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Taking Behavioralism Seriously: Some Evidence of Market Manipulation

Kysar, Douglas A.; Hanson, Jon - 1999

An important lesson of behavioralist research is that individuals' perceptions and preferences are highly manipulable. This article presents empirical evidence of market manipulation, a previously unrecognized source of market failure. It surveys extensive qualitative and quantitative marketing...

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Hazardous Agrochemicals, Smoking, and Farmers’ Differences in Wage-Risk Tradeoffs

Nastis, Stefanos A.; Michailidis, Anastasios - 2010

This paper utilizes the theory of compensating differentials for job risks from the laboreconomics literature to evaluate farmers’ differences in wage-risk tradeoffs. In thecontext of job risks, the theory predicts that farmers who place a lower value on healthstatus are willing to work for...

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Changes in Food, Alcohol and Cigarettes Consumption during Transition: Evidence from Russia

Herzfeld, Thomas; Huffman, Sonya Kostova; Oskam, Arie J.; … - 2009

This paper examines the changes in nutritional behavior of Russian adults over the ten-year transition period, between 1994 and 2004. We present evidence on the impact of individual as well as regional characteristics on changes in fat, protein, alcohol and cigarette consumption, and on...

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Essays on Health Economics

Wang, Yang - 2009

their smoking choices. I find that US elderly tend to over-emphasize the importance of their genetic makeup but … underestimate the influence of their health-related choices, such as smoking, on their longevity. This finding can partially explain … effects of their genes and health-related choices on their longevity, then the average smoking rate for the age group analyzed …

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