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It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out …
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This paper argues that the consumption value of education is an important motivation for the educational choice. While controlling for ability, we document that individuals are willing to forego substantial future wage returns in order to acquire a particular type of higher education. We...
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We propose that outcome utility and process utility can be distinguished and empirically measured. People gain … procedural utility from participating in the political decision-making process itself, irrespective of the outcome. Nationals … enjoy both outcome and process utility, while foreigners are excluded from political decision-making and therefore cannot …
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Beliefs are a central determinant of behavior. Recent models assume that beliefs about or the anticipation of future consumption have direct utilityconsequences. This gives rise to informational preferences, i.e., preferences over the timing and structure of information. Using a novel and...
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important case of independence, it is shown that the self-employed derive more utility from their work than people employed by … an organization, irrespective of income gained or hours worked. This is evidence for procedural utility: people do not …
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This paper calculates, for the top twenty emitting countries, how much pricing of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is in their own national interests due to domestic co-benefits. On average, nationally efficient prices are substantial, $ 57.5 per ton of CO2 (for year 2010), reflecting primarily...
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consumers' actual utility, and the "counterfactual" utility they expect to obtain if they were able to set policy themselves … rational and/or informed, counterfactual utility becomes endogenous to current policy, and the welfare loss associated with …
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Emotions were central to the development of economics, especially in utility theory in classical economics. While … neoclassical utility theory basically abolished emotions, behavioural economics more recently reintroduced emotions in utility … theory. Beyond utility theory, economic theorists use emotions to explain behaviour which otherwise could not be understood …
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