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Social norms, morals and self-interest as determinants of pro-environment behaviours: the case of household recycling. [PDF]
, 2017 This paper considers the role which selfish, moral and social incentives and pressures play in explaining the extent to which stated choices over pro-environment behaviours vary across individuals.
Czajkowski, Mikolaj +2 more
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Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 2021 We systematically study the completion of choice problems in the Weihrauch lattice. Choice problems play a pivotal role in Weihrauch complexity. For one, they can be used as landmarks that characterize important equivalences classes in the Weihrauch lattice.
Vasco Brattka, Guido Gherardi
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Acta Oncologica, 2020 We need to make choices on a daily basis in our practice of medical oncology. In regular times, these choices are evidence-based and backed by science. However, during emergency situations like the current COVID pandemic, these choices are not just tougher to make, but come with the added burden of inadequate evidence to base them on.
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Common genetic effects on risk-taking preferences and choices [PDF]
, 2020 Although prior research has shown that risk-taking preferences and choices are correlated across many domains, there is a dearth of research investigating whether these correlations are primarily the result of genetic or environmental factors. We examine
Nicolaou, Nicos, Shane, S.
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Occupational Choices Of The Elderly [PDF]
, 2017 This article compares the separate occupational distributions of U.S. male and female workers who are 45 to 65 with those over 65 (the “elderly”) to test a series of simple conjectures about the different occupational structures of the two age groups ...
Pryor, Frederic L.
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Expanding 'Choice' in School Choice [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 Gale-Shapley's deferred acceptance (henceforth DA) mechanism has emerged as a prominent candidate for placing students to public schools. While DA has desirable fairness and incentive properties, it limits the applicants' abilities to communicate their preference intensities, which entails ex ante inefficiency when ties at school preferences are ...
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila +2 more
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Giving patients choices during involuntary admission : a new intervention [PDF]
, 2019 Background: People who receive involuntary treatment are some of the most vulnerable in psychiatric services. They are more likely to have poorer social and clinical outcomes and to be disillusioned with and disengaged from care.
Burn, Erin +3 more
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Envelope Theorems for Non-Smooth and Non-Concave Optimization [PDF]
, 2012 We study general dynamic programming problems with continuous and discrete choices and general constraints. The value functions may have kinks arising (1) at indifference points between discrete choices and (2) at constraint boundaries.
Clausen, Andrew, Strub, Carlo
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Location Choice, Portfolio Choice [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016 Households hold under-diversified stock portfolios concentrated in firms headquartered near the city where they reside. Theories for this local-bias puzzle assign a causal role for proximity, be it generating an informational advantage or a familiarity bias. These explanations assume that households locate randomly.
Ioannis Branikas +2 more
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On choice, preference, and preference for choice. [PDF]
The Behavior Analyst Today, 2006 In this paper, we examine several common everyday meanings of choice, propose behavioral definitions of choice, choosing, and preference, and recommend ways for behavioral researchers to talk consistently about these concepts. We also examine the kinds of performance in the contexts of various procedures that might be appropriately described as a ...
Toby L, Martin +3 more
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