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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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Homo reciprocans : survey evidence on prevalence, behavior and success
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006
Experimental evidence has convincingly shown the existence of reciprocal inclinations, i.e., a tendency for people to respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) the prevalence of reciprocity in the population, (ii) individual determinants of reciprocity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003348535
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Psychological momentum and gender
Cohen-Zada, Danny; Krumer, Alex; Shtudiner, Ze'ev - 2016
We exploit a natural experiment in which two professionals compete in a one-stage contest without strategic motives and where one contestant has a clear exogenous psychological momentum advantage over the other in order to estimate the causal effect of psychological momentum on performance. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455776
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The city as a self-help book : the psychology of urban promises
Cardoso, Rodrigo V.; Meijers, Evert J.; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2017
cities. We dwell into concepts of bounded rationality to describe the cognitive biases and heuristics affecting decision …. We thereby offer an understanding of urbanisation and migration processes departing from economic rationality assumptions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641466
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003540035
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011596
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530682
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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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