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Torbett-Hutchings-Smith Memorial Hospital geothermal-system demonstration at Marlin, Texas. Final design report
2007
The final design and economics of the Torbett-Hutchings-Smith (THS) Memorial Hospital geothermal heating system at … Marlin, Texas are outlined. A brief description of the existing heating system, an overview of the geothermal retrofit, and … the results of an economic analysis are included. It is estimated that the geothermal heating system will displace …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436668
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Coal, smoke, and death : bituminous coal and American home heating
Barreca, Alan I.; Clay, Karen; Tarr, Joel A. - 2014
at the state-year-season level. It exploits the fact that coal consumption for heating was highest in the winter and uses … in the use of bituminous coal for heating between 1945 and 1960 decreased winter all-age mortality by 1.25 percent and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250025
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Does the reliability of institutions affect public good contributions? : evidence from a laboratory experiment
Fochmann, Martin; Jahnke, Björn; Wagener, Andreas - 2016
Reliable institutions - i.e., institutions that live up to the norms that agents expect them to keep - foment cooperative behavior. We experimentally confirm this hypothesis in a public goods game with a salient norm that cooperation was socially demanded and corruption ought not to occur. When...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430174
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The predominant role of signal precision in experimental beauty contests
Baeriswyl, Romain; Cornand, Camille - In: The B.E. journal of theoretical economics 16 (2016) 1, pp. 267-301
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Delay of gratification and the role of defaults : an experiment with kindergarten children
Sutter, Matthias; Yilmaz, Levent; Oberauer, Manuela - 2015
. We study in an experiment with 336 kindergarten children, aged three to six years, whether intertemporal choice behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317627
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The influence of priming on reference states
Matthey, Astrid - In: Games 1 (2010) 1, pp. 34-52
outcomes of either the individual herself or her reference group. The experiment described in this paper suggests that, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009751388
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Willpower depletion and framing effects
Haan, Thomas de; Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2013
We investigate whether depleting people's cognitive resources (or "willpower") affects the degree to which they are susceptible to framing effects. Recent research in social psychology and economics has suggested that willpower is a resource that can be temporarily depleted and that a depleted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793156
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Distributed decisions in networks : laboratory study of routing splittable flow
Rapoport, Amnon; Gisches, Eyran J.; Mak, Vincent - In: Production and operations management : an international … 23 (2014) 2, pp. 314-331
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The social pay gap across occupations : survey and experimental evidence
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Regner, Tobias - 2016
, education). Based on these results, we design a laboratory experiment that mimics actual income distributions (Germany, USA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455517
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The impact of goals and public rewards on a prosocial behaviour : an exploratory economic experiment
Farrow, Katherine; Pessoa e Costa, Sofia; Grolleau, Gilles - In: Applied economics letters 22 (2015) 4/6, pp. 305-311
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