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The Rapid Evolution of Homo Economicus : Brief Exposure to Neoclassical Assumptions Increases Self-Interested Behavior
Ifcher, John - 2016
considerations moves behavior toward traditional economic rationality in UG, PD, and DG. Despite entering the study with higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983904
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Suboptimal Choices and the Need for Experienced Individual Well-Being in Economic Analysis
Hsee, Christopher K. - 2012
social sciences thus frequently describe some patterns of decision as suboptimal. We review evidence of suboptimal choices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110203
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Are Income and Consumption Taxes Ever Really Equivalent? Evidence from a Real-Effort Experiment with Real Goods
Blumkin, Tomer - 2010
The public finance literature demonstrates the equivalence between consumption and labor-income (wage) taxes. We introduce an experimental paradigm in which individuals make real labor-leisure choices and spend their earned income on real goods. We use this paradigm to test whether a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138653
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Does Everyone Use Probabilities? Intuitive and Rational Decisions About Stockholding
Binswanger, Johannes - 2013
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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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
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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 … search for new options capable to attain "satisfactory" targets (aspirations levels, standards, norms), based on conditions …
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