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Add-on pricing, naive consumers, and the hidden welfare costs of education
Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - 2011
Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive consumers on equilibrium prices and welfare. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516903
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Price and saliency in health care: when can targeted nudges change behaviors?
Walker, Brigham - 2020
This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment to examine the relationship between the price and saliency of health services. A large employer e-mailed individually-targeted health education encouraging high-value care to high-risk employees. Weeks before the program launched, a company...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314696
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Effect of perceptions and behaviour on access to and use of financial service : evidence from South Africa
Annim, Samuel Kobina; Arun, Thankom; Kostov, Philip - 2012
This study investigates the effect of financial perception and behaviour on; (a) general accounts and services, (b … three estimations support the hypothesis that financial perception has a greater effect on the decision to access and use … behaviour is greater than financial perception when making decisions on the take-up and use of investment financial services. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675520
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Job loss fears and (extremist) party identification : first evidence from panel data
Geishecker, Ingo; Siedler, Thomas - 2012
There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665560
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Up or out : research incentives and career prospects of postdocs in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Schulze, Ute - 2012
Academic careers in Germany have been under debate for a while. We conduct a survey among postdocs in Germany, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534097
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Inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences in East and West Germany
Kuhn, Andreas - 2011
East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures … or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009233915
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A different look at Lenin's legacy : trust, risk, fairness and cooperativeness in the two Germanies
Heineck, Guido; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2010
question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009012393
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Work hours constraints and health
Bell, David N. F.; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2011
Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …-perceived health. -- work time ; hours constraints ; health ; Germany ; United Kingdom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521260
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Happiness, domains of life satisfaction, perceptions, and valuation differences across genders
Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani; Farrington, Stephen - 2021
Happiness is strongly associated with goal attainment, productivity, mental health and suicidal risk. This paper examines the effect of satisfaction with areas of life on subjective well-being (SWB), the importance of relative perceptions compared to absolute measures in predicting overall life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012508051
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Gini who? : the relationship between inequality perceptions and life satisfaction
Marchesi, Daniele; Nikolova, Milena; Angelini, Viola - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014511536