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Recent work suggests that women are more responsive to negative feedback than men in certain environments. We examine whether negative feedback in the form of relatively low grades in major-related classes explains gender differences in the final majors undergraduates choose. We use unique...
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', SWB has recently been compared to 'decision utility' using specific experiments, most often based on stated preferences … factors (health and labor market constraints, 'focusing illusion', aspirations) …
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The economic theory of fertility choice builds predominantly on the unitary model of the household, in which there is a single household utility function and potential intra-household disagreement is abstracted from. Empirical evidence suggests, however, that many (potential) mothers and fathers...
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decision making. Prior research shows that glucose enrichment supports cognition and more recent research has shown it can … improve decision making on some tasks. To test our hypothesis we used a standardized decision inventory and measured response … times. The findings show that supplemental glucose improves decision making but only in complex decision tasks. The findings …
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We examine whether biases identified in the behavioral-economics literature apply in decision-making for others (DMfO …). We conduct a laboratory experiment in which subjects make decision on behalf of themselves and others in eighteen tasks …
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have to be made. The decision-making process can be vulnerable to environmental stressors. Summarizing the growing economic … and epidemiologic evidence linking air pollution, cognition performance and real-world decision making, we first …, and educational attainment. We further extend to a review of real-world decision making that has been found to be affected …
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experiment in a large retail chain. In a 2 × 2 factorial design, we vary: (i) whether store managers obtain access to decision …
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Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...
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The literature on happiness shows that there are many factors that influence a person s happiness. Extending previous studies, we investigate the role of the freedom of choice as a key contributing construct in influencing a person s happiness. We define two hypothetical sub-constructs for the...
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If choices depend on the decision maker's mood, is the attempt to derive any consistency in choice doomed? In this …
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