the result of learning: ‘a fully rational agent'. Heterodox rationality conceptions … such as the Simonian model of bounded rationality seem more compatible with the idea of learning. Bounded rationality …
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