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In many poor countries with high emigration rates elderly people are left behind without care when their children migrate. Without a functioning market in private care migrants face a difficult trade-off between working their way out of poverty and providing informal care once their parents...
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This paper evaluates the effect of AIDS-related mortality on per-capita incomes of surviving household members, using a large nationally representative sample of rural households from Zambia. To minimize selection bias that may arise because AIDS is likely to be the endogenous outcome of...
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Education and health sectors are known to have massive impact on the quality of human life. In this context, the health … sector is discussed in this study to analyse the impact of fiscal decentralisation on basic health infrastructure in Pakistan …. Provincial datasets (1980-2001) from three provinces were used for the analysis of provincial health indicators. It was learnt …
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We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS epidemics, which figures prominently among the Millennium Development Goals. We employ a difference-in-difference-in-differences approach to identify the treatment effect of ODA...
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-dependent utility or cumulative prospect theory) …
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This paper analyzes insurance demand under prospect theory in a simple model with two states of the world and fair … insurance contracts. We argue that two different reference points are reasonable in this framework, state-dependent initial … wealth or final wealth after buying full insurance. Applying the value function of Tversky and Kahneman (1992), we find that …
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and the potential increments over it are evaluated by subjective expected utility with a risky utility function u. In … contrast to earlier approaches with models that aimed at separating riskless and risky utility, CT does not violate basic … irregularities like the expected utility paradoxes of Allais and Rabin, CT also separates risk attitude in the strong sense from …
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discounted expected utility (DEU) as well as prospect theory and other models relying on probability weighting. In this note I …
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This paper compares two prominent empirical measures of individual risk attitudes — the Holt and Laury (2002) lottery-choice task and the multi-item questionnaire advocated by Dohmen, Falk, Huffman, Schupp, Sunde and Wagner (2011) — with respect to (a) their within-subject stability over...
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Most experiments on decision theory ask individual subjects to make more than one decision. The isolation hypothesis is commonly used to justify the choice of the random lottery incentive mechanism as the preferred payoff protocol. This research note reports on the main findings on the...
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