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Hormones and social preferences
Buser, Thomas - 2011
We examine whether social preferences are determined by hormones. We do this by investigating whether markers for the strength of prenatal testosterone exposure (finger length ratios) and current exposure to progesterone and oxytocin (the menstrual cycle) are correlated with choices in social...
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High Stakes Behavior with Low Payoffs : Inducing Preferences with Holt-Laury Gambles
Dickhaut, John W. - 2009
A continuing goal of experiments is to understand risky decisions when the decisions are important. Often a decision's importance relates to the magnitude of the associated monetary stake. Khaneman and Tversky (1979) argue that risky decisions in high stakes environments can be informed using...
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How do consumers choose health insurance? : an experiment on heterogeneity in attribute tastes and risk preferences
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja; Kokot, Johanna; Vomhof, Markus; … - 2014
Recent health policy reforms try to increase consumer choice. We use a laboratory experiment to analyze consumers …
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How Do Consumers Choose Health Insurance? – An Experiment on Heterogeneity in Attribute Tastes and Risk Preferences
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja - 2015
Recent health policy reforms try to increase consumer choice. We use a laboratory experiment to analyze consumers …
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Heterogeneity in health insurance choice : an experimental investigation of consumer choice and feature preferences
Hermanns, Benedicta; Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja; Kokot, Johanna - 2023
data from a controlled laboratory experiment. Within the experiment, participants make consecutive insurance choices based …
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Risky Data : The Combined Effect of Framing, Trust and Risk Preferences on the Intended Participation in the Consumer Data Right
Biddle, Nicholas - 2019
The Consumer Data Right (CDR), which began in Australian on the 1st of July 2019, aims to give Australian customers a right to access data about them held by businesses, and also to share this information with accredited and trusted third parties of their choice. This enhanced flow of...
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Determinants of financial literacy and behavioral bias among adolescents
Aschenwald, Marco; Holzknecht, Armando; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2023
matters). We confirm the findings of previous literature that the male gender is positively associated with financial …
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Gender Differences in Preferences of Students-Players in Online Digital Gamers
Rubtcova, Mariia - 2020
The report deals with the problem of gender differences of players in online digital gamers. .We made sociological …. The questionnaire was conducted to reveal the main gender differences in preferences of players in online digital gamers … communicate with other players.We made the conclusion, that gender preferences of students-players in online digital gamers has …
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Experience Goods and Risk Preferences
McCannon, Bryan C. - 2012
Experience goods are those where the utility received is not known until consumed. The purchase can be viewed as a lottery. Consequently, risk preferences should affect willingness to pay and the price. Data from panels of experts rating cigars is used to test this assertion. For inexpensive...
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Goal Bracketing and Self-Control
Hsiaw, Alice - 2016
This paper studies the role of goal bracketing to attenuate time inconsistency. When setting non-binding goals for a multi-stage project, an agent must also decide how and when to evaluate himself against such goals. In particular, he can bracket broadly by setting an aggregate goal for the...
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