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Non-formal schools play an increasingly important role in the delivery of educational services in poor communities, but little systematic evidence is available about their placement choices. We study location choice of "one teacher, one classroom" non-formal primary schools pioneered by BRAC...
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Positive and negative feelings were central to the development of economics, especially in utility theory in classical economics. While neoclassical utility theory ignored feelings, behavioral economics more recently reintroduced feelings in utility theory. Beyond feelings, economic theorists...
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decision making in complex decision tasks relative to conscious thought. Different from prior work testing this prediction, we … processing in complex decision making. …
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have to be made. The decision-making process can be vulnerable to environmental stressors. Summarizing the growing economic … and epidemiologic evidence linking air pollution, cognition performance and real-world decision making, we first …, and educational attainment. We further extend to a review of real-world decision making that has been found to be affected …
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Climate change has stimulated growing interest in the influence of temperature on cognition, mood and decision making …
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incentivized decision task involves Bayesian assessments where participants may use existing (base rate) as well as new information … diet improved decision making relative to those who reported following No Diet. Our data fail to support these hypotheses …. In fact, we found some evidence that adherence to a No Sugar Diet predicted a reduced decision accuracy and was connected …
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We use a simple, three-item test for cognitive abilities to investigate whether established behavioral biases that play a prominent role in behavioral economics and finance are related to cognitive abilities. We find that higher test scores on the Cognitive Reflection Test of Frederick (2005)...
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capacity nor the power to influence the household decision process. The literature on collective models has so far incorporated …); Blundell et al. (2005)]. This paper seeks to determine whether children of a certain age are decision-makers. We focus on the … decision-making process within households composed of two adults and one child of at least 16 years of age. We first summarize …
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We model the consequences of parental control over choice of wives for sons, for parental incentives to educate daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic but paternalistic parents benefit from having married sons live with them. By choosing uneducated...
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Economic analysis has said little about how an individual's cognitive skills (CS's) are related to the individual's preferences in different choice domains, such as risk-taking or saving, and how preferences in different domains are related to each other. Using a sample of 1,000 trainee truckers...
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