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behavioural point of view. This paper presents a laboratory experiment to test whether the poor show more impatient behaviour. In … the experiment, half of the participants gets a high participation fee, while the other half gets a low participation fee …, ob sich Arme ungeduldiger verhalten. Im Experiment erhält eine Hälfte der Teilnehmer eine hohe Teilnahmevergütung …
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The life-cycle theory of saving behavior (Modigliani, 1988) suggests that humans strive towards an equal intertemporal distribution of wealth. However, behavioral life-cycle theory (Shefrin & Thaler, 1988) proposes that people use self control heuristics to postpone wealth until later in life....
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The experimental situation presents a complex stochastic intertemporal allocation problem. First, two initial chance moves select one of three possible termination probabilities which then determines whether "life" lasts 3,4,5, or 6 periods. Compared to Anderhub et al. (1997) participants are...
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Higher-order risk effects play an important role in examining economic behavior under uncertainty. A precautionary demand for saving has been linked to the property of prudence and the property of temperance has been used to show how the presence of an unavoidable risk affects one's behavior...
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