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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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Can Anyone Be 'the' One? Evidence on Mate Selection from Speed Dating
Belot, Michèle - 2011
Marriage data show a strong degree of positive assortative mating along a variety of attributes. But since marriage is an equilibrium outcome, it is unclear whether positive sorting is the result of preferences rather than opportunities. We assess the relative importance of preferences and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756954
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Testing Canonical Tournament Theory : On the Impact of Risk, Social Preferences and Utility Structure
Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2012
We use experiments to test comparative statics predictions of canonical tournament theory. Both the roles of principal and agent are populated by human subjects, allowing us to test predictions for both incentive responses and optimal tournament design. Consistent with theory, we observed an...
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How Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Tournaments Affect Gender Differences in Competitive Behavior
Balafoutas, Loukas - 2019
studied in a controlled lab experiment. We present a novel experiment where subjects can compete against each other, but the …
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Order Effects in Eliciting Preferences
Kopsacheilis, Orestis; Goerg, Sebastian J. - 2023
about risk, time-discounting and altruism in variations of two conditions: 'Quantitative First' and 'Qualitative First'. We … patience and altruism while using quantitative items first increases the cross-method correlation for risk and time preferences …
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Financial Literacy, Experimental Preference Measures and Field Behavior a Randomized Educational Intervention
Sutter, Matthias; Weyland, Michael; Untertrifaller, Anna; … - 2023
-school students affects their behavior in risk and time preference tasks. Compared to two different control treatments, we find that … teaching financial literacy makes subjects behave more patiently, more time-consistent, and more risk-averse. These effects … persist for up to almost 5 years after our intervention. Behavior in the risk and time preference tasks is related to …
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Guilt from Promise-Breaking and Trust in Markets for Expert Services : Theory and Experiment
Beck, Adrian - 2010
broken, and guilt is exacerbated by higher interaction prices. An experiment qualitatively confirms our predictions: (1) most …
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Risk Preferences are Not Time Preferences : Comment
Cheung, Stephen L. - 2012
risk. I investigate the robustness of their result to the experimental design. I find that the effect disappears completely …
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On the Economics and Biology of Trust
Fehr, Ernst - 2008
just a special case of risk-taking, but based on important forms of social preferences such as betrayal aversion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768177
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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 …
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