Do Transaction Costs and Risk Preferences Influence Marketing Arrangements in the Illinois Hog Industry? [PDF]
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2009 Risk reduction and transaction costs are often used to explain contracting in the U.S. hog industry with little empirical support. Using a unified conceptual framework that draws from risk behavior and transaction cost theories, in combination with ...
Jason R.V. Franken +2 more
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To punish first and reward second: Values determine how reward and punishment affect risk-taking behavior [PDF]
, 2017 The current study investigated whether manipulating participants’ pre-exposure to reward and punishment affects the extent to which sensation seeking and values predict risk-taking behavior.
Athota, V Sagar +2 more
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Risk-specific search for risk-defusing operators [PDF]
, 2008 According to the concept of “active risk-defusing behavior”, decision makers in risky situations look for additional actions that reduce risk and allow them to favor the more risky alternative.
Funke, Joachim +2 more
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Judgment and Decision Making, 2013 Individuals have been shown to adaptively select decision strategies depending on the environment structure. Two experiments extended this research to the group level.
Juliane E. Kämmer +2 more
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Predicting (un)healthy behavior: A comparison of risk-taking propensity measures
Judgment and Decision Making, 2012 We compare four different risk-taking propensity measures on their ability to describe and to predict actual risky behavior in the domain of health.
Helena Szrek +3 more
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Perspectivas teóricas para el análisis de la maternidad adolescente / Theoretical frameworks for analyzing teenage motherhood [PDF]
Barataria, 2019 In this article we review the most relevant and recent scientific literature (Spanish and international ones) focused on early pregnancy and teenage childbearing from both perspectives of medical care and social science.
Ana Lucía Hernández Cordero +2 more
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Depression, Risk Preferences and Risk-Taking Behavior [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019 Depression affects the way that people process information and make decisions, including those involving risk and uncertainty. Our objective is to analyze the way that depressive episodes shape risk preferences and risk-taking behaviors. We are the first to address this issue using large-scale, representative panel data that include both behavioral and
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark +2 more
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Responsibility Effects in Decision Making under Risk [PDF]
, 2010 We systematically explore decision situations in which a decision maker bears responsibility for somebody else's outcomes as well as for her own in situations of payoff equality.
Pahlke, Julius +2 more
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How does gender influence the recognition of cardiovascular risk and adherence to self-care recommendations? : a study in polish primary care [PDF]
, 2013 Background: Studies have shown a correlation between gender and an ability to change lifestyle to reduce the risk of disease. However, the results of these studies are ambiguous, especially where a healthy lifestyle is concerned.
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Positive youth development merits state investment
California Agriculture, 2013 In the last three decades, positive youth development has emerged as the new paradigm for youth-related research and programming. The literature provides strong evidence that high-quality youth programs can have positive and significant effects. Positive
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