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Making marriages last : trust is good, but credible information is better
Thornton, Rebecca L.; Kohler, Hans-Peter - 2017
documents that uncertainty about spouses' HIV status contributes to marital dissolutions. Innovations, such as HIV couples …' testing and counselling - and, in the future, possibly rapid self-testing - that reduce this uncertainty can thus have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777034
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The more you know : information effects on job application rates in a large field experiment
Gee, Laura K. - 2016
This paper presents the results from a 2.3 million person field experiment that varies whether or not a job seeker sees the number of applicants for a job posting on a large job posting website, LinkedIn. This intervention increases the likelihood that a person will finish an application by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581666
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The More You Know: Information Effects on Job Application Rates in a Large Field Experiment
Gee, Laura Katherine - 2016
This paper presents the results from a 2.3 million person field experiment that varies whether or not a job seeker sees the number of applicants for a job posting on a large job posting website, LinkedIn. This intervention increases the likelihood that a person will finish an application by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584687
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Discounting and confidence
Traeger, Christian P. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2011
The paper analyzes the discount rate under uncertainty. The analysis complements the probabilistic characterization of … uncertainty by a measure of confidence. Special cases of the model comprise discounting under smooth ambiguity aversion as well as … general class of preferences for which uncertainty implies a reduction of the discount rate. It also characterizes how the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646069
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Subjective risk, confidence, and ambiguity
Traeger, Christian P. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2009
his confidence in the uncertainty assessment of a particular setting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646078
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Discounting and confidence
Traeger, Christian P. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2011
The paper analyzes the discount rate under uncertainty. The analysis complements the probabilistic characterization of … uncertainty by a measure of confidence. Special cases of the model comprise discounting under smooth ambiguity aversion as well as … general class of preferences for which uncertainty implies a reduction of the discount rate. It also characterizes how the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010676464
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Subjective Risk, Confidence, and Ambiguity
Traeger, Christian P. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2011
his confidence in the uncertainty assessment of a particular setting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130823
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Trapped in the "zero-risk" society and how to break free
Sornette, Didier; Cauwels, Peter - 2020
We live in a ‘zero-risk society', characterized by a culture that is obsessed with controlling and removing any possible risks. Obviously, one of the fundamental objectives of any civilization is to improve the safety and security of its citizens. However, we should not let the cozy comfort...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271226
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A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
earnings variability are due to uncertainty and which components are due to components of human diversity that are forecastable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822493
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Distributional Comparative Statics
Jensen, Martin Kaae - Department of Economics, University of Birmingham - 2012
An important set of questions in economics concern how changes in the distribution of economic parameters (income, wealth, productivity, distortions, information, etc.) impact individual choices and market outcomes. We currently do not have tools to answer such questions. In this paper, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010602478