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The Subjective Costs of Health Losses Due to Chronic Diseases : An Alternative Model Appraisal
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; van Praag, B.M.S - 2023
This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in … health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general … satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260944
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The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation
Frey, Bruno S. - 2014
In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070689
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'Might Not Be a Tomorrow' : A Multi-Methods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Crime
Brezina, Timothy; Tekin, Erdal; Topalli, Volkan - 2021
A number of researchers point to the anticipation of early death, or a sense of "futurelessness," as a contributing factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have little reason to delay gratification for the promise of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324784
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Impatience and Uncertainty : Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior
Sutter, Matthias - 2011
impatience are found to be significant predictors of health related field behavior and saving decisions. In particular, more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131926
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Risk Attitudes and Migration
Akgüc, Mehtap - 2015
To contribute to a scarce literature, in particular for developing and emerging economies, we study the nature of measured risk attitudes and their consequences for migration. We also investigate whether substantial changes in the risk environment influences risk tolerance. Using the 2009 RUMiC...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014733
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Risk Attitudes and Household Migration Decisions
Dustmann, Christian - 2017
This paper analyses the relation between individual migrations and the risk attitudes of other household members when migration is a household decision. We develop a simple model that implies that which member migrates depends on the distribution of risk attitudes among all household members,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960287
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Do Measures of Risk Attitude in the Laboratory Predict Behavior Under Risk in and Outside of the Laboratory?
Charness, Gary - 2019
laboratory risky financial decisions, and (ii) behavior in naturally-occurring field behavior under risk (financial, health and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868010
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Asset Integration, Risk Taking and Loss Aversion in the Laboratory
Morrison, William G. - 2019
We report on a laboratory experiment testing for the presence of loss aversion, as separate from risk aversion, utilizing an asset integration protocol designed to ensure that a loss of cash provided by the experimenter is viewed as a real loss by experimental participants. Our experimental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870215
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Economic Behavior Under Alcohol Influence : An Experiment on Time, Risk, and Social Preferences
Corazzini, Luca - 2014
We report results from an incentivized laboratory experiment to provide controlled evidence on the causal effects of alcohol consumption on risk preferences, time perception and altruism. Our design allows disentangling the pharmacological effects of alcohol intoxication from those mediated by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053534
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Donations, Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences : A Study on Altruism in Primary School Children
Angerer, Silvia - 2014
We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057045