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manipulation to identify the role of positive and negative mood/affect in intertemporal choice. Our results demonstrate that, while … yields increased impulsiveness while inducing positive affect in women or affect (positive or negative) in men yields little …
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We use natural experiments - plausibly exogenous, anticipated increases in the piece rate - to study how effort responds to incentives. Our first finding, like some previous studies, lends little support to the view that incentives increase effort: raising the piece rate has zero effect on total...
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This chapter argues that the neglect of emotion in economic models explains their inability to predict important aspects of the labor market. We focus on one example: firms frequently cut real wages, increasing nominal wages by less than the inflation rate, but they very seldom cut nominal...
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, affect can distort effort decisions relative to a fully cognitive benchmark, in a way that is consistent with evidence on …
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dozens of countries, and for a large range of well-being measures, including happiness and mental health, well-being is high …
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choice and innovation. Second, however, efficiency gains have often been limited. This is due to a number of inter …, crosssubsidisation of particular groups of people is often mandated on providers, reducing costcompetition and diversity of choice. (c …
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Choice and competition in education have found growing support from both policy makers and academics in the recent past … for choice and competition is clear, in existing work there is rarely an attempt to distinguish between the two concepts … academic outcomes than those whose choice is more limited; and whether Primary schools facing more competition perform better …
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We propose an extension of Tversky's lexicographic semiorder to a model of boundedly rational choice. We explore the … connection with sequential rationalisability of choice, and we provide axiomatic characterisations of both models in terms of … observable choice data. …
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This paper evaluates general achievement effects of choice and competition between private and public schools at the …
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This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for …
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