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Intertemporal and Social Preferences predict cooperation in a Social Dilemma: An application in the context of COVID-19
van Hulsen, M.A.J.; Rohde, Kirsten I.M.; van Exel, N.J.A. - 2020
In this paper, we examine the role of intertemporal and social preferences in explaining cooperation in a social dilemma. In the Netherlands, the COVID-19 pandemic raised an acute social dilemma when the government opted for an “intelligent lockdown” to contain the spread of the virus, based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427147
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HIV/AIDS, Risk Aversion and Intertemporal Choice
Lammers, Judith; van Wijnbergen, Sweder - 2010
This study analyses the relation between perceived health status and intertemporal choice. We use data from experiments with real monetary rewards conducted among students in South Africa to estimate risk and time preferences. These experimental data, based on multiple price lists developed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220473
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Effectiveness of Large Scale Water and Sanitation Interventions: the One Million Initiative in Mozambique
Elbers, Chris; Godfrey, Samuel; Gunning, Jan Willem; … - 2012
The One Million Initiative aims to give one million people in rural Mozambique access to clean drinking water and adequate sanitation by constructing new water points and providing sanitation training. We use panel survey data for 1600 households to analyze the health impact of the Initiative....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326228
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Effectiveness of Large Scale Water and Sanitation Interventions : The One Million Initiative in Mozambique
Elbers, Chris; Godfrey, Samuel; Gunning, Jan Willem; … - 2012
The One Million Initiative aims to give one million people in rural Mozambique access to clean drinking water and adequate sanitation by constructing new water points and providing sanitation training. We use panel survey data for 1600 households to analyze the health impact of the Initiative....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167744
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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle
Galama, Titus J.; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010
Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325639
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Why the Rich drink more but smoke less: The Impact of Wealth on Health Behaviors
van Kippersluis, Hans; Galama, Titus J. - 2013
Wealthier individuals engage in healthier behavior. This paper seeks to explain this phenomenon by developing a theory of health behavior, and exploiting both lottery winnings and inheritances to test the theory. We distinguish between the direct monetary cost and the indirect health cost (value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326446
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Interactions Between Financial Incentives and Health in the Early Retirement Decision
Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Galama, Titus J.; van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2017
health events, proxied by unanticipated hospitalizations, to information on retirement decisions and actual incentives from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662542
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Skipping your workout, again? Measuring and understanding time inconsistency in physical activity
Ceallaigh, Diarmaid Ó; Rohde, Kirsten I. M.; Van … - 2024
Anecdotally, physical activity appears to be a textbook example of time inconsistency, which is the failure to follow through on ex-ante preferences and plans. Interestingly, our longitudinal survey finds that, over a fortnight, exercising more than preferred/planned is actually more prevalent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014547800
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Mental Health Literacy, Beliefs and Demand for Mental Health Support among University Students
Acampora, Michelle; Capozza, Francesco; Moghani, Vahid - 2022
university students. We run a field experiment with 2,978 university students from one of the largest Dutch universities. The … literacy intervention provides information on the benefits of care-seeking and its potential returns in terms of academic … information increases (decreases) the demand for information about coaching (psychological) services. We document that this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321754
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Stronger together: Group incentives and the demand for prevention
Lagarde, Mylène; Riumallo Herl, Carlos - 2023
incentives with group conditionality. In a field experiment in El Salvador, we compare those to equivalent individual incentives … information asymmetry and address behavioral barriers that limit prevention take-up. Incentives leveraging social interactions may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321783