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Economic Preferences and Obesity: Evidence from a Clinical Lab-in-Field Experiment
Pastore, Chiara; Schurer, Stefanie; Tymula, Agnieszka; … - 2020
averse, show no evidence of present bias, and have impatience levels comparable to healthy samples described in the … international literature. Variations in present bias and impatience are not significantly associated with variations in markers of … circumference. Impatience moderates the link between risk tolerance and obesity. We replicate the key finding of interaction effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497816
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Does Patience Matter for Marriage Stability? Some Evidence from Italy
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
impatience of one standard deviation increases the probability of experiencing divorce by almost one percentage point. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103272
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Procrastination, Academic Success and the Effectiveness of a Remedial Program
De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Procrastination produces harmful effects for human capital investments and studying activities. Using data from a large sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual behaviour of students, considering the delay in finalizing their university enrolment procedure. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884189
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Does Patience Matter for Marriage Stability? Some Evidence from Italy
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca - 2013
impatience of one standard deviation increases the probability of experiencing divorce by almost one percentage point. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328886
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Procrastination, Academic Success and the Effectiveness of a Remedial Program
De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2014
Procrastination produces harmful effects for human capital investments and studying activities. Using data from a large sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual behaviour of students, considering the delay in finalizing their university enrolment procedure. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352320
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Behavioral Economics and the Value of a Statistical Life
Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2019
There are many possible connections between VSL and behavioral economics. A list of topics includes endowment effects, risk salience, ambiguity aversion, present bias, reference groups, reference points, and experienced versus decision utilities. There are also nudges that connect to estimating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005981
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Subjective Well-Being and Public Policy
Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2017
Measures of subjective well-being have gained substantial attention in economics as quantitative approximations of individual welfare. They allow researchers to study relevant determinants of welfare on an individual as well as on a societal level. These determinants might not to be easily...
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Information and Competition Entry
Ewers, Mara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279246
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Information and competition entry
Ewers, Mara - 2012
This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282257
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Can Subjective Mortality Expectations and Stated Preferences Explain Varying Consumption and Saving Behaviors among the Elderly?
Salm, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This study investigates how subjective mortality expectations and heterogeneity in time and risk preferences affect the consumption and saving behavior of the elderly. Previous studies find that the large wealth disparities observed among the elderly cannot be explained by differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822956