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This paper investigates the impact of peer observation on consumption decisions of rural households in Thailand using a … evidence for conformity. Further, we find that individual's consumption choice is influenced by the group choice controlling … unfamiliarity of the consumption good is counteracted by peer effects. We further show that the consumption choice is influenced by …
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This paper investigates the impact of peer observation on the consumption decisions of rural households in Thailand … deviation in their decisions. Thus, we find evidence for conformity. Further, we find that individual's consumption choice is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435024
. Overconfident participants scale back their consumption after income feedback. However, they remain in higher debt at the end of the …
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back their consumption after feedback. However, at the end of the experiment they remain with higher debt levels, which …
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We investigate the impact of peer observation on consumption decisions using a lab-in-field experiment. Respondents … make consumption decisions either alone or under peer observation. We find evidence for peer effects. We are able to study … find evidence for an information channel. Further, we show that the consumption choice is influenced by how many people …
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that people with low self-control have more problems with the repayment of consumption debt, but this relationship is, in …
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This paper examines the effect of reduced self-control on impulsive borrowing in a laboratory experiment. We manipulate self-control using an ego depletion task and show that it is effective. Following the ego depletion task, participants can anonymously buy hot drinks on credit. We find no...
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This paper investigates the impact of peer observation on the consumption decisions of rural households in Thailand … deviation in their decisions. Thus, we find evidence for conformity. Further, we find that individual's consumption choice is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392209
This paper investigates the impact of peer observation on the consumption decisions of rural households in Thailand … deviation in their decisions. Thus, we find evidence for conformity. Further, we find that individual's consumption choice is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434386
that people with low self-control have more problems with the repayment of consumption debt, but this relationship is, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500130