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Choices which change life satisfaction : revising SWB theory to account for change
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
on life satisfaction. The results have negative implications for the still dominant theory of SWB, set-point theory. This … theory holds that adult SWB does not change in the medium or long term, although temporary fluctuations occur due to specific … life events. Set-point theory has come under increasing criticism in recent years, primarily due to unmistakable evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966917
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Survival of spinoffs and other startups : first evidence for the private sector in Germany, 1976 - 2008
Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus - 2013
find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786452
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Public funding and corporate innovation
Beck, Mathias; Junge, Martin; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2017
We review and condense the body of literature on the economic returns of public R&D on private R&D and find that: (i) private returns to R&D appear to be large and larger than the returns to alternative investments; (ii) private R&D and R&D subsidies are positively correlated and there is no...
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Individual-level loss aversion in riskless and risky choices
Gächter, Simon (contributor); Johnson, Eric J. (contributor) - 2007
Loss aversion can occur in riskless and risky choices. Yet, there is no evidence whether people who are loss averse in riskless choices are also loss averse in risky choices. We measure individual-level loss aversion in riskless choices in an endowment effect experiment by eliciting both WTA and...
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Evaluating alternative representations of the choice sets in models of labour supply
Aaberge, Rolf (contributor); Colombino, Ugo (contributor);  … - 2006
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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Incentives and the allocation of effort over time : the joint role of affective and cognitive decision making
Goette, Lorenz (contributor); Huffman, David (contributor) - 2006
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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Moody choice
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - 2010
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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Independent individual decision-makers in household models and the new home economics
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2010
individual models presented in his theory of marriage. Decision-making models assuming independent individual household members …Much of the recent literature in household economics has been critical of unitary models of household decision … discusses another alternative: independent individual models of decision-making that don't make any specific assumptions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008810537
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Economic consequences of mispredicting utility
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2013
In a simple conceptual framework, we organize a multitude of phenomena related to the (mis)prediction of utility. Consequences in terms of distorted choices and lower wellbeing emerge if people have to trade-off between alternatives that are characterized by attributes satisfying extrinsic...
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Bargaining over babies : theory, evidence, and policy implications
Doepke, Matthias; Kindermann, Fabian - 2016
It takes a woman and a man to make a baby. This fact suggests that for a birth to take place, the parents should first agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are likely to arrive only if both parents desire one, and...
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