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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Risk Preferences"”.
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Essays on health economics and risk preferences
… essays on hospital response to regulation and risk preferences. Chapter 1 analyzes the Medicare Flex Program which allowed rural hospitals with fewer than 25 beds to convert to "Critical Access Hospital" status and receive cost-based Medicare reimbursement. Converting hospitals decrease their …
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Stochastic Technology, Risk Preferences, and the Use of Pollution Inputs
… have interpreted the effect of positive marginal risk premium for aggregate pesticide use as puzzling pesticide underuse."
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Decomposing trust into risk preferences, altruism, and subjective beliefs: An experimental analysis
… of literature suggesting that factors such as risk preferences, altruism, and subjective beliefs may confound this measure of trust, thereby questioning the validity of using the 'amount sent’ to elicit people’s levels of trust. To understand these factors, we designed and conducted an …
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Social influence of siblings and friends in generation Y's development of risk preferences
… as they are highly prone to engaging in risky behaviour such as binge drinking, smoking and other dangerous activities.
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Do Transaction Costs and Risk Preferences Influence Marketing Arrangements in the Illinois Hog Industry
Studies of hog industry structure often invoke risk reduction and transaction costs explanations for empirical observations, but fail to directly examine the relevant transaction attributes. This study employs unique survey and accounting data to explain Illinois producers' marketing arrangements …
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Analysing Risk Preferences and Time Preferences with respect to Smoking Status and Smoking Intensity
… relationship between smoking and factors such as risk preferences and time preferences has been the subject of a growing body of literature. This paper evaluates experimental data from smokers and nonsmokers at the University of Cape Town collected in 2016 and 2017. Maximum likelihood estimation …
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Risk preferences and the poverty trap : a look at technology uptake amongst small-scale farmers in the Western Cape
… We elicit behavioural traits; more specifically risk preferences, using lottery type experiments with real money at stake. Using a series of logit regressions we look at the relationship between these preferences i.e. risk aversion, loss aversion and nonlinear probability weighting and actual …
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Risk Aversion and Adoption of Conservation Agriculture Practices in Eastern Uganda
… yields. One theory is that poor farmers are risk averse and therefore do not invest in high risk high return innovations and that risk averse farmers will only adopt larger innovations if they experience success with small ones. Risk preferences were measured in two districts in Uganda …
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The impact of risk and time preferences on smoking behaviour in the context of a contingency management programme
… is an established body of research examining risk preferences, time preferences and smoking behaviour, there is little literature exploring the relationship between risk preferences, time preferences, and smoking cessation contingency management (CM) programmes. This dissertation evaluates a …
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Three essays in public economics
… Dynamics (PSID), which has measures of both risk preferences and religiosity along with measures of many risky behaviors, I investigate the implications of the correlations among risk preferences, religiosity and gender for the observed relationship of each of these variables with risky …
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Kenyan Vegetable Farmers' IPM adoption: barriers and impacts
… vegetable farmers, including the role of their risk preferences. It also analyzes factors affecting their pesticide applications and expenditures. A survey was administered to 450 Kenyan vegetable growers to identify their pest management practices, and a behavioral experiment was run to elicit …
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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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Model complexity and risk aversion in decision analysis
… more complex than merited. Yet, decision makers’ risk preferences are often ignored without considering the effect on recommendations. Additionally, modelers do not always understand the difference between preferences toward deterministic outcomes and risk preferences or the impact of modeling …
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Labor Migration in China
… impact of parental migration on children's risk preferences. In the first chapter, we briefly introduce the motivation and contribution, and then we provide the methods and detailed findings in the following chapters. Chapter 2 examines the impact of the endogeneity of the decision to …
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Empirical Studies in Production Economics and International Agricultural Development Issues
… in Ecuador, namely, markets, food value chains, risk preferences, and risk perceptions. The third manuscript titled "Does the Use of Specialty Varieties and Post-Harvest Practices Benefit Farmers? Cocoa Value Chains in Ecuador" analyzes the impact of the use of specialty cocoa varieties on …
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Risk, Religion, and Islamic Microfinance
… research design creates a framework in which the risk preferences and Islamic religiosity of Jordanian borrowers can be estimated. Specifically, this study highlights the different characteristics of conventional and Islamic microfinance borrowers. Although there is extensive literature on the …
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The Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of Social and Non-social Risky Decision-Making
Decisions made under risk have been primarily studied within economic contexts (Platt & Huettel, 2008). This has led to the development of sound methods and models for studying risky choice behavior (Rangel, Camerer & Montague, 2008). In particular, these models are helpful for estimating how much …
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Three Essays on the Effect of Overconfidence on Economic Decision Making
… is not significantly correlated with risk preferences, math, strategic behavior, anchoring, altruism, and food choices. In Chapter 2 I use feedback to establish a causal link between overconfidence and trading behavior. Feedback is used to eliminate the possibility for subjects to be …
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Algorithm and mechanism design with nonlinear preferences
… nonlinearities typically arise from different risk preferences, non-rationality, etc. Solving these problems is often computationally hard but can be beneficial by providing more revenue or welfare. In this thesis, I am going to investigate three problems: route planning with a nonlinear …
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