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service. Yet over half leave within the first year, and cognitive skills are also strong predictors of who exits too early … affect the economic lives of individuals, by systematically changing preferences and choices in a way that favors the …Economic analysis has said little about how an individual's cognitive skills (CS's) are related to the individual …
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Incorporating weakly nonseparable preferences into the familiar time-preference model, we emphasize a role of steady …-state welfare changes in determining the effect of permanent tariffs on the current account. The effect consists of: a welfare … initial distortion, a marginal tariff has a first-order welfare effect on the current-account. Its sign does not depend on …
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of economic preferences and personality traits such as mindfulness may improve the analysis of potential sources of … satisfaction, the findings furthermore point into the direction that the development of mindfulness skills might help students to … the present moment, for example to a decision making process. This study explores the relationship between mindfulness and …
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evidence about the role of genetics in this transmission process. In our paper, we use data on roughly 3,000 twins from the … German TwinLife project to estimate the heritability of time preference. We rely on an experimentally validated survey … measure of temporal discounting, namely, self-assessed patience. The analysis of monozygotic and dizygotic twins enables us to …
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