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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"time preference"”.
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Essays on Contest Theory Experiments and Revealed Time Preference Models
… empirical method to model perceptual present and time inconsistency (Chapter 4). Chapter 2 examines how the weight and the ordered weights in battles affect the behavior in sequential multi-battle contests with an experiment. We find robustly that the weight of the current battle consistently …
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Why Risk It? The Effect of Risk and Time Preferences on Microfinance Loan Default
… any</p> <p>difference 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 …
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Facing natural hazards: uncertain and intertemporal elements of choosing shore protection along the Great Lakes
… low probability), - when faced with choices over time, individuals have different rates at which they trade off benefits now versus later. Typically, applications of BCA do not account for these observations. The main objective of the study was to determine whether these criticisms are supported, …
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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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Essays on Risk Sharing and Pricing
… setting in which agents differ in risk preference, time preference and/or expectations. It shows that, because of equilibrium risk sharing, the precautionary savings motive in the aggregate can vastly exceed that of even the most prudent actual agent in the economy. Consequently, a low …
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Does Child Sponsorship have a Positive Impact on the Quality of Life and Social Behavior of Sponsored Children? Evidence from Indonesia
… as an instrument for sponsorship, a time preference experiment and a trust game. The study looks specifically at self-esteem, optimism, social trust, educational outcomes, patience and reciprocity of 286 sponsored children and 234 non-sponsored children between the ages of 4 and 23. …
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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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Experimental and self-reported measures of impulsivity: A reconsideration
… data collected in 2012, 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 …
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Essays in Economic *Growth and Asset Pricing
… capita convergence for 15 OECD countries using a time series based test. Our model allows income per capita differentials to exhibit long range dependence, which generalizes the specification in previous studies. Using semi-parametric estimation procedures we find ample evidence of pairwise …
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Theoretical aspects of long-term evaluation in environmental economics
… aspects of long-term evaluation with a focus on time and uncertainty structure. Motivated along the lines of global warming, the analysis renders contributions to the fields of environmental economics, decision theory, the economics of sustainability and cost benefit analysis. The thesis is …
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Existence Impacts of Retirement Saving Programs under Heterogeneous Hyperbolic Agents
… number of empirical and experimental studies of time preference that find discount rates to be much greater in the short-run than in the long-run. This paper studies ex-post effects of a pension reform, in which the public pension system is substituted fully with private saving. The main focus of …
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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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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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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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Outcome valuation in the economic evaluation of healthcare
… which the current framework reflects population preferences, and whether the framework can be adapted to be more reflective of population preferences. The empirical chapters in this thesis consider these issues, using a discrete choice experiment (DCE). For reasons presented in Chapters 3 and 4, …
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Barriers to the adoption and optimal use of savings and health technologies
… savings action in order to manipulate the time path of consumption. This chapter presents a model that formalizes this idea and derives several testable theoretical implications. In particular, households where husbands and wives are well matched in terms of time preference should make …
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Essays on the optimum quantity of money
… proceed at a rate greater than the rate of time preference in a world of uncertainty is not generally true. The second essay derives the optimum quantity of money in a stochastic production economy. The optimum quantity of money literature largely ignores the effect of labor supply on …