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This paper aims to contribute to a more comprehensive and balanced analysis of development practice. It does so by raising a neglected issue, in a perspective that explicitly targets the complexity of interaction in development. Based on a review of seminal contributions to Anthropology of...
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We examine how disadvantaged students make postsecondary education decisions, focusing on why they often opt for short … disadvantaged Black youth in Baltimore. We use these data to develop and explore a complementary narrative: students who have faced …
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This paper analyzes a boundedly rational decision maker who is uncertain about his preference and faces the following …-off there is an optimal number of goods that the decision maker wants to analyze before making his final choice. The choice of … with good consumer service can be a signal for high quality of the store. -- Decision making ; Bounded rationality ; Choice …
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In a simple conceptual framework, we organize a multitude of phenomena related to the (mis)prediction of utility. Consequences in terms of distorted choices and lower wellbeing emerge if people have to trade-off between alternatives that are characterized by attributes satisfying extrinsic...
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In a simple conceptual framework, we organize a multitude of phenomena related to the (mis)prediction of utility. Consequences in terms of distorted choices and lower wellbeing emerge if people have to trade-off between alternatives that are characterized by attributes satisfying extrinsic...
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I experimentally examine whether feedback about others' choices provides an anchor for decision-making under ambiguity …
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