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PLoS ONE, 2021 To reduce the spread of COVID-19 transmission, government agencies in the United States (US) recommended precautionary guidelines, including wearing masks and social distancing to encourage the prevention of the disease.
Kaileigh A Byrne +4 more
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Pooling Expert Opinion on Environmental Discounting: An International Delphi Survey
Conservation & Society, 2016 The primary aim of this study is to examine the various issues involved in environmental discounting using a Delphi survey of a worldwide panel drawn from specialists in issues relating to discounting and long-term investment evaluation.
José Martínez-Paz +3 more
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Social Determinants of Delayed Gratification Among American Children
Caspian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 2020 Background: A wide array of Socioeconomic Status (SES) indicators show differential effects for the members of diverse social groups. Researchers know a little about the ethnic variation and the effects of family income on delay discounting which is the ...
Shervin Assari
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Heliyon, 2023 Substance use disorders (SUD) have been related to high criminal justice costs, expensive healthcare, social impairment, and decision-making deficits. In non-social decision-making tasks, people with SUD tend to take more risks and choose small immediate
Laurent Avila-Chauvet +3 more
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Service provider difficulties in operationalising coercive control [PDF]
, 2019 We examined perspectives of social workers, police officers, and specialist domestic abuse practitioners about their perceived ability and organizational readiness to respond effectively to incidents of coercive and controlling behavior.
Brennan, Iain R. +3 more
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The Role of Discounting in Energy Policy Investments
Energies, 2021 For informing future energy policy decisions, it is essential to choose the correct social discount rate (SDR) for ex-ante economic evaluations. Generally, costs and benefits—both economic and environmental—are weighted through a single constant discount
Gabriella Maselli, Antonio Nesticò
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The social contagion of temporal discounting in small social networks
Cognitive Research, 2021 Decisions often require a tradeoff between immediate and long-term gratification. How individuals resolve such tradeoffs reflects constructs such as temporal discounting, the degree that individuals devalue delayed rewards. Recent research has started to
Michael T. Bixter, Christian C. Luhmann
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Inequality and Social Discounting [PDF]
Journal of Political Economy, 2007 We explore steady‐state inequality in an intergenerational model with altruistically linked individuals who experience privately observed taste shocks. When the welfare function depends only on the initial generation, efficiency requires immiseration: inequality grows without bound and everyone’s consumption converges to zero.
Werning, Ivan, Farhi, Emmanuel
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Rational social distancing in epidemics with uncertain vaccination timing.
PLoS ONE, 2023 During epidemics people may reduce their social and economic activity to lower their risk of infection. Such social distancing strategies will depend on information about the course of the epidemic but also on when they expect the epidemic to end, for ...
Simon K Schnyder +3 more
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Discounting environmental effects in project appraisal [PDF]
, 2002 The aim of this paper is to present an alternative methodology for discounting far distant future externalities genereted by an investment project: time-declining discount rates.
Percoco, Marco
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