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Patient autonomy and education in specific medical knowledge
Lukas, Daniel - 2010
and self-care as imperfect substitutes. It is assumed that specific knowledge increases the self-diagnosis competence …
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Behavioural response to a sudden health risk: Dengue and educational outcomes in Colombia
Barron, Kai; Gamboa, Luis F.; Rodriguez-Lesmes, Paul - 2017
Epidemics tend to have a debilitating influence on the lives of directly afflicted families. However, the presence of an epidemic can also change the behaviour and outcomes of those not directly affected. This paper makes use of a short, sharp, unexpected epidemic to examine the behavioural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011658360
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Behavioural Response to a Sudden Health Risk: Dengue and Educational Outcomes in Colombia
Barron, Kai; Gamboa, Luis F.; Rodríguez-Lesmes, Paul - In: The Journal of Development Studies 55 (2019) 4, pp. 620-644
Epidemics tend to have a debilitating influence on the lives of directly afflicted families. However, the presence of an epidemic can also change the behaviour and outcomes of those not directly affected. This paper makes use of a short, sharp, unexpected epidemic to examine the behavioural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012201804
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Economic analysis of knowledge: The history of thought and the central themes
Leppälä, Samuli - 2012
Following the development of knowledge economies, there has been a rapid expansion of economic analysis of knowledge …, both in the context of technological knowledge in particular and the decision theory in general. This paper surveys this … of knowledge related questions in terms of applicability and alternative approaches has led to the fragmentation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592194
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Mums Go Online: Is the Internet Changing the Demand for Healthcare?
Amaral-Garcia, Sofia; Nardotto, Mattia; Propper, Carol; … - 2020
corresponding medical benefits for patients. Heterogeneity analysis shows that mothers with low income and low education are those … argue that patient’s access to online information is changing the relationship between health care providers and patients. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425638
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Education, Cognition, Health Knowledge, and Health Behavior
Mocan, Naci; Altindag, Duha T. - 2013
Using data from NLSY97 we analyze the impact of education on health behavior. Controlling for health knowledge does not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500243
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Monotone threshold representations
Frick, Mira - In: Theoretical Economics 11 (2016) 3, pp. 757-772
Motivated by the literature on ``choice overload'', we study a boundedly rational agent whose choice behavior admits a \textit{monotone threshold representation}: There is an underlying rational benchmark, corresponding to maximization of a utility function $v$, from which the agent's choices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011599584
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Impatience, Anticipatory Feelings and Uncertainty: A Dynamic Experiment on Time Preferences
Casari, Marco; Dragone, Davide - 2011
We study intertemporal choices through an experiment that elicits a subject's plan and then tracks its implementation over time. There are two main results. When facing a costly task to be completed under a deadline, two thirds of subjects prefer anticipating it rather than postponing it. Choice...
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Risk Aversion and Son Preference: Experimental Evidence from Chinese Twin Parents
Chew, Soo Hong; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen; Zhong, Songfa - 2017
We study the role of risk aversion underlying son preference in patriarchal societies, where sons serve as better insurance for old-age support than daughters. The implications of an insurance motive on son preference are two-fold. First, prior to the birth of their children, more risk-averse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653247
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How to cope with (new) uncertainties: A bounded rationality approach
Güth, Werner; Kliemt, Hartmut - 2015
A rigorous reconstruction of scenario-based real choice making reveals the incompleteness of decision-modeling and the practical prevalence of uncertainty. Theoretically complete models conceal it. As a remedy a scenario-based procedure of coping with uncertainty can prescribe how the boundedly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282453