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Long Term Effects of Health Investments and Parental Favoritism : The Case of Breastfeeding

Fletcher, Jason M. - 2011

compensating or reinforcing behaviors by parents. These biases may be particularly important for estimating the effects of parental … parental favoritism to adjust for potential reinforcing behavior by parents. Standard fixed effects estimates suggest important …

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Lowering barriers to remote education : experimental impacts on parental responses and learning

Beam, Emily A.; Mukherjee, Priya; Navarro-Sola, Laia - 2022

parents adjust their investments in response to three educational interventions: an informational campaign about an …

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Parental Socialization Effort and the Intergenerational Transmission of Risk Preferences

Alan, Sule - 2015

We study the transmission of risk attitudes in a unique survey of mothers and children in which both participated in an … incentivized risk preference elicitation task. We document that risk preferences are correlated between mothers and children when … the children are just 7 to 8 years old. This correlation is only present for daughters. We show that a measure of parental …

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A field study of donor behaviour in the Iranian kidney market

Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Sgroi, Daniel - 2022

Iran has the world's only government-regulated kidney market. We report the results of the first field study of donor behaviour in this unusual market. Participants have lower risk tolerance and higher patience levels than the Iranian average but display no difference in rationality from...

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Temporal Stability, Cross-Validity, and External Validity of Risk Preferences Measures : Experimental Evidence from a UK Representative Sample

Galizzi, Matteo M - 2016

We conduct an “artefactual” field experiment to incorporate three different risk preferences measures within the …-F), and in health (SOEP-H). One year later (IP7) the same measures are repeated for 413 of these respondents. This design … across IP6 and IP7. Third, we look at external validity by considering a range of risky health and financial behaviors in the …

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You can win by losing! : using self-betting as a commitment device : evidence from a weight loss program

Hirt-Schierbaum, Linda; Ivets, Maryna - 2020

In this paper we investigate the influence of financial incentives on agents’ commitment success who use a self-bet mechanism to overcome their self-control problems. We use results from the theoretical model developed in Hirt-Schierbaum and Ivets (2020) that allows for heuristic bias in...

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Habit formation and rational addiction : a field experiment in handwashing

Hussam, Reshmaan; Rabbani, Atonu; Reggiani, Giovanni; … - 2017

We test the main predictions of the rational addiction model, reconceptualized as rational habit formation, in the context of handwashing. To track habit formation, we design soap dispensers with timed sensors. We test for rational habit formation by informing some households about a future...

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Late fertility : its causal effects on health of the newborn and its implications in fertility decision process

Vandresse, Marie - 2008

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Family behavior : implications for health benefits transfer from adults to children

Dickie, Mark; Gerking, Shelby - In: Environmental & resource economics : the official … 43 (2009) 1, pp. 31-43

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Timing of family income, borrowing constraints, and child achievement

Knoth Humlum, Maria - In: Journal of population economics 24 (2011) 3, pp. 979-1004

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