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Experimentos de elección: una metodología para hacer valoración económica de bienes de no mercado
Monsalve, Nora Elena Espinal; Zapata, Jonathan Daniel Gómez - UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA SEDE MEDELLIN - 2011
La valoración de los bienes de no mercado se constituye en un nuevo campo de estudio en el análisis económico, consolidado en el ámbito de los recursos naturales y por ahora con muy pocas aplicaciones entre los elementos del patrimonio cultural. En este trabajo se presentan los métodos de...
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Felicidad y salud: Una aproximación to well-being in the Rio de la Plata
Gerstenbluth, Mariana; Rossi, Máximo; Triunfo, Patricia - In: Estudios de Economía 35 (2008) 1, pp. 65-78
We analyze data on happiness for Argentina and Uruguay. The focus is put on self-reported health status as a key aspect … in increasing happiness levels. Then, the probabilty of being happy is estimated by probit models. Results show that the … main relationship is between happiness and health status. Whether this is a causal effect or a correlation, is not clear …
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Happiness and health
Gerstenbluth, Mariana; Rossi, Máximo; Triunfo, Patricia - In: Estudios de economía 35 (2008) 1, pp. 65-78
We analyze data on happiness for Argentina and Uruguay. The focus is put on self-reported health status as a key aspect … in increasing happiness levels. Then, the probabilty of being happy is estimated by probit models. Results show that the … main relationship is between happiness and health status. Whether this is a causal effect or a correlation, is not clear …
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Hurwicz y el juez de última instancia
González, Jorge Iván - In: Revista de Economía Institucional 10 (2008) July-December, pp. 115-129
When receiving the Nobel Prize, Hurwicz took up the question “who is watching the guards?” and considered two approaches. One pessimistic, inspired by Juvenal, which leads to an infinite sequence of guards, and one idealistic, derived from the Platonic dialogues. The guard cannot get drunk,...
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Intuición, sesgos y heurísticas en la teoría de la elección
Santiago, Juan; Cante, Freddy - In: REVISTA CUADERNOS DE ECONOMÍA (2009)
El Programa de investigación Heurísticas y Sesgos" liderado por el economista Amos Tversky (fallecido en 1996) y por el sicólogo ganador del premio Nobel Daniel Kahneman, ha ofrecido desde 1971 una alternativa al Modelo de la Utilidad Esperada en el campo de la toma de decisiones. Las...
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La influencia de las redes sociales en el comportamiento de los agentes de mercado (The Influence of Social Networks on Market Agents' Behavior)
Cajiao Raigosa, Santiago; Zuniga, Camilo - 2015
Spanish Abstract: Las redes sociales son sistemas de relaciones interpersonales en los que las personas intercambian emociones, sentimientos, actitudes, gustos, opiniones, etc. En esa dinámica, la información que fluye a través de las interconexiones entre los sujetos tiende a ser replicada,...
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Las comparaciones interpersonales y la evaluación de estados sociales alternativos
Casas, Andrés Fernando; Cortés, Darwin F.; Gamboa, … - In: Revista de Economía Institucional 5 (2003) January-June, pp. 147-160
This document outlines the basic concepts of economic theory that are used to evaluate alternative social states, based on the formulation of a social welfare function that either permits or denies interpersonal comparisons of utility. Specially, it shows different approaches of old and new...
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Satisfacción con la vida, fe religiosa y asistencia al templo en Uruguay
Ferre, Zuleika; Gerstenblüth, Mariana; Rossi, Máximo - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2010
In this study, using data from the Religion, Health and Youth Emancipation survey, 2008 (DECON-FCS, Uruguay, ISSP), we estimate the probability of being happy with special emphasis on its relationship with religion and religiosity. We find that those who profess the Protestant faith are less...
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Salud y felicidad en Uruguay
Gerstenblüth, Mariana; Jewell, Todd; Rossi, Máximo - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2010
In this paper we study the relationship between individual happiness and self reported health status, using the … highest correlation with happiness. In order to control for the observed heterogeneity of this variable, we estimate using …
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Ingreso y desigualdad: ¿Cómo afectan a la felicidad en América Latina?
Gerstenblüth, Mariana; Melgar, Natalia; Rossi, Máximo - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2010
the levels of happiness reported by people. The main contribution of this paper is the examination of not only the direct … effect of economic performance on happiness, but also the indirect macroeconomic effects through the subjective income scale … poverty, income per capita and the human development index have only a significant direct impact on individual happiness …
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