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Artisanal fishers’ ethnobotany: from plant diversity use to agrobiodiversity management

Peroni, Nivaldo; Begossi, Alpina; Hanazaki, Natalia - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 10 (2008) 5, pp. 623-637

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‘Beyond the Lens of Peasantry’: Theoretical Basis of ‘Fishantry’ as a Distinct Social Domain (Part 1)

Deb, Apurba Krishna; Haque, C. Emdad - In: International Journal of Social Science Research 2 (2014) 1, pp. 77-101

Historically, fishers have been embodied among rural primary producers, and they have been largely overlooked in … up the challenge to analyze the theoretical basis and argues in favour of why fishers do deserve a separate analytical … treatment. We observed that, despite some commonalities, interactions, and dependencies between fishers and peasants as rural …

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Ostracism and Common Pool Resource Management in a Developing Country: Young Fishers in the Laboratory

Akpalu, Wisdom; Martin, Peter - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2009

were young fishers in Ghana. We find that the introduction of the possibility to ostracise other members of a group at a …

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Fourth Fisheries Project In Bangladesh an Integrated Project Analysis

Jenkins, Glenn Paul; Jayawardena, Migara S.; … - Economics Department, Queen's University

The Fourth Fisheries project in Bangladesh has been developed as part of the comprehensive fisheries policy implemented by the Government of Bangladesh. The project hopes to generate economic benefits while being financially sustainable. The fishermen stand to gain considerably as they can reap...

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Dynamic Experiments for Estimating Preferences: An Adaptive Method of Eliciting Time and Risk Parameters

Toubia, Olivier; Johnson, Eric; Evgeniou, Theodoros; … - In: Management Science 59 (2013) 3, pp. 613-640

We present a method that dynamically designs elicitation questions for estimating risk and time preference parameters. Typically these parameters are elicited by presenting decision makers with a series of static choices between alternatives, gambles, or delayed payments. The proposed method...

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Time Preferences and Criminal Behavior

Akerlund, David; Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Grönqvist, Hans; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

One main motive behind lengthy prison terms for serious crime is to deter potential offenders from engaging in crime. Yet, economic theory predicts that the scope for punishment as acting as a deterrent depends on how much individuals discount future events when balancing the immediate utility...

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Can Self-Control Explain Avoiding Free Money? Evidence from Interest-Free Student Loans

Cadena, Brian C.; Keys, Benjamin J. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 4, pp. 1117-1129

This paper uses insights from behavioral economics to explain a particularly surprising borrowing phenomenon: one in six undergraduate students offered interest-free loans turns them down. Models of impulse control predict that students may optimally reject subsidized loans to avoid excessive...

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An experimental investigation of time discounting in strategic settings

Deck, Cary; Jahedi, Salar - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 54 (2015) C, pp. 95-104

Several studies have shown that people greatly discount future benefits and costs, but few have examined how discounting is manifested in strategic settings. This paper investigates the degree to which the timing of payments affects behavior in four commonly studied strategic settings: a...

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On inconsistency of time preferences of people from the marginalised roma communities

Želinský, Tomáš - In: Politická ekonomie 2015 (2015) 2, pp. 204-222

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Decision Making Over Time and Under Uncertainty: A Common Approach

Prelec, Drazen; Loewenstein, George - In: Management Science 37 (1991) 7, pp. 770-786

This paper considers a number of parallels between risky and intertemporal choice. We begin by demonstrating a one-to-one correspondence between the behavioral violations of the respective normative theories for the two domains (i.e., expected utility and discounted utility models). We argue...

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