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Global power shifts and the future of democracy : an evolutionary approach, with special attention to China

Owen, John M. - 2016

general questions concerning the regional and global waxing and waning of domestic regime types. Evolution's claims about the … variety, selection, and retention of traits (in this case, democracy), rightly understood, can accommodate not only the … co-evolution and niche construction are crucial: an agent may modify its environment such that one or more traits of that …

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Turning values concrete : the role and ways of business selection in local currency schemes

Blanc, Jérôme; Fare, Marie - In: Review of social economy : publication of the … 74 (2016) 3, pp. 298-319

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Hazardous Agrochemicals, Smoking, and Farmers’ Differences in Wage-Risk Tradeoffs

Nastis, Stefanos A.; Michailidis, Anastasios - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010

This paper utilizes the theory of compensating differentials for job risks from the labor economics literature to evaluate farmers’ differences in wage-risk tradeoffs. In the context of job risks, the theory predicts that farmers who place a lower value on health status are willing to work for...

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Participation in Off-Farm Employment, Risk Preferences, and Weather Variability: The Case of Ethiopia

Bezabih, Mintewab; Gebreegziabher, Zenebe; GebreMedhin, … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE; … - 2010

This article assesses the relative importance of risk preferences and rainfall availability on households’ decision to engage in off-farm employment. Devoting time for off-farm activities, while it helps households earn additional incomes, involves a number of uncertainties. Unique panel data...

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Time to Change What to Sow: Risk Preferences and Technology Adoption Decisions of Cotton Farmers in China

Liu, Elaine Meichen - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2008

The slow diffusion of new technology in the agricultural sector of developing countries has long puzzled development economists. While most of the current empirical research on technology adoption focuses on credit constraints and learning spillovers, this paper examines the role of individual...

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Parenthood and risk preferences

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Freie Universität … - 2015

This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...

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Lifecycle Patterns in the Socioeconomic Gradient of Risk Preferences

Schurer, Stefanie - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015

Who is most likely to change their risk preferences over the lifecourse? Using German nationally representative survey data and methods to separate age from cohort effects, we estimate the lifecycle patterns in the socioeconomic gradient of self-reported risk preferences. Tolerance to risk drops...

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Parenthood and Risk Preferences

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

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Predicting health behaviors with economic preferences & locus of control

Conell-Price, Lynn; Jamison, Julian - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 54 (2015) C, pp. 1-9

We present new results on the relationship between health behaviors and experimental measures of time and risk preferences. In contrast to recent findings in the economics literature, we find no evidence of a link between time preference and self-reported health behaviors and outcomes such as...

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В статье изложены основы теории поведенческих финансов, определяющей из которых является теория перспектив Д. Канемана и А. Тверски, представлены предпосылки ее...

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