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-environmental preferences. Our results indicate that support for the carbon tax is more elastic to information on its redistributive aspect …
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Price surges often generate social disapproval and requests for regulation and price controls, but these interventions may cause inefficiencies and shortages. To study how individuals perceive and reason about sudden price increases for different products under different policy regimes, we...
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We provide a framework to disentangle preferences and beliefs in health behavior and apply it to lockdown compliance in … preferences and beliefs explain compliance differences by gender, only preferences drive differences by vulnerability. When others … vulnerables more. When a public figure breaches the rules, opponents comply less. Heterogenous beliefs, preferences, and responses …
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religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual preferences …
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This research estimates models of the importance of conscientiousness for socio-economic outcomes. We use measures of conscientiousness at age 16 to explain adult wages and other outcomes, such as crime, health and savings behaviour. We use several waves from the 1970 British Cohort Study. Our...
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from reference-dependent preferences: The absolute subjective value of a deviation from a reference point is generally …
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primitives such as preferences and beliefs. I review strong biological and behavioral evidence indicating that trusting is not … just a special case of risk-taking, but based on important forms of social preferences such as betrayal aversion … preferences and beliefs, and it suggests ways to examine and interpret a causal role of trust. …
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This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach. The epidemiological approach studies the variation in outcomes across different immigrant groups residing in the same country. Immigrants presumably differ in their cultures but share...
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willing to participate in training. This lesser willingness to participate in training is driven by economic preferences …
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The standard assumption in economic theory is that preferences are stable. In particular, they are not changed as a … (providing evidence) that preferences are constantly changing when experience is accumulated. This paper tests the effect of … experience on preferences for attributes of health-care events. We are using two very different samples and a methodology that …
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