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Rationalizable suicides : evidence from changes in inmates' expected length of sentence

Campaniello, Nadia; Diasakos, Theodoros; Mastrobuoni, … - 2014

Is there a rational component in the decision to commit suicide? Economists have been trying to shed light on this question by studying whether suicide rates are related to contemporaneous conditions. This paper goes one step further: we test whether suicides are linked to forward-looking...

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Testing bounded rationality against full rationality in job changing behavior

Contini, Bruno (contributor); Morini, Matteo (contributor) - 2007

In this paper we question the hypothesis of full rationality in the context of job changing behaviour, via simple … forces of job change are future real wages and expected job quality. Bounded rationality suggests that individuals will … and between cells. Under full rationality the following are to be expected: high inter-cell mobility, large dispersion …

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Rationality as a barrier to peace : micro-evidence from Kosovo

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar (contributor); Gang, Ira N. (contributor) - 2007

Despite a significant expansion of the literature on conflicts and fragility of states, only a few systematic attempts have been made to link the theoretical literature on social conflicts to the available micro-level information about the people who are involved in these conflicts. We address...

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Rational choice and voter turnout : evidence from union representation elections

Farber, Henry S. - 2010

The standard theoretical solution to the observation of substantial turnout in large elections is that individuals receive utility from the act of voting. However, this leaves open the question of whether or not there is a significant margin on which individuals consider the effect of their vote...

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Equality, equity and incentives : an experiment

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin; Putterman, Louis G.; … - 2010

We devise a new experimental game by nesting a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a 2x2 design, subjects eithervote on or exogenously...

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Suboptimal choices and the need for experienced individual well-being in economic analysis

Hsee, Christopher K.; Rottenstreich, Yuval; Stutzer, Alois - 2012

Standard economic analysis assumes that people make choices that maximize their utility. Yet both popular discourse and other fields assume that people sometimes fail to make optimal choices and thus adversely affect their own happiness. Most social sciences thus frequently describe some...

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Are nurses more altruistic than real estate brokers?

Jacobsen, Karin; Eika, Kari H.; Helland, Leif; Lind, Jo … - 2011

We report results from a dictator game experiment with nurse students and real estate broker students as dictators, and Amnesty International as the recipient. Although brokers contributed substantial amounts, nurses contributed significantly more, on average 76 percent of their endowment. In a...

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Chicken or checkin'? : rational learning in repeated chess games

Gerdes, Christer; Gränsmark, Patrik; Rosholm, Michael - 2011

We examine rational learning among expert chess players and how they update their beliefs in repeated games with the same opponent. We present a model that explains how equilibrium play is affected when players change their choice of strategy when receiving additional information from each...

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Rational students and resit exams

Kooreman, Peter - 2012

average total student effort. -- frequency of examinations ; education production function ; rationality …

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Criminal victims, victimized criminals, or both? : a deeper look at the victim-offender overlap

Entorf, Horst - 2013

economics, as well as bounded and ecological rationality are discussed. The paper presents new econometric evidence based on …

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