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Does Everyone Use Probabilities? Intuitive and Rational Decisions About Stockholding
Binswanger, Johannes - 2013
by a novel and simple model based on the dual-systems framework from psychology (Kahneman, 2003). In our model … to a better understanding of the role of cognitive skills in decision making under uncertainty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085047
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The Influence of Hidden Researcher Decisions in Applied Microeconomics
Huntington-Klein, Nick - 2020
Researchers make hundreds of decisions about data collection, preparation, and analysis in their research. We use a many-analysts approach to measure the extent and impact of these decisions. Two published causal empirical results are replicated by seven replicators each. We find large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833890
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Influence of Freedom of Choice on Happiness
Koohborfardhaghighi, Somayeh; Summers, Christopher; … - 2022
The literature on happiness shows that there are many factors that influence a person s happiness. Extending previous studies, we investigate the role of the freedom of choice as a key contributing construct in influencing a person s happiness. We define two hypothetical sub-constructs for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030761
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Rational Inattention and Migration Decisions
Bertoli, Simone - 2020
Acquiring information about destinations can be costly for migrants. We model information frictions in the rational inattention framework and obtain a closed-form expression for a migration gravity equation that we bring to the data. The model predicts that ows from countries with a higher cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838467
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Rational Addiction and Time Consistency : An Empirical Test
Piccoli, Luca - 2020
This paper deals with one of the main empirical problems associated with the rational addiction theory, namely that its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843165
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Rational Students and Resit Exams
Kooreman, Peter - 2012
Resit exams – extra opportunities to do an exam in the same academic year – are widely prevalent in European higher education, but uncommon in the US. I present a simple theoretical model to compare rational student behavior in the case of only one exam opportunity versus the case of two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099740
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Motivated Belief Updating and Rationalization of Information
Drobner, Christoph; Goerg, Sebastian J. - 2022
We study belief updating about relative performance in an ego-relevant task. Manipulating the perceived ego-relevance of the task, we show that subjects update their beliefs optimistically because they derive direct utility flows from holding positive beliefs. This finding provides a behavioral...
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Testing Bounded Rationality Against Full Rationality in Job Changing Behavior
Contini, Bruno; Morini, Matteo - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316720
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Rational Inattention and Employer Learning
Habermalz, Steffen - 2010
learning model with the theory of rational inattention introduced by Sims (2006). In the model firms optimally allocate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135991
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Using Ethical Dilemmas to Predict Antisocial Choices with Real Payoff Consequences : An Experimental Study
Dickinson, David L. - 2018
antisocial behavior. Choices in both environments respond to incentives (i.e., the relative price of the ethical decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915721