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Many individuals have empathetic feelings towards animals but frequently consume meat. We investigate this "meat … form self-serving beliefs about the suffering of animals caused by meat consumption in order to alleviate the guilt … relationship between individuals' taste for meat and their propensity to engage in self-deception, a high price elasticity of …

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Stated and revealed heterogeneous risk preferences in educational choice

Fossen, Frank M.; Glocker, Daniela - 2014

Stated survey measures of risk preferences are increasingly being used in the literature, and they have been compared to revealed risk aversion primarily by means of experiments such as lottery choice tasks. In this paper, we investigate educational choice, which involves the comparison of risky...

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The demand for voluntary carbon sequestration : experimental evidence from a reforestation project in Germany

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Tax-price elasticity of charitable donations : evidence from the German taxpayer panel

Adena, Maja - 2014

I estimate permanent and transitory tax-price and income elasticity of charitable giving in Germany using a rich panel data of tax return for the years 2001-2006. Income tax reforms were implemented in 2004 and 2005. The results suggest that the permanent tax-price elasticity varies...

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