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Hojman, Daniel; Kast, Felipe - 2014

This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures derived from commonly used static poverty measures. Our measures trade-off poverty levels and changes (gains and losses) over time, and are consistent with loss aversion. We characterize the partial ranking over income dynamics...

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Identification Problems in Personality Psychology

Borghans, Lex - 2011

This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by psychologists to infer traits are based on behaviors, broadly defined. These behaviors are produced from multiple traits interacting with incentives in situations. In general, measures...

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Widely-Used Measures of Overconfidence Are Confounded With Ability

Spiller, Stephen A. - 2023

measurement error provide a potential solution if researchers are willing to accept strong and untestable assumptions. This …

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A sociological perspective on measuring social norms by means of strategy method experiments

Rauhut, Heiko; Winter, Fabian - 2009

The measurement of social norms plays a pivotal role in many social sciences. While economists predominantly conduct …, on the one hand, often fall short in the measurement of more complex elements, such as the conditionality or the level of … observational data. -- Social norms ; measurement ; ultimatum game ; strategy method ; factorial surveys …

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Measuring risk aversion and the wealth effect

Heinemann, Frank - 2005

Measuring risk aversion is sensitive to assumptions about the wealth in subjects' utility functions. Data from the same subjects in low- and high-stake lottery decisions allow estimating the wealth in a pre-specified one-parameter utility function simultaneously with risk aversion. This paper...

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Measuring risk aversion with lists : a new bias

Bosch Domènech, Antoni; Silvestre, Joaquim - 2012

Laury one may be preferable for the measurement of risk aversion. -- risk aversion ; risk attitudes ; experiments ; lists …

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Measuring the Relative Productivity of Multitasking to Sole-Tasking in Household Production : New Experimental Evidence

Foster, Gigi - 2012

We present a household production model that incorporates multitasking and results from a customized experiment designed to measure the individual-specific productivity parameters from this model. We observe these productivity parameters under alternative incentive scenarios, designed to mimic...

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Measuring Efficiency and Risk Preferences in Dynamic Portfolio Choice

Magnani, Jacopo - 2020

This paper uses non-parametric methods to study the efficiency (Dybvig, 1988 and Post, 2003) and risk-profiles (Varian, 1988) of dynamic portfolio choices. We design an experiment which varies the number of states (complexity), and includes an equivalent static Arrow-Debreu problem. The results...

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Measuring Welfare and Spillover Effects of Ranking Information

Zou, Wenbo; Gao, Wenzheng - 2021

Ranking information is often provided to improve task performance, yet its welfare and spillover effects are rarely measured. We measure these effects in a controlled laboratory experiment, in which participants conduct a simple cognitive task and report their willingness-to-pay (WTP) to receive...

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Measuring risk aversion with lists : a new bias

Bosch Domènech, Antoni; Silvestre, Joaquim - 2012

preferable for the measurement of risk aversion. -- Risk aversion ; risk attitudes ; experiments ; lists ; elicitation method …

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