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We investigate expectation formation in a controlled experimental en-vironment. Subjects are asked to predict the price in a standard asset pricingmodel. They do not have knowledge of the underlying market equilibrium equa-tions, but they know all past realized prices and their own predictions....
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not onlymutual trust, like simple exchange, but also a substantial degree of coordination. We examinewhether players are …
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In many real-life situations people face a simple decision whether to volunteer or not to provide some benefit for themselves and also for others. This research investigates the effects of the group size and the magnitude of the volunteering cost in a controlled large-scale laboratory...
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experiment, while coordination failures emerge in the following periods sweeping away the beneficial effect of communication at …
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Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health …
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Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is … and individual level longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey to estimate the net health impact of … to identify the treatment effect of urbanization on the self-assessed health of individuals. The results reveal important …
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Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …
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death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health …
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This paper tries to establish who carries the burden in supporting reproductive health and AIDS programs worldwide. The … assistance in matters of reproductive health and AIDS. This global effort has so far not sufficiently been supported by funds and …
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This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- andbetween-country inequality …. We rely on standardized height indicators as our health indicator sincethey avoid the measurement pitfalls of more … traditional measures of health such as morbidity,mortality and life expectancy. They also avoid measurement problems associated …
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