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Rational inattention in macroeconomics
In many markets, acquiring and processing the information needed to make optimal decisions costs agents time, effort, and/or money. This thesis is concerned with the macroeconomic implications of the way households behave in the face of these costs, which is known as rational inattention. The thesis consists of three self-contained chapters.
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ABSTRACT Healthcare in the United States is defined by profit motives and economic inequality, yet medical providers and organizations are also guided by moral values such as a commitment to patient well‐being. How have sociologists made sense of this apparent contradiction?
Guillermina Altomonte, Eliza Brown
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“I Wish I Had Better Answers”: Organizational Ignorance in US Criminal Courts
ABSTRACT Systems of monetary sanctions in US criminal courts present an opportunity for furthering the sociological understanding of complex and consequential organizations. We examine whether and how court actors across eight states understand the organizational processes supporting the fiscal logic of legal financial obligations (LFOs).
Sarah K. S. Shannon +3 more
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Applied Linguistics, sociolinguistics and world Englishes
Abstract The world Englishes perspective, especially as expressed within Kachru's formulation of the Inner, Outer and Expanding Circles of Englishes, provides a flexible and coherent model of the historical spread of English. While the model has had a profound influence on various subfields of applied linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics ...
Andrew Moody
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Anchoring Bias in the Tradeoff Procedure Within Multi‐Attribute Value Theory
ABSTRACT Eliciting the weights of attributes is a key step in multi‐attribute decision‐making methods. The weights usually represent the relative importance of the attributes or the tradeoffs among them in forming a decision. Various weight elicitation methods exist, each based on different assumptions and procedures.
Geqie Sun, Maarten Kroesen, Jafar Rezaei
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UK Forecasts of Annual GDP: Their Accuracy and the Information Categories Underlying Their Revisions
ABSTRACT Policy makers are concerned with the accuracy of GDP forecasts and want to understand the reasons for the revision of forecasts. We study these issues by examining forecasts of annual UK GDP growth by a panel of agents, published monthly by HM Treasury. We focus on two main issues: the developing accuracy of the group‐mean forecast as horizons
Nigel Meade, Ciaran Driver
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Rational inattention with multiple attributes
David Walker-Jones
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ABSTRACT Aim Investigate the prevalence of persistent regulatory problems (RPs) in children aged 3–18 months from an immigrant, low‐resource population, and assess how these develop and may coexist with other early neurodevelopmental and medical conditions in toddlers. Methods Health service–detected prevalence was estimated using retrospective medical
E. Carlsson +5 more
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Socially oriented attention in young children with neurofibromatosis type 1: An eye‐tracking study
Plain language summary: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dmcn.70050 Abstract Aim To examine visual engagement to social stimuli and response to joint attention in young children with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and typically developing peers (controls). Method Forty‐five preschool children were studied cross‐sectionally (mean age [SD] = 4
Kristina M. Haebich +6 more
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The Devil You Know: Rational Inattention to Discrete Choices When Prior Information Matters
Bruno Pellegrino
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