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Economic preferences and obesity: evidence from a clinical lab-in-field experiment

Pastore, Chiara; Schurer, Stefanie; Tymula, Agnieszka; … - 2020

averse, show no evidence of present bias, and have impatience levels comparable to healthy samples described in the … international literature. Variations in present bias and impatience are not significantly associated with variations in markers of … circumference. Impatience moderates the link between risk tolerance and obesity. We replicate the key finding of interaction effects …

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Procrastination, academic success and the effectiveness of a remedial program

De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2014

Procrastination produces harmful effects for human capital investments and studying activities. Using data from a large sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual behaviour of students, considering the delay in finalizing their university enrolment procedure. We...

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Does patience matter for marriage stability? : some evidence from Italy

De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca - 2013

impatience of one standard deviation increases the probability of experiencing divorce by almost one percentage point. Our …

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Behavioral economics and the value of a statistical life

Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2019

There are many possible connections between VSL and behavioral economics. A list of topics includes endowment effects, risk salience, ambiguity aversion, present bias, reference groups, reference points, and experienced versus decision utilities. There are also nudges that connect to estimating...

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Subjective well-being and public policy

Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2017

Measures of subjective well-being have gained substantial attention in economics as quantitative approximations of individual welfare. They allow researchers to study relevant determinants of welfare on an individual as well as on a societal level. These determinants might not to be easily...

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Information and competition entry

Ewers, Mara - 2012

This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject...

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Goals and psychological accounting

Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2011

We model how people formulate and evaluate goals to overcome self-control problems. People often attempt to regulate their behavior by evaluating goal-related outcomes separately (in narrow psychological accounts) rather than jointly (in a broad account). To explain this evidence, our theory of...

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Risk and saving in two-person households : more scope for precautionary saving

Apps, Patricia; Andrienko, Yuri; Rees, Ray - 2012

The existing literature suggests that when the saving decision of two-earner households under risk is analysed, standard results on the existence of precautionary saving no longer apply: precautionary saving is obtained if and only if very stringent conditions hold. This paper shows that when...

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Parental separation and the formation of economic preferences

Dahmann, Sarah Christina; Kettlewell, Nathan; Lam, Jack - 2022

We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large household survey dataset, which allows us to match respondents to their siblings and parents. Our results indicate that adolescents from separated families are less trusting but have...

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Reference points and the tradeoff between risk and incentives

Dohmen, Thomas; Non, Jan Adrianus; Stolp, Tom - 2021

We conduct laboratory experiments to investigate basic predictions of principal-agent theory about the choice of piece rate contracts in the presence of output risk, and provide novel insights that reference dependent preferences affect the tradeoff between risk and incentives. Subjects in our...

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