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Aguiar, Victor H.; Hjertstrand, Per; Serrano, Roberto - 2019

new informative bounds for the consumer's true preferences. …

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Information, Switching Costs, and Consumer Choice: Evidence from Two Randomized Field Experiments in Swedish Primary Health Care

Anell, Anders; Dietrichson, Jens; Ellegård, Lina Maria; … - 2018

Consumer choice of services that are financed by a third party may improve the matching of consumers and providers, and spur competition over quality dimensions relevant to consumers. However, in markets characterized by information frictions and switching costs, the gains from choice may fail...

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The two faces of independence: Betweenness and homotheticity

Burghart, Daniel R.; Epper, Thomas; Fehr, Ernst - 2014

neglected class of preferences that violate independence but satisfy homotheticity, indicating that betweenness is violated … empirically relevant class of preferences. …

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Does schooling improve cognitive functioning at older ages?

Schneeweis, Nicole; Skirbekk, Vegard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2012

of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we assess the causal effect of education on old-age memory, uency …, numeracy, orientation and dementia. We find a positive impact of schooling on memory. One year of education increases the … delayed memory score by about 0.3, which amounts to 16% of the standard deviation. Furthermore, for women, we find that more …

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Economic conditions at the time of birth and cognitive abilities late in life: Evidence from eleven European countries

Doblhammer, Gabriele; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Fritze, … - 2011

With ageing populations and a stronger reliance on individual financial decision-making concerning asset portfolios, retirement schemes, pensions and insurances, it becomes increasingly important to understand the determinants of cognitive ability among the elderly. To study effects of the...

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Selection into Experiments: Evidence from a Population of Students

Schulz, Jonathan; Sunde, Uwe; Thiemann, Petra; Thöni, … - 2019

measures for risk, time, social preferences, confidence, and cognitive skills using standard measures from the experimental … along risk preferences, time preferences, and overconfidence. Although the recruitment conditions affect participation rates …

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Do religious beliefs explain preferences for income redistribution? Experimental evidence

Neustadt, Ilja - 2010

of research into preferences for income redistribution. We elicit preferences for income redistribution through a …

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A pharmaceutical innovation: Is it worth the money? Whose money?

Sennhauser, Michèle; Zweifel, Peter - 2009

benefit list of social health insurance. A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted in Germany to measure preferences …

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GPs' preferences: What price fee-for-service?

Zweifel, Peter; Rischatsch, Maurus; Brändle, Angelika - 2009

In mixed health care systems a crucial condition for the success of Managed Care (MC) plans is to win over a su±cient number of general practitioners (GPs) acting as gatekeepers. This contribution reports on GPs' willingness-to-accept (WTA) or compensation asked, respectively, for changing from...

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Subjektive Daten in der empirischen Wirtschaftsforschung: Probleme und Perspektiven

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2002

Preise, Einkommen, und Nachfrage - die zentralen zu erklaerenden Variablen in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften sind objektiv messbar. Daneben gibt es jedoch zwei nicht minder zentrale Groessen, Erwartungen und Praeferenzen, die sich einer direkten objektiven Messung entziehen. Es sind subjektive...

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