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Intention to provide ridesharing services: Determinants from the perspective of driver-partners in a gig economy [PDF]
Problems and Perspectives in Management, 2022 Research on ridesharing platforms under the gig economy has focused much on the incentives and barriers of users, leaving many gaps in understanding drivers’ intention to provide ridesharing services.
Hung Le Van +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 Time preferences are central to human decision making; therefore, a thorough understanding of their international differences is highly relevant. Previous measurements, however, vary widely in their methodology, from questions answered on the Likert ...
Marc Oliver Rieger +2 more
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Cogent Social Sciences, 2023 The Heckman sample selection technique was applied in modelling the households’ maize marketed surplus decision under risk and time preference assumption. We assumed that maize returns depend on farmers’ market selection choices.
Michael Kamoyo, Albert Makochekanwa
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The impact of uncertainty on farmers’ adoption of straw returning technology in Northwest China
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 Straw returning technology has the potential to not only enhance the crop’s nitrogen yield but also protect the ecological environment and enhance crop yield.
Yan Ge, Haixia Wu
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The Time Is Ripe: Thinking about the Future Reduces Unhealthy Eating in Those with a Higher BMI
Foods, 2020 Research suggests that being oriented more towards the future (than the present) is correlated with healthier eating. However, this research tends to be correlational, and thus it is unclear whether inducing people to think about their future could ...
Betty P. I. Chang +2 more
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Preference for increasing wages: How do people value various streams of income? [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2013 Prior studies have found that subjects prefer an improving sequence of income over a constant sequence, even if the constant sequence offers a larger present-discounted value. However, little is known about how these preferences vary with the size of the
Sean Duffy, John Smith
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Domain-specific temporal discounting and temptation [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2010 In this investigation, we test whether temporal discounting is domain-specific (i.e., compared to other people, can an individual have a relatively high discount rate for one type of reward but a relatively low discount rate for another?), and we examine
Eli Tsukayama, Angela Lee Duckworth
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Changes in Time Preference Caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic
East Asian Economic Review, 2023 This paper investigates the relationship between the spread of COVID-19 and time preference. In contrast to previous studies that compared time preferences before and during the pandemic, this study estimates time preferences during the COVID-19 period ...
Inyong Shin
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How to measure time preferences: An experimental comparison of three methods [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2013 In two studies, time preferences for financial gains and losses at delays of up to 50 years were elicited using three different methods: matching, fixed-sequence choice titration, and a dynamic ``staircase'' choice method.
David J. Hardisty +3 more
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Decreasing Impatience for Health Outcomes and Its Relation With Healthy Behavior
Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 2018 There is a growing amount of literature suggesting people tend to behave inconsistently over time, which is driven by decreasing impatience. In addition, many studies have found relations between discounting estimates from experiments and field behavior,
Arthur E. Attema, Stefan A. Lipman
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