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Time limits: The effects on welfare use and other consumption-smoothing mechanisms

Mazzolari, Francesca; Ragusa, Giuseppe - 2012

We use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation covering the period 1989-2006 to investigate the impact that time limits on receipt of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families have on female-headed family outcomes, including welfare use, employment and living arrangements. The...

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Can we measure individual risk attitudes in a survey?

Ding, Xiaohao; Hartog, Joop; Sun, Yuze - 2010

We combine a survey and an experiment with real pay-out among Peking University students to measure and validate individual risk attitudes. The experiment involves choosing between a cash payment and playing a lottery. The survey questions ask for the reservation price of a hypothetical lottery...

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Incentive effects on risk attitude in small probability prospects

Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Villeval, … - 2009

Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental investigations. This may however raise an issue of sequentiality of effects as later choices may be influenced by earlier ones. This paper reports instead between-subject results on the...

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Narrow bracketing and dominated choices

Rabin, Matthew; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2007

An experiment by Tversky and Kahneman (1981) illustrates that people's tendency to evaluate risky decisions separately can lead them to choose combinations of choices that are first-order stochastically dominated by other available combinations. We investigate the generality of this effect both...

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Using behavioral economic experiments at a large motor carrier: the context and design of the truckers and turnover project

Burks, Stephen V. - 2007

The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...

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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 - 2008

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 future...

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Risk taking behavior in tournaments: evidence from the NBA

Grund, Christian; Höcker, Jan; Zimmermann, Stefan - 2010

We empirically explore the relevance of risk taking behavior in tournaments. We make use of data from the NBA season 2007/2008 and measure risk taking by the fraction of three-point shots. Current heterogeneity of teams is taken into account by intermediate results. It turns out that indeed...

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Gender and the influence of peer alcohol consumption on adolescent sexual activity

Waddell, Glen R. - 2010

I consider the alcohol consumption of opposite-gender peers as explanatory to adolescent sexual intercourse and demonstrate that female sexual activity is higher where there is higher alcohol consumption among male peers. This relationship is robust to school fixed effects, cannot be explained...

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Risk attitude and wage growth: replication and reconstruction

Budría, Santiago; Diaz-Serrano, Luis; … - 2009

We replicate Shaw (1996) who found that individual wage growth is higher for individuals with greater preference for risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed support for the earlier results. We present and estimate a...

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An Afriat theorem for the collective model of household consumption

Cherchye, Laurens; De Rock, Bram; Vermeulen, Frederic - 2008

We provide a nonparametric 'revealed preference' characterization of rational household behavior in terms of the … nature of consumption externalities (positive or negative) in the intra-household allocation process is non-testable. The …, monotonicity is testable for the model that assumes all household consumption is public. …

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