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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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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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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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This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular … combination of traits drawn at random from those represented in the previous generation. Preferences may be altruistic or non … preferences, and the latter by selecting cooperation-inducing rules. The existence of population groups recognizable by outward …
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conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from deontological to strongly consequentialist; the median respondent would support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559615
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763449
from reference-dependent preferences: The absolute subjective value of a deviation from a reference point is generally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703613
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466472
Having an accurate account of preferences help governments design better policies for their citizens, organizations …-assessing and directly stating their preferences (qualitative) and methods that are indirectly inferring such preferences through … preferences and, therefore, survey designers often include both quantitative and qualitative items. An important methodological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377246
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
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