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Appearance Reveals Music Preferences
Disclosing idiosyncratic preferences can help to broker new social interactions. For instance, strangers exchange music preferences to signal their identities, values, and preferences. Recognizing that people’s physical appearances guide their decisions about social engagement, we examined whether cues to people’s music preferences in their physical ...
Laura Tian +2 more
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Background In patient choice, patients are expected to select the provider that best fits their preferences. In this study, we assess to what extent the hospital choice of patients in practice corresponds with their preferred choice.
Benjamin H. Salampessy +3 more
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Options for possible changes to the blood donation service: health economics modelling
Background: Evidence is required on the cost-effectiveness of alternative changes to the blood collection service. Objectives: (1) To estimate the cost-effectiveness of alternative minimum interdonation intervals between whole-blood donations.
Richard Grieve +14 more
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Learning Economic Parameters from Revealed Preferences [PDF]
A recent line of work, starting with Beigman and Vohra (2006) and Zadimoghaddam and Roth (2012), has addressed the problem of {\em learning} a utility function from revealed preference data.
A. Mas-Colell +13 more
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An important consideration in managing fire-prone forests is the intertemporal impacts of forest fires. This analysis examines these impacts in a forest recreation setting by fitting a combined stated and revealed data set to explicitly model the effects
Peter C. Boxall, Jeffrey E. Englin
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Depth and temperature preferences of meagre, Argyrosomus regius, as revealed by satellite telemetry
Argyrosomus regius (commonly referred to as meagre), is one of Europe's largest coastal bony fish species and supports important recreational and commercial fisheries in the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts.
Alexander Claus Winkler +6 more
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In the last few decades, the interest of consumers towards sustainable agri-food products has been growing. This trend reflects changes in the consumption patterns, which have been deeply influenced by the increased sensitivity concerning social and ...
Lucio CECCHINI +2 more
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How Revealing is Revealed Preference? [PDF]
This lecture address the following two key criticisms of the empirical application of revealed preference theory: When the RP conditions do not reject, they do not provide precise predictions; and when they do reject, they do not help characterize the nature of irrationality or the degree/direction of changing tastes.
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Revealed Preference and Aggregation [PDF]
This paper studies conditions under which aggregate demand behavior will satisfy the usual revealed preference axioms. Assuming a fixed distribution of income and the hypothesis that individual demand is homogeneous in income, it is shown that the weak axiom of revealed preference or the congruence axiom will hold in the aggregate if each individual ...
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Recreation and tourism are important ways that people interact with and derive benefits from natural environments. Understanding how and where nature provides recreational opportunities and benefits is necessary for management decisions that impact the ...
David M. Fisher +3 more
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