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Nährwertkennzeichnung: die Ampel erreicht die Verbraucher am besten
Hagen, Kornelia - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 22, pp. 2-12
Mehr als die Hälfte der Erwachsenen in Deutschland ist übergewichtig. Besonders oft betroffen sind Ältere, Arme und Menschen mit geringer Bildung. Ein Thema für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler? Ernährung und fehlende Bewegung sind entscheidende Faktoren für wichtige Volkskrankheiten. Für durch...
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Notes on behavioral economics and labor market policy
Babcock, Linda; Congdon, William J.; Katz, Lawrence F.; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-14
Labor market policies succeed or fail at least in part depending on how well they reflect or account for behavioral responses. Insights from behavioral economics, which allow for realistic deviations from standard economic assumptions about behavior, have consequences for the design and...
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Senegalesische Corona-Songs als Sensibilisierungs- und Informationsquelle für wolofsprachige Geflüchtete und Migrant*innen
Stier, Julia - In: Zeitschrift für Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung 4 (2020) 1, pp. 131-148
During the Corona pandemic, access to reliable information is particularly relevant in order to be able to take … protective measures. However, migrants and refugees in transit and residence countries often lack such access to information …. This opens the opportunity for alternative sources of raising awareness and information. Corona Songs about COVID-19 and …
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Financial education and consumers’ willingness to change behavior
Chatterjee, Swarn; Green-Pimentel, Leslie; Turner, Pamela - In: Investment Management and Financial Innovations 7 (2010) 3, pp. 73-81
This paper uses proprietary data comprising of 4,155 participants who attended financial education seminars conducted by a major U.S. consumer credit counseling agency in 2007. In this study, knowledge gained from attending the seminars is estimated using a multivariate regression model. Results...
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Individual wealth accumulation: Why does dining together as a family matter?
Chatterjee, Swarn; Palmer, Lance; Goetz, Joseph - In: Applied Economics Research Bulletin 8, 2, pp. 1-22
This study uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine whether self-regulation, proxied by regularly dining together with family, is associated with better financial preparedness and greater wealth accumulation across time among households. Findings reveal that individuals who...
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Verbraucherberatung in Verbraucherzentralen: Orientierung an den Interessen der Verbraucher und Instrument zur Weiterentwicklung der Verbraucherpolitik
Benner, Eckhard; Weiser, Beate - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 78 (2009) 3, pp. 144-159
Consumer advice should reduce asymmetric information between consumer and supplier as well as provide confidence in … markets. However, consumer advice itself is characterised by asymmetric information between adviser and consumer. The article … figures out this aspect and shows how consumers cope with this information situation under certain consumer policy conditions …
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Warum bekam Mirrlees den Nobelpreis?
Bös, Dieter - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 76 (1996) 12, pp. 656-660
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Information, Märkte, Zitronen und Signale: Zum Nobelpreis an George Akerlof, Michael Spence und Joseph Stiglitz
Emons, Winand - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 81 (2001) 11, pp. 664-668
Mit dem diesjährigen Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften wurden drei Ökonomen ausgezeichnet, die mit der Informationsökonomik ein neues Forschungsfeld erschlossen. Welche Erkenntnisse wurden mit der Informationsökonomik gewonnen? Welche praktischen Implikationen ergeben sich aus dem...
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The Economics of Information Technology (Editorial)
Preissl, Brigitte - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 69 (2000) 4, pp. 487-490
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Preferences and skills of Indian public sector teachers 2u<
Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-31
With a sample of 700 future public sector primary teachers in India, a Discrete Choice Experiment is used to measure job preferences, particularly regarding location. General skills are also tested. Urban origin teachers and women are more averse to remote locations than rural origin teachers...
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