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Decomposing Cross-Country Gaps in Obesity and Overweight: Does the Social Environment Matter?

Costa-Font, Joan; Fabbri, Daniele; Gil, Joan - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2008

in overweight (body mass index BMI - between 25 and 29.9 kg/m2), class 1 (BMI30 kg/m2) and class 2 obesity (BMI35 kg/m2 …-economic and environmental factors on weight gain and obesity. Such issues acquire particular relevance when data from two … Mediterranean countries (Italy and Spain) are compared. Interestingly, the obesity rate was 5 percentage points higher in Spain in …

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Obesity and the Incidence of Chronic Diseases: a Seemingly Unrelated Probit Approach

Font, Joan Costa; Trasfi, Joan Gil - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2005

Western societies can reduce avoidable mortality and morbidity by better understanding the relationship between obesity … and chronic disease. This paper examines the joint determinants of obesity and of heart disease, diabetes, hypertension … significant, although specification-dependent, association between obesity and the prevalence of chronic illness. …

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Loss evasion and tax aversion

Engström, Per; Nordblom, Katarina; Ohlsson, Henry; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

The objective of this paper is to study if taxpayers behave in a loss averse manner when filing their tax returns. This is important for tax design but also for understanding human behavior in general. The predictions of prospect theory can be contrasted to those of expected utility theory. We...

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How much is too much? - An investigation of the effect of the number of choice sets, starting point and the choice of bid vectors in choice experiments

Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

In a split sample design, we examine how the number of choice sets, design of the first choice set (starting point), and the choice of attribute levels in the cost attribute affect the precision in the elicited preferences in otherwise completely identical choice experiment surveys. These issues...

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Deadlines, Procrastination, and Inattention in Charitable Giving: A Field Experiment

Knowles, Stephen; Servátka, Maroš; Sullivan, Trudy - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2015

We conduct a field experiment to analyze the effect of deadline length on charitable giving. Subjects are invited to complete an online survey, with a donation going to charity if they do so. Participants are given either one week, one month or no deadline by which to respond. Donations are...

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Do people avoid opportunities to donate? A natural field experiment on recycling and charitable giving

Knutsson, Mikael; Martinsson, Peter; Wollbrant, Conny - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

We use a natural field experiment to investigate the hypothesis that generosity is partly involuntary, by examining whether individuals tend to avoid opportunities to act generously. In Sweden, new recycling machines for bottles and cans with an option of donating the returned deposit to charity...

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Intertemporal Choice Shifts in Households: Do they occur and are they good?

Carlsson, Fredrik; Yang, Xiaojun - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

We examine whether and to what extent joint choices are more or less patient and time-consistent than individual choices in households. We use data from an artefactual field experiment where both individual and joint time preferences were elicited. We find a substantial shift from individual to...

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Intra-household decisions making on intertemporal choices: An experimental study in rural China

Yang, Xiaojun; Carlsson, Fredrik - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

In this paper, we conduct a high stake experiment in rural China to investigate the determinants of individual and joint decisions regarding intertemporal choices, and estimate the relative influence of spouses on the joint decisions. We use the Convex Time Budget experimental method to elicit...

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Social Information and Charitable Giving: An artefactual field experiment with young children and adolescents

Guzmán, Andrea; Villegas-Palacio, Clara; Wollbrant, Conny - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

A growing literature in economics examines the development of preferences among children and adolescents. We combine a repeated dictator game with treatments that either provides participants with information about the average behavior of others or not. In a sample of 384 children aged 5-17, we...

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Social preferences are stable over long periods of time

Carlsson, Fredrik; Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Pham, Khanh Nam - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

We measure people’s prosocial behavior, in terms of voluntary money and labor time contributions to an archetypical public good, a bridge, and in terms of voluntary money contributions in a public good game, using the same non-student sample in rural Vietnam at four different points in time...

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