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Sports and Child Development
Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Steinmayr, Andreas - CESifo - 2011
Despite the relevance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for professional success, their formation is not yet fully understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra-curricular activities, on children’s skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367395
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Waiting to Choose
Imas, Alex - 2016
We study the role of heuristic versus deliberative processing in intertemporal choice. Using studies in the Democratic Republic of Congo and an online labor market, we show that waiting periods –designed to prompt deliberation by temporally separating news about choice sets from choices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978068
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The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior : Experimental Evidence from Children's Intertemporal Choices
Sutter, Matthias - 2015
According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013093
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Dynamic Incentives and Markov Perfection : Putting the 'Conditional' in Conditional Cooperation
Vespa, Emanuel - 2015
This paper experimentally examines the selection of equilibria in dynamic games. Our baseline treatment is a two-state extension of an indefinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma, which we modify in series of treatments to study the focality of efficiency and symmetry, the effect dynamic and static...
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Measuring Time and Risk Preferences : Reliability, Stability, Domain Specificity
Woelbert, Eva - 2013
To accurately predict behavior economists need reliable measures of individual time preferences and attitudes toward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078528
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Time Preferences, Study Effort, and Academic Performance
Non, Arjan; Tempelaar, Dirk T. - 2021
We analyze the relation between time preferences, study effort, and academic performance among first-year business and … economics students. Time preferences are measured by stated preferences for an immediate payment over larger delayed payments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315523
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Interpreting Time Horizon Effects in Inter-Temporal Choice
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - CESifo - 2012
We compare different designs that have been used to test for an impact of time horizon on discounting, using real incentives and two representative data sets. With the most commonly used type of design we replicate the typical finding of declining (hyperbolic) discounting, but with other designs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651859
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Interpreting Time Horizon Effects in Inter-Temporal Choice
Dohmen, Thomas J. - 2012
We compare different designs that have been used to test for an impact of time horizon on discounting, using real incentives and two representative data sets. With the most commonly used type of design we replicate the typical finding of declining (hyperbolic) discounting, but with other designs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109751
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The Effects of International Financial Integration in a Model with Heterogeneous Firms and Credit Frictions
Clemens, Christiane - 2013
This paper examines the consequences of international financial integration in a two-sector heterogeneous-agent dynamic general equilibrium model of occupational choice with financial constraints and idiosyncratic risks. We discuss the macroeconomic and distributional effects of financial market...
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Evaluating Intergenerational Persistence of Economic Preferences : A Large Scale Experiment with Families in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, Shyamal - 2018
Economic preferences – like time, risk and social preferences – have been shown to be very influential for real … that has examined how and when economic preferences are formed, putting particular emphasis on the role of … intergenerational transmission of economic preferences within families. Our paper is the first to run incentivized experiments with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920869