Gibt es einen Kauf-Knopf im Gehirn des Konsumenten? Und wenn ja, wie betätigt man diesen? Die Antwort aus der Hirnforschung lautet "Nein, einen solchen Knopf gibt es nicht". Zwar haben Neurowissenschaftler in den letzten Jahren wichtige Erkenntnisse über das menschliche Gehirn und dessen...

Lecture audiences and students were asked to respond to virtual decision and game situations at gametheory.tau.ac.il. Several thousand observations were collected and the response time for each answer was recorded. There were significant differences in response time across responses. It is...

Lecture audiences and students were asked to respond to virtual decision and game situations at gametheory.tau.ac.il. Several thousand observations were collected and the response time for each answer was recorded. There were significant differences in response time across responses. It is...

We investigate the importance of subjective expectations of returns to and effort costs of the two main investments that mothers make in newborns: breastfeeding and stimulation. We find heterogeneity across mothers in expected effort costs and expected returns for outcomes in the cognitive,...

Die vorliegende Masterarbeit untersucht den Lernprozess weißer Personen in ihrer Auseinandersetzung mit Rassismus und Weißsein anhand elf qualitativer Interviews und einer schriftlichen Reflexion von weißen Personen, die sich unterschiedlich intensiv antirassistisch engagieren. Besonderes...

Using life-history survey data from eleven European countries, we investigate whether childhood conditions, such as socioeconomic status, cognitive abilities and health problems influence portfolio choice and risk attitudes later in life. After controlling for the corresponding conditions in...

The theoretical literature identifies three important entrepreneurial dimensions, namely discovering new opportunities, responsiveness to uncertainty, and coordination of a firm. In the empirical literature, past experience has been identified as having an important influence on organizational...

Dimensions of cognitive skills are potentially important but often neglected determinants of the central economic outcomes that shape overall well-being over the life course. There exists enormous variation among households in their rates of wealth accumulation, their holdings of financial...