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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Consumption choices"”.
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Essays on the Impacts of Environment on Uncertainty Attitudes and Consumption Choices
… and their allocation of marginal income to consumption. This essay shows that people increase their marginal allocation to expenses when the associated risk and ambiguity aversion is high. The main results show that the ambiguity aversion explains the increased marginal allocation to …
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"Reading ""Rabotnitsa"": Ideals, Aspirations, and Consumption Choices for Soviet Women, 1914--1964"
… systems, including both the management of consumption and oppression of women.
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Do You Feel Like a Fraud? How Experiencing the Impostor Phenomenon Influences Consumption Choices
… phenomenon and examines how they influence our consumption behavior. The impostor cycle is a model that shows how achievement related tasks lead to emotions and behaviors that perpetuate the impostor phenomenon. We examine how individuals experience the impostor cycle differently and how this …
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A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Social Relationships in Consumer Behavior
… source of social influence: the effect of making consumption choices for different types of others. I focus on two theoretically relevant relational dimensions, closeness and competitiveness, and show across eight experiments that making goal-related consumption choices for others can influence …
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FASHIONABLE POLITICS The discursive construction of ethical consumerism in corporate communications, news media, and social media
… – a notion that encompasses both ‘conscious’ consumption choices and responsible’ corporate activities – in mediated discourses about fashion and clothing consumption in Sweden. Drawing on the discourse-historical approach within critical discourse analysis, the study provides an empirical …
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Universal dimensions of power and gender: consumption, survival and helping
… Considering distinct substantive areas such as consumption, survival, and helping, this dissertation aims to show the dynamic interplay of power and gender in human-human interactions (essay 1) and in the human-nonhuman interactions (essays 2 and 3). Essay 1 examines whether and how individuals’ …
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Three essays in real estate economics
… an integrated analysis of housing investment and consumption choices that takes into account both the uncertainty in investment returns and liquidity constraints. Essay one presents a model of real estate trading with brokerage that integrates sequential search, two-sided matching, and the …
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Health Promotion in Multiple Domains: Capitalizing on the Spillover Effect
… behaviors, such as physical activity and food consumption choices, play a critical role in the development of chronic diseases and ultimately mortality. Optimally, multiple health-related behaviors are changed to reduce risk rather than targeting only one risk behavior. The purpose of the …
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Essays in the economics of retirement income security and household decision-making
… studies married couple's dynamic investment and consumption choices under the assumption that the couple cannot commit across time to not to renegotiate their decisions. The inefficiencies that can arise are characterized. Efficiency properties of different divorce asset division regimes are …
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The Politics of Self-provisioning in North-central West Virginia
… in the politicization of food production and consumption choices. In contrast to more convenient forms of "ethical consumption" such as buying organic or local, household-level food production requires a great deal of labor-time, knowledge, and social support. But does food self-provisioning …
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What it’s Worth: Preferences and Expectations of Music Listeners in the Evaluation of Material Affordances
… between the materiality of cultural objects and consumption practices. Over the course of three chapters, I utilize data gathered from semi-structured interviews with heavy consumers of music to demonstrate that the shift from analog to digital technologies has shaped how everyday consumers …
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Essays In Fiscal Policy
… transfer payments to directly affect the consumption choices of rule-of-thumb agents permits a new interpretation of time series evidence regarding which fiscal instruments have historically financed government debt. The economic impact of fiscal adjustments is studied for two labor supply …
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Influence in decision-making: perspectives of adolescent ethical food consumption
… to influence ethical food decision-making and consumption choices in their families. The study explores family microenvironment and the implications they might have for our existing understanding of family consumption. Although many studies have examined adolescents’ food consumption, few …
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An Exploratory Study of Household Alcohol Consumption from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey with a Focus on Market Conditions and Regulatory Structures
<p>Alcohol consumption and use is not just a harmful behavior or a potential recreational activity, but it also may form a way of self-identification.</p> <p>Each type of beverage apparently has their own profile of dedicated drinkers. Those drinkers are also apparently loyal to the location of …
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Exploring the meanings Jordanian consumers allocate to foreign brands: an ethnography on understanding the effect of brand country of origin image on consumption
… and how these cues may influence consumers’ consumption choices. This research aims to explore the influence of COO image on consumers by exploring the various meanings attached to COO image among Jordanian consumers. <br/><br/>In doing so, several areas in the literature were explored to …
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To explore the tangible attributes contributing to brand meaning. A study of local food brands.
… perspective, consumers are highly involved with consumption choices in the local food brand category. The connectivity element is strong in that tangible attributes evidence intangible associations. They contribute to a positive self-concept and a shared ethos, through the notion of doing and …
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Act local, think global – The aesthetics of success: race and Beauty in the global south: a reflection on South African women content creators' online performances on YouTube and Instagram
… by digital content creators. However, these consumption choices of mine were not functions of random videos or pictures promoted on these platforms. Rather my consumption was driven by a desire to see women who looked like me - black women. From 2009 onward black diasporic women, and women on …
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Consumer Pride and Consumption-Based Family Rituals: A Field Study in Zagreb, Croatia
… development on consumer pride, it clearly drives consumption: take, for instance, consumers who use goods to communicate success. Thus, it is important to understand how consumers conceptualize pride and how pride influences consumer behavior. One consumer practice that generates emotion and …
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The Impact of the Purchasing Power of Young, Employed, Modern Working-class Women on the Design, Mass Manufacture and Consumption of Fashionable Lightweight Day Dresses, 1930-1939
… argues and proves that the close analysis of the consumption choices and the wearing of lightweight day dresses of this specific social group also became a significant reflection of major cultural and technological developments in mass modernity and social change in England in the 1930s. Central …
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