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"The better you feel, the harder you fall": health perception biases and mental health among Chinese adults during the COVID-19 pandemic

Nie, Peng; Wang, Lu; Dragone, Davide; Lu, Haiyang; … - 2021

of biased risk perceptions. To assess this role in the context of COVID-19, this study first implements survey …-based measures of over- and underconfidence in the health self-perceptions among Chinese adults during the pandemic. Then, it …

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The individual perception of wage inequality : a measurement framework and some empirical evidence

Kuhn, Andreas - 2015

This paper presents a simple conceptual framework specifically tailored to measure individual perceptions of wage … in inequality perceptions both across and within countries as well as survey-years. Focusing on the association between … aggregate-level inequality measures and individuals' subjective perception of wage inequality, it turns out that there is both a …

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The subversive nature of inequality : subjective inequality perceptions and attitudes to social inequality

Kuhn, Andreas - 2015

further corroborated using various complementary measures of individuals' perception of the chances and risks associated with … an unequal distribution of economic resources, such as their perception of the chances of upward mobility. I finally show … perceptions into the political-economic sphere. Taken together, these findings suggest that high levels of perceived wage …

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Perceptions and practices of replication by social and behavioral scientists : making replications a mandatory element of curricula would be useful

Fecher, Benedikt; Fräßdorf, Mathis; Wagner, Gert G. - 2016

alike. In this case study we analyze perceptions and practices regarding replication studies in the social and behavioral …

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Nudging in complex environments

Koch, Alexander K.; Monster, Dan; Nafziger, Julia - 2023

To study the effects of reminder nudges in complex environments, we apply a novel experimental approach based on a computer game in which decision makers have to pay attention to and perform multiple actions within a short period of time. The set-up allows us, first, to test the effect of...

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Cognitive misperception and chronic disease awareness : evidence from blood biomarker data

Lin, Zhuoer; Fu, Mingqi; Chen, Xi - 2023

Cognitive misperception contributed to poor decision-making; yet their impact on health-related decisions is less known. We examined how self-perceived memory was associated with chronic disease awareness among older Chinese adults. Data were obtained from the China Health and Retirement...

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The development and happiness of very young children

Anand, Paul; Roope, Laurence - 2016

The paper demonstrates how Sen's (1985) alternative approach to welfare economics can be used to shed light on the wellbeing of very young children. More specifically, we estimate versions of the three key relations from his framework using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)...

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Being poorer than the rest of the neighbourhood : relative deprivation and problem behaviour of youth

Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Ham, Maarten van; Yu, Rongqin; … - 2016

According to the neighbourhood effects hypothesis, there is a negative relation between neighbourhood wealth and youths' problem behaviour. It is often assumed that there are more problems in deprived neighbourhoods, but there are also reports of higher rates of behavioural problems in more...

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Waiting longer before claiming, and activating youth : no point?

Cockx, Bart; Van Belle, Eva - 2016

counselling and training in the Youth Work Plan (YWP) if a job is not found within three months. The length of the waiting period …

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Understanding teenage fertility, cohabitation, and marriage : the case of Peru

Favara, Marta; Lavado, Pablo; Sanchez, Alan - 2016

In this study, we used data from the Young Lives study, which investigates teenage childbearing, marriage, and cohabitation by tracking a cohort of individuals from the ages of 8 to 19 years. While the present analysis does not intend to establish causality, the longitudinal nature of the data...

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