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Optimal Task Assignments with Loss-Averse Agents
Balmaceda, Felipe - 2018
This paper studies optimal task assignments in a setting where agents are expectation-based loss averse according to KoszegiRabin (2006) and KoszegiRabin (2007) and are compensated according to an aggregated performance measure in which tasks are technologically independent. We show that the...
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High-powered performance pay and crowding out of non-monetary motives
Huffman, David; Bognanno, Michael Leonard - 2018
A previous literature cautions that paying workers for performance might crowd out non-monetary motives to work hard. Empirical evidence from the field, however, has been based on between-subjects designs that are best suited for detecting crowding out due to low-powered incentives. High-powered...
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Chapter Six. Who Ordered That? The Economics of Treatment Choices in Medical Care
Chandra, Amitabh; Cutler, David; Song, Zirui - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 2, (pp. 397-432). 2011
, the chapter surveys patient or demand-side factors such as price, income, and preferences; physician or supply …
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The effect of teenage employment on character skills, expectations and occupational choice strategies
Fuchs, Benjamin - 2016 - This draft: September 22, 2016
A growing body of research suggests that, even after controlling for cognitive abilities, personality predicts economic …
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What can the big five personality factors contributr to explain small-scale economic behavior?
Müller, Julia; Schwieren, Christiane - 2012
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Behavioral research and empirical modeling of marketing channels : Implications for both fields and a call for future research
Meyer, Robert J. - 2020
actions are incomplete and often biased; second, players' preferences and optimization objectives are not commonly known; and …
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Do Dual Discounting Equations Reconcile Exponential Banks with Their Hyperbolic Customers?
Osborne, Michael - 2020
There is an apparent rift between the way banks calculate and the way humans think.On the one hand, exponential discounting has played a centuries-long, lead role in financial analysis. On the other hand, experiments by behavioral economists demonstrate that hyperbolic discounting is better than...
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Compensated discount functions : an experiment on the influence of expected income on time preferences
Ambrus, Attila; Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir; Noor, Jawwad - 2014
times are influenced by their expected income levels at those times. Moreover, we recover time preferences after … design also elicited their preferences over delayed rewards that are received only if the subject's income remains … approximately constant. These preferences, along with elicited subjective probabilities of satisfying the condition, make the …
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Time preferences and criminal behavior
Åkerlund, David; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Grönqvist, Hans; … - 2014
first empirical investigation of the link between time preferences and criminal behavior. Our study is made possible by … access to a unique Swedish longitudinal dataset that links individual measures of time preferences collected at age 13 to …
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Time discounting, present biases, and health-related behavior
Kang, Myong-Il; Ikeda, Shinsuke - 2013
Analysis of an original nationwide Internet survey reveals that health-related behavior shows associations with three aspects of time discounting: (i) impatience, measured by the overall discount rate; (ii) present bias, measured by the degree of declining impatience in the generalized hyperbolic...
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