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An axiomatic approach to sustainable development [PDF]

The paper proposes two axioms that capture the idea of sustainable development and derives the welfare criterion that they imply. The axioms require that neither the present nor the future should play a dictatorial role.
Chichilnisky, Graciela
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Testable Implications of Exponential Discounting [PDF]

, 2013
We develop a behavioral axiomatic characterization of exponentially discounted utility (EDU) over consumption streams. Given is an individual agent's behavior in the market: assume a finite collection of purchases across periods.
Echenique, Federico, Saito, Kota
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‘I Don't Babysit’: Stay‐at‐Home Dads' Perspectives and Experiences Within Australian Society

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Stay‐at‐home‐dads are an emerging group in Australia, impacted by societal assumptions and expectations. However, there is a scarcity of research on the perspectives and experiences of fathers assuming stay‐at‐home dad roles within Australian society.
Elyse Manie, Patricia Taylor, Hayley McKenzie, Norma Barrett   +3 more
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Measuring time preferences [PDF]

, 2019
We review research that measures time preferences—i.e., preferences over intertemporal tradeoffs. We distinguish between studies using financial flows, which we call “money earlier or later” (MEL) decisions and studies that use time-dated consumption ...
Cohen, Jonathan D., Ericson, Keith, Laibson, David, White, John Miles   +3 more
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Incentivizing Exploration with Heterogeneous Value of Money

, 2015
Recently, Frazier et al. proposed a natural model for crowdsourced exploration of different a priori unknown options: a principal is interested in the long-term welfare of a population of agents who arrive one by one in a multi-armed bandit setting ...
A Slivkins, HE Robbins, JC Gittins, JC Gittins, M Spence, Michael N. Katehakis, P Auer, P Whittle, S Boyd, TL Lai   +9 more
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Altruism and egoism: Measurable by utility discount rates? [PDF]

, 2000
Altruism and egoism: measurable by utility discount rates?
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Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop, Alysoun Boyle, Tania Sourdin, Bin Li   +3 more
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Stochastic impulse control with discounted and ergodic optimization criteria: A comparative study for the control of risky holdings [PDF]

We consider a single-asset investment fund that in the absence of transactions costs would hold a constant amount of wealth in the risky asset. In the presence of market frictions wealth is allowed to fluctuate within a control band: Its upper (lower ...
Anastasios Xepapadeas, Yiannis Kamarianakis   +1 more
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Indexical utility: another rationalization of exponential discounting

Economics and Philosophy
AbstractThis paper is about time preferences, the phenomenon that the very same things are usually considered the less valuable the farther in the future they are obtained. The utilities of those things are discounted at a certain rate. The paper presents a novel normative argument for exponential discount rates, whatever their empirical adequacy.
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Individualized Treatment in Distal and Medium Vessel Occlusion Stroke Using a Validated Explainable Counterfactual Treatment Estimation Model

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective The optimal treatment for distal medium vessel occlusion (DMVO) stroke remains uncertain, and evidence comparing endovascular therapy (EVT) with medical management (MM) is limited. We aimed to develop and validate a predictive modeling tool to assess individual treatment benefit in DMVO stroke using explainable counterfactual treatment ...
Mohamed F. Doheim, Mahmoud H. Mohammaden, Hend Abdelhamid, Marta Olive‐Gadea, Marc Rodrigo‐Gisbert, Manuel Requena, Johanna T. Fifi, James E. Siegler, Santiago Ortega‐Gutierrez, Mohamad Abdalkader, Ali Alaraj, Wei Hu, Thanh N. Nguyen, Diogo C. Haussen, Raul G. Nogueira   +14 more
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