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Endowment Effects in Chimpanzees
Brosnan, Sarah F.; Jones, Owen D.; Lambeth, Susan P.; … - 2020
Human behavior is not always consistent with standard rational choice predictions. The much-investigated variety of apparent deviations from rational choice predictions provides a promising arena for the merger of economics and biology. Although little is known about the extent to which other...
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The Endowment Effect in Orangutans
Flemming, Timothy; Jones, Owen D.; Mayo, Laura; … - 2013
The endowment effect is the seemingly irrationally tendency to immediately value a possessed item more than the opportunity to acquire the identical item when one does not already possess it. The phenomenon has broad legal implications, as it suggests a drag on trade, occasioned by inconsistent...
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Explaining the gap between the theoretical prediction and experimental evidences about the investment in the spouse's human capital
Liu, Xuemei - In: The journal of socio-economics 38 (2009) 3, pp. 411-414
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Marriage as Punishment
Murray, Melissa - 2011
Popular discourse portrays marriage as a source of innumerable public and private benefits, happiness, companionship … access, the exercise of which is an act of autonomy and free will. However, a closer look at marriage’s past reveals a more … complicated portrait. Marriage has been used - and importantly, continues to be used - as state-imposed sexual discipline. Until …
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Beauty Fades : An Experimental Study of Federal Court Design Patent Aesthetics
Torrance, Andrew W. - 2020
Courts are rarely asked to judge beauty. Such a subjective practice would normally be anathema to the ideal of objective legal standards. However, one area of federal law has a long tradition of explicitly requiring courts to make aesthetic decisions: the law of design. New designs may be...
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How married couples make charitable giving decisions
Einolf, Christopher J.; Curran, Hillary Darville; … - In: Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly 47 (2018) 3, pp. 657-669
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Why household inefficiency? : an experimental approach to assess spousal resource distribution preferences in a subsistence population undergoing socioeconomic change
Stieglitz, Jonathan; Gurven, Michael; Kaplan, Hillard S.; … - 2016
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What if women earned more than their spouse? : an experimental investigation of work division in couples
Cochard, François; Couprie, Hélène; Hopfensitz, Astrid - 2015
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The power of love : a subtle driving force for unegalitarian labor division?
Görges, Luise - In: Review of Economics of the Household 13 (2015) 1, pp. 163-192
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Experimental evidence on bargaining power within couples : conference paper
Beninger, Denis; Beblo, Miriam - 2014
We conducted an experiment on the nature of income sharing within 95 established couples in Germany. In a first step, the partners revealed their individual preferences by making consumption choices independently. In a second step, decisions were taken jointly over five different rounds with...
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