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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Economic preferences"”.
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Essays on Physiological and Psychological Influences of Economic Preferences
… and personality traits shape the way people make economic decisions. Situated within behavioral economics, it combines incentivized laboratory experiments with structural modeling to examine three factors across three papers: hunger, intelligence, and impulsivity. A central finding across all …
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Experiential and Neurobiological Influences on Economic Preferences and Risky Decision Making
Economic preferences are fundamental to risky decision making and other economic decision- making. Unlike traditional economics, which routinely assumes that individuals are endowed with stable preferences and try to maximize the expected utility when facing risky decision-making problems, …
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Optimization of Broken Rice Consumption through Understanding the Confluence of Sensory and Economic Preferences
… and can be found through combining individual preferences with willingness to pay. Broken rice (brokens) garner a significantly discounted price compared to the whole grains, despite offering very similar, if not the same or better, nutritional quality. Through analyzing rice samples with …
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The Interactive Effect of Policies and Preferences on Decision Making
Economic preferences are crucial in decision making. While some preferences remain stable, changes in economic preferences have been linked to institutional and policy changes. We conduct three studies to explore the ways in which decision making might be impacted by economic preferences and …
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MEASURING PUBLIC PREFERENCES FOR AND THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF THE MULTIFUNCTIONALITY OF AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES
… ecosystem services, rural heritage, rural economic validity, and domestic food security to name a few. Increasingly, countries want to compensate producers of agricultural commodities for providing these non-market externalities as well. Policy decision makers in the United States need …
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Essays on Strategic Behavior and Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Retirement Saving, Insurance, and Intergenerational Contexts
<p>This dissertation studies how individuals make economic decisions under information frictions, focusing on strategic behavior, behavioral responses to interventions, and the formation of economic preferences. Essay 1 examines whether economic behavior can be improved through short-term workplace …
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Three Essays on Behavioral Economics
<p>This dissertation investigates economic preferences as a central determinant of decision-making, paying particular attention to how such preferences are formed, how they are associated with subjective well-being, and how they can be activated through targeted intervention. Chapter 1 conducts …
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The visible and invisible dimensions of gender inequality in the Global South. Three essays on time use, mental load, and depression.
… or depression. Suffering from depression affects economic preferences and leads women to alter their health and saving behaviors in ways that could be detrimental in the long-run. Ultimately, this thesis shows that these dimensions of gender inequalities are more interconnected than they appear in …
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Human Behaviour and the Environment: Experiments in Behavioural Environmental Economics
… have largely been guided by the canonical economic model of human behaviour, based on the idea of ‘homo economicus’, neglecting important behavioural aspects of the relationship between human behaviour and the environment. This thesis examines some of the complex interrelations between …
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Essays on genetic variation and economic behavior
… used to shed light on individual differences in economic preferences, behaviors and outcomes. Chapter one uses the classical twin design to provide estimates of genetic and environmental influences on experimentally elicited preferences for risk and giving. The paper reports evidence that these …
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Empirical studies of bio-cultural commitments and economic choices
… experience biology, culture and the necessity of economic interaction. My research interests answer a broad question, "How do biological and cultural commitments interact with economic incentives to shape day-to-day choices?" Social welfare functions should take into account how bio-cultural …
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Empirical studies of bio-cultural commitments and economic choices
… experience biology, culture and the necessity of economic interaction. My research interests answer a broad question, "How do biological and cultural commitments interact with economic incentives to shape day-to-day choices?" Social welfare functions should take into account how bio-cultural …