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dramatic consequences. To test whether the overconfidence bias affects the decision of backcountry skiers to go on a ski trip …
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decisions. In this challenge, they confront two questions: what decision theory to follow and how to implement it in AI systems …. This paper provides answers to these questions and makes three contributions. The first is to discuss how economic decision … consideration of procedural rationality, overcoming computational difficulties, and understanding decision-making in disequilibrium …
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capacity nor the power to influence the household decision process. The literature on collective models has so far incorporated …); Blundell et al. (2005)]. This paper seeks to determine whether children of a certain age are decision-makers. We focus on the … decision-making process within households composed of two adults and one child of at least 16 years of age. We first summarize …
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During the last two decades, the discrete-choice modelling of labour supply decisions has become increasingly popular, starting with Aaberge et al. (1995) and van Soest (1995). Within the literature adopting this approach there are however two potentially important issues that are worthwhile...
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"We conduct experiments in which participants made multiple intertemporal decisions throughout a seven week period. In addition to exploring dynamic consistency and the stability of single period discount rates, our experiments introduce a manipulation to identify the role of positive and...
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Marriage data show a strong degree of positive assortative mating along a variety of attributes. But since marriage is an equilibrium outcome, it is unclear whether positive sorting is the result of preferences rather than opportunities. We assess the relative importance of preferences and...
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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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. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that teams play the Nash … only 40% for individuals. -- Strategic sophistication ; beliefs ; experiment ; team decision making ; individual decision …
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If choices depend on the decision maker's mood, is the attempt to derive any consistency in choice doomed? In this …
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Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We …
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