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We investigate the presence and stability of dynamically inconsistent time preferences across contexts with and without interpersonal trade-offs. In a longitudinal experiment subjects make a series of intertemporal allocation decisions of real-effort tasks between themselves and another person....
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We analyze individuals with heterogeneous time-inconsistent preferences that consume sin goods and make a savings … sin good and savings choices in ict internalities. Due to the ex-ante moral hazard of health insurance, sin good … consumption also causes an externality. If the individuals' utility is such that savings and sin good demand decisions are decou …
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This paper examines the role of ethnic-based gender norms in explaining the occurrence and intensity of sexual violence in conflict. We generate a novel dyadic dataset that contains information on the ethnic identity of the actors involved in 33 ethnic civil conflicts in Africa between 1989 and...
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This paper proposes three theoretical mechanisms through which polygyny may be related to social unrest. The mechanisms are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic,...
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The recent literature has emphasized that government intervention when consumers have quasi-hyperbolic preferences ('bias for the present') over consumption is not welfare-enhancing. This paper introduces a market imperfection (which takes the form of a negative externality) and shows that...
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Vegetables play an important role in human nutrition, as they have a high content of nutrients. In the last five years, there has been a tendency to increase the consumption of vegetables among Romanians, this being attributed to the increase of the living standard, but also to the reorientation...
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Higher order risk preferences are well-known for their relation with precautionary saving or portfolio allocation. Theoretically, they are also connected with other important behavior, such as health-related or eco-friendly behavior, but these relations have never been investigated with field...
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