, motivation and the cost of teachers. This study relies on a Discrete Choice Experiment to assess the job preferences of a sample …-teachers). Skills in English, Arithmetic and Vocabulary are also tested. We find a trade-off between skills and preferences, as teacher … differences in job preferences between the two groups can be explained by geographic origin of the teachers, skills, experience …

the marriage, in the case where preferences of partners are unknown, will be accepted. In this sense consumption is …

from reference-dependent preferences: The absolute subjective value of a deviation from a reference point is generally …

allocations. As women usually have lower incomes and higher child preferences than men, a policy implication of our findings is …

We provide characterizations of preferences representable by a Cobb-Douglas utility function. …

experimentally elicited preferences for risk and giving. Using standard methods from behavior genetics, we find strong prima facie … evidence that these preferences are broadly heritable and our estimates suggest that genetic differences explain approximately … preferences, a source which has hitherto largely been neglected in the economics literature. …