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Beyond Non-Satiation: Needs and Requirements
Pettini, Anna - CESifo - 2014
and a potentially pathological sign. The distinction between needs and requirements provides a new and solid ground on …The hypothesis of non-satiation of rational choice theory is very seldom posed under scrutiny, maybe because it is … looks at how it recently shifted into a modification of the original concept of adaptation. Using theoretical research in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011097939
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Beyond Non-Satiation : Needs and Requirements
Pettini, Anna - 2015
and a potentially pathological sign. The distinction between needs and requirements provides a new and solid ground on …The hypothesis of non-satiation of rational choice theory is very seldom posed under scrutiny, maybe because it is … looks at how it recently shifted into a modification of the original concept of adaptation. Using theoretical research in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030496
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Animal Welfare and Human Ethics : A Personality Study
Albrecht, Konstanze - 2017
We revisit the long-standing question whether there is a relation between animal welfare and human ethics. Therefore, we elicit concern for animal welfare in an incentivized, direct, and real setup: Subjects choose between intensive farming versus organic living conditions for a hen....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948247
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Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions : A Choice Experiment
Elias, Julio - 2016
conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979667
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Do Choices Affect Preferences? Some Doubts and New Evidence
Holden, Steinar - CESifo - 2009
Recent research is exploring the case for choice-induced changes in preferences using the free-choice paradigm of Brehm … (1956). Participants are faced with a choice between items that they have given the same rating of liking, two items at a … time, and it is found that an item not chosen in one choice has a lower tendency of being chosen in a subsequent choice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583740
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Smoking and Social Interaction
Poutvaara, Panu; Siemers, Lars H.R - 2021
We study the social interaction of non-smokers and smokers as a sequential game, incorporating insights from social psychology and experimental economics into an economic model. Social norms affect human behavior such that non-smokers do not ask smokers to stop smoking and stay with them, even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317156
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Price Effects on Compound Commodities
Minagawa, Junichi - 2016
We explore effects of simultaneous price changes for the demand of a group of goods, which we refer to as a compound commodity. Specifically, we consider unit and proportional cost components (e. g., taxes, transportation costs, etc.) imposed on the compound commodity. We find that there is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981296
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Smoking and Social Interaction
Poutvaara, Panu; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - CESifo - 2007
We study the social interaction of non-smokers and smokers as a sequential game, incorporating insights from social psychology and experimental economics into an economic model. Social norms affect human behavior such that non-smokers do not ask smokers to stop smoking and stay with them, even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765665
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Income or Leisure? On the Hidden Benefits of (Un-)Employment
Chadi, Adrian - 2017
We study the usually assumed trade-off between income and leisure in labor supply decisions using comprehensive German panel data. We compare non-employed individuals after plant closures with employed people regarding both income and time use as well as their subjective perceptions of these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950287
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132796