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How likely is a catastrophic event that would substantially reduce the capital stock, GDP and wealth? How much should society be willing to pay to reduce the probability or impact of a catastrophe? We answer these questions and provide a framework for policy analysis using a general equilibrium...
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.e., impulsivity and length of financial planning horizon, smokers are more impatient. However, neither of these measures is … measures of time preference and self-control, i.e., impulsivity and financial planning, are more closely related to the smoking …
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estimates show that planning behavior can explain the differences in savings and why some people arrive close to retirement with …
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the effect of a simple scalable planning intervention on a repeated behavior using a randomized design involving 877 … weeks. In contrast to recent studies, we find that the planning intervention did not have a positive effect on behavior and … planning is helpful and despite clear evidence that they engaged with the planning process …
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market. We propose a simple learning model where agents can invest in the acquisition of financial knowledge. Differential …
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to either learn from him (if children act as teachers then adults' cost of learning the skill falls) or lean on him (if … children's human capital substitutes for that of adults in household production then adults' benefit of learning the skill … also of adults living in the same household ("learning" outweighs "leaning"). Conversely, the 1998 introduction of English …
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Recent medical research shows that health is highly influential for learning and the ability to think laterally …; however, past economic studies have failed to empirically examine the influence of health on learning, schooling, and ideas …
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asset, his peers may also want to purchase it, both because they learn from his choice ("social learning") and because his …
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voting and social learning, we illustrate that sequential elections place too much weight on the preferences and information …
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learning between the first and the nth attempt while controlling for selection into retaking in terms of observed and … unobserved characteristics. We find large learning gains measured in terms of improvements in the exam scores, especially among …
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