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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Time Preferences"”.
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Bridging Time Preferences and Social Preferences
… immense volume of research has been conducted on time preferences and social preferences, limited studies have investigated whether there is any interaction and/or trade-off between these two important preferences in human decision-making. In this work, we fill this literature gap by investigating …
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Service behaviors and time preferences of rural and urban restaurant customers
… on standard restaurant wait staff behaviors and time standards may be critical to earning customers satisfaction and patronage, yet few studies have empirically examined this. Developing enhanced ways of understanding how to adapt service delivery behavior to the values of major cultural groups …
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The FII Model as an Investment in Patience: Exploring Time Preferences in Medellin, Colombia
… explores the merits of a change in subjects’ time preferences as a mechanism explaining the changes in behavior caused by participation in the FII program. The subjects’ time preferences were measured via survey using a combination of the binary choice and fill-in-the-blank methods on three …
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Why Risk It? The Effect of Risk and Time Preferences on Microfinance Loan Default
… in their level of risk preference and time preference. This is tested</p> <p>through an artefactual field experiment with 97 borrowers from the National</p> <p>Microfinance Bank of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. In the experiment,</p> <p>participants chose between six choices that …
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Analysing Risk Preferences and Time Preferences with respect to Smoking Status and Smoking Intensity
… 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 is …
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The impact of risk and time preferences on smoking behaviour in the context of a contingency management programme
… 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 CM …
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Essays on Decisions Involving Recurring Financial Events
… decisions with consequences that recur over time, such as mortgages and recurring payment plans in contracts. This dissertation investigates two questions: (1) How do individual differences in intertemporal preferences influence how consumers think about recurring financial events? (2) How …
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Food security in India
… that accounts for heterogeneity in risk and time preferences, and apply this method to Indian village data. While there is substantial and significant heterogeneity in estimated risk and time preferences, full risk sharing is rejected for both cases - with and without heterogeneity. Estimated …
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Stress and decision-making in a Developing world context
… gauges the effect of physiological stress on time preference in the urban poor from informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya. Using a standardized psychosocial stress challenge (the Trier social stress test (TSST)) to induce stress in a randomized setting, we attempt to estimate the effect of …
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The economics of addiction: an experimental investigation
… economic studies eliciting and comparing the preferences – specifically, risk and time preferences – that economic theory suggests may differ between addicts and non-addicts. The experimental research that has been conducted has been dominated by psychologists, and some economists have begun …
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Long Term Policy Goals Under Electoral Competition Given Varied Temporal Discount Rates Among Voters
… frequent elections are held accountable to voter preferences, where voters tend to be myopic, making investment difficult. Further, the costs and benefits of an investment are often distributed unevenly across voters. Thus investments take a two dimensional shape, creating both cross-sectional and …
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Essays on development economics
… the design of incentives should vary with the time preferences of agents. We formulate predictions for two incentive contract variations that should increase efficacy for myopic agents relative to patient ones: increasing the frequency of incentive payments, and making the contract "dynamically …
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Essays on Physiological and Psychological Influences of Economic Preferences
… processing rather than fundamentally different preferences. The dissertation contributes both empirical findings and a methodological framework for rigorously separating preference shifts from changes in choice quality, with implications for behavioral economics, decision research, and the …
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Proximity Navigation for Map-Based Interfaces: Generalizing Menu Design for Multiple Dimensions
… effectiveness of design guidelines on response time, preferences, and navigation and task accuracy. Results showed relationships exist among navigation and task accuracy, response time, and preferences within simple or compound tasks. However, few relationships exist between simple and compound …
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Experimental and self-reported measures of impulsivity: A reconsideration
… we consider how a risk preference task and a time preference task are related to the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale-11 (BIS-11). We conduct joint maximum likelihood estimation to estimate discounting and risk preference parameters, and compare them to the BIS-11 total score and subscales. Our …
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Essays on the Family Economics and Gender
… Chapter 1 analyzes the effect of off-school time use of children on achievement outcomes using unique data on children age 8-12. The data contain detailed information on children's characteristics, including cognitive and non-cognitive skills and social preferences, as well as parents' and …
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Essays on Behavioral Economics and Sophisticated Procrastination
… Study 2 identified diverse patterns of deadline preferences: while many participants actively avoided the latest possible deadline, their hesitation to commit to any specific deadline suggests a deeper tension rooted in uncertainty or discomfort with commitment. These findings provide early …
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Essays on Health Economics
… processes: subjective expectation bias and time-inconsistent preferences. In Chapter I, I look at how individuals' own subjective expectations about certain future events are different from what actually happens in the future, even after controlling for individuals' private information. This …
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Essays on impact of risk preference on health and occupational choice
… marginal utility. Given heterogeneous risk and time preferences of individuals, this study investigates the impact of those preferences on sorting into occupations and industries using various measures of job risk. I construct three measures of risk across jobs, cross-categorized by occupation …
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Essays of Political and Cultural Institutions
… shaping microeconomic preferences at the individual level. I adopt the “priming” method from social psychology to exogenously vary the salience of individualism and collectivism in laboratory settings. The findings indicate that subjects primed on collectivism make less …
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