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Time Preferences and Criminal Behavior
Åkerlund, David; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Grönqvist, Hans; … - 2014
. Yet, economic theory predicts that the scope for punishment as acting as a deterrent depends on how much individuals …
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Ashes to ashes, time to time: Parental time discounting and its role in the intergenerational transmission of smoking
Hübler, Philipp; Kucher, Andreas - 2016
-economic characteristics and also meaningful measures of individual discounting behavior, namely, general patience and impulsivity. This … aims at analyzing parental time discounting and its role in the intergenerational transmission of smoking. The analysis is … preference for both, mothers and fathers. That is, an increasing level of patience of parents is associated with a lower smoking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011616038
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The impact of education on the subjective discount rate in Ugandan villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268981
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Trading Off Generations: Infinitely-Lived Agent Versus OLG
Schneider, Maik T.; Traeger, Christian; Winkler, Ralph - 2010
The prevailing literature discusses intergenerational trade-offs predominantly in infinitely-lived agent models despite the finite lifetime of individuals. We discuss these trade-offs in a continuous time OLG framework and relate the results to the infinitely-lived agent setting. We identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753192
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Decision Processes of a Suicide Bomber – Integrating Economics and Psychology
Pittel, Karen; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2009
psychological concepts of cognitive dissonance and terror management theory into our economic analysis, we demonstrate why … – although predicted by standard economic theory – defection is a phenomenon rarely observed. We finally present some policy …
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Anticipations and endogenous present bias
Galperti, Simone; Strulovici, Bruno - 2015
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Which measures of time preference best predict outcomes? Evidence from a large-scale field experiment
Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Goette, Lorenz; … - 2011
present bias and exponential discounting predicts best, especially when both parameters are used. …
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Great expectations: The determinants of female university enrolment in Europe
Casarico, Alessandra; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara - 2011
We empirically investigate the determinants of the female decision of investing in post-secondary education, focusing on the role played by the context where young women take their education decision. We first develop a stylized two-period model to analyze the female decision of investing in...
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Foundations for Intertemporal Choice
al-Nowaihi, Ali; Dhami, Sanjit - 2018
function exhibits declining, constant or increasing impatience. The third function, the generating function, links the speedup …
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Heterogeneous class size effects: new evidence from a panel of university students
Bandiera, Oriana; Larcinese, Valentino; Rasul, Imran - 2009
Over the last decade, many countries have experienced dramatic increases in university enrolment, which, when not matched by compensating increases in other inputs, have resulted in larger class sizes. Using administrative records from a leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects...
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