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The Impact of International Students on US Colleges : Higher Education as a Service Export

Chen, Mingyu - 2021

networks with different origins of international students, income growth, and exchange-rate fluctuations. Contrary to claims … that US-born students are crowded out, I find that international students increase schools' funding via tuition payments … recruit more students with high math scores. Lastly, states allocate more appropriations to universities that attract fewer …

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A Job yet-to-be-done : reinventing how universities define student needs

Gramescu, Lucian; Bibu, Nicolea - In: Journal of strategic management education : JSME 11 (2015), pp. 35-60

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When being wasteful appears better than feeling wasteful

Zultan, Ro'i; Bar-Hillel, Maya; Guy, Nitsan - 2010

"Waste not want not" expresses our culture's aversion to waste. "I could have gotten the same thing for less" is a sentiment that can diminish pleasure in a transaction. We study people's willingness to "pay" to avoid this spoiler. In one scenario, participants imagined they were looking for a...

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Context-Dependent Choice as Explained by Foraging Theory

Li, Shengwu - 2018

An agent makes consumption choices in multiple periods. Choice objects vary in type and quality; objects of the same type are inter-temporal substitutes. The current choice set is informative about the distribution over future choice sets. Thus, the presence of unchosen alternatives may...

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Depression and Shopping Behavior

Meckel, Katherine; Shapiro, Bradley - 2021

Using a large survey panel that connects household shopping behavior with individual health information, this paper documents correlations between self reported depression and the size and composition of shopping baskets. First, we find that roughly 16% of individuals report suffering from...

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The role of company reputation in mitigating negative word of mouth

Rahmani, Shinta; Halim, Rizal Edy; Gayatri, Gita; … - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 22 (2021) 1, pp. 109-120

of mouth (eWOM). We conducted experimental research in two studies along with 225 college students, who at least have two …

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A note on moral licensing and foot-in-the-door effect

Ulph, Alistair; Panzone, Luca; Hilton, Denis J. - 2019

Literature in economics and psychology on moral behaviour explores the contexts in which people act in ways that are consistent or inconsistent with their past actions. Such inconsistencies appear to violate economists' assumption of rational consumer behaviour. In this note we show that a...

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Incorporating Context Effects into a Choice Model

Rooderkerk, Robert P.; van Heerde, Harald J.; Bijmolt, … - 2013

The behavioral literature provides ample evidence that consumer preferences are partly driven by the context provided by the set of alternatives. Three important context effects are the compromise, attraction, and similarity effect. As these context effects affect choices in a systematic and...

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In Search of Homo Economicus : Preference Consistency, Emotions, and Cognition

Lee, Leonard; Amir, On; Ariely, Dan - 2011

Understanding the roles of emotion and cognition in forming preferences is critical in helping firms choose effective marketing strategies and consumers make appropriate consumption decisions. In this work, we investigate the role of the emotional and cognitive systems in preference consistency...

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The relation between the effects of testimonials' sources and the cognitive, affective and behavioural changes

Tocila, Tudor; Cara, Corina - In: International journal of business and economic sciences … 9 (2016) 2, pp. 59-64

Purpose - Endorsement strategies have a well-known potential of generating good results and there are various studies which refer to the endorsement sources as either a contextually effective or ineffective strategy. The present study is a new approach on this topic and it aims at identifying...

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