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Homo Moralis : Personal Characteristics, Institutions, and Moral Decision-Making
Deckers, Thomas - 2016
institutions compared to situations of individual decision-making. Intelligence, female gender, and the existence of siblings …
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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...
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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...
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The College Type : Personality and Educational Inequality
Lundberg, Shelly J. - 2013
I examine the effects of cognitive ability and personality traits on college graduation in a recent cohort of young Americans, and how the returns to these traits vary by family background, and find very substantial differences across family background groups in the personality traits that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083746
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Personality Traits and Household Consumption Choices
Mangiavacchi, Lucia - 2018
In this paper, we test whether consumption choices are affected by personality traits and whether this impact is different for singles and individuals living in couples. To fulfill this aim, we test the impact of personality on preferences for different commodities using the German...
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Self-Control and Unhealthy Body Weight : The Role of Impulsivity and Restraint
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Dahmann, Sarah C.; Kamhöfer, Daniel - 2022
We examine the relationship between trait self-control and body weight. Data from a population representative household survey reveal that limited self-control is strongly associated with both objective and subjective measures of unhealthy body weight. Those with limited self-control are...
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Lost in Translation? Teacher Training and Outcomes in High School Economics Classes
Valletta, Robert G. - 2012
Using data on 24 teachers and 982 students from a 2006 survey of California high school economics classes, we assess …-effects estimation. Students' own and peer GPAs and their attitudes towards economics have the largest effects on value-added scores. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108907
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Managerial Incentives and Favoritism in Promotion Decisions : Theory and Field Evidence
Berger, Johannes - 2011
This paper investigates the effects of managerial incentives on favoritism in promotion decisions. First, we theoretically show that favoritism leads to a lower quality of promotion decisions and in turn lower efforts. But the effect can be mitigated by pay-for-performance incentives for...
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Moody Choice
Manzini, Paola - 2011
If choices depend on the decision maker's mood, is the attempt to derive any consistency in choice doomed? In this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133371
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Independent Individual Decision-Makers in Household Models and the New Home Economics
Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2010
Much of the recent literature in household economics has been critical of unitary models of household decision … discusses another alternative: independent individual models of decision-making that don't make any specific assumptions of … jointness of decision-making in households. Unitary models are typically associated with Gary Becker even though most of Becker …
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