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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Belief elicitation"”.
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Studies in risk perception and financial literacy: applications using subjective belief elicitation
… reflect state-of-the-art advances in subjective belief elicitation that allow for the recovery of each decisionmaker’s entire underlying subjective distribution. This method generates a rich characterization of subjects’ beliefs and allows the construction of various measures of literacy, …
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Essays on Bubbles in Asset Market Experiments
… of Smith et al., 1988 focusing on the role of beliefs and cognitive sophistication of subjects. The authors informed the structure of asset dividend payments to all subjects; however, bubble and crash price patterns with active transactions are found in the markets. The bubbles are found …
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The human papillomavirus and cancer: a multiphase study investigating preventative behaviours in young males
… Aim: To explore young men’s attitudes, beliefs, and behavioural intention in relation to receiving the HPV vaccine and using a condom correctly and consistently. Collectively, both behaviours are linked to the prevention of HPV transmission and associated infections with HPV. Method: A …
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The Decision to Comply With Workplace Law: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Human Resource Practitioners
… Study 1 and Study 2 explore how HR practitioners beliefs, attitudes, perceived norms, perceived behavioural control (self-efficacy), perceived risk, unionization, professional HR designations, self-assessed knowledge, tenure and sector influence self-reported compliance. Study 1 identified …
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Essays in Applied Labor and Health Economics
… Risks of Meaningful Work, examines how workers’ beliefs about autonomy, competence, and relatedness shape perceptions of meaningful work and influence labor-market behavior. Autonomy refers to the degree of control individuals have over their tasks and decisions; competence captures the extent to …
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Reasons theory and the belief-based components in the theory of planned behavior: Attempting to directly understand behavior
… behavior than behavioral, normative, and control belief components taken together in the theory of planned behavior, as well as carry most of the predictive weight. Results provide support for the above hypotheses. In addition, based upon the theory of planned behavior, a supplementary structural …
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Explaining the intention of IT workers to telework: A South African perspective
… to theory by highlighting the importance of belief elicitation when applying the TPB to different contexts.
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Self-selection and peer-effects in experimental labor markets
… pools. I found no difference in the norms elicitation between the two subject pools.</p> <p>For Chapters 1 and 2, I conducted my own experiments in India. For Chapter 3, I used the experimental data of Leider et al. (2009) to study the effects of social networks on non-cognitive skills, …