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Climate Risk ManagementChanging climate poses significant challenges for smallholder rice farmers. Weather-related deviations from longer-term patterns and crop losses due to abiotic hazards can affect farmer risk preferences and drive adaptive responses. In addition, farmers’
W. Parker Wheatley +3 more
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Exotic Preferences for Macroeconomists [PDF]
We provide a user's guide to exotic' preferences: nonlinear time aggregators, departures from expected utility, preferences over time with known and unknown probabilities, risk-sensitive and robust control, hyperbolic' discounting, and preferences over ...
Bryan Routledge +2 more
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Optimal economic growth with recursive preferences: decreasing rate of time preference
Económica, 1999 In the field of optimal growth theory, since Ramsey's time it is frequent to maximize a welfare function consisting of the discounted sum of instantaneous utilities, with a constant rate of time preferencie.
Rolf R. Mantel
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Time Preferences and Job Search: Evidence from France [PDF]
Increasing impatience reduces search efforts of unemployed job seekers and therefore decreases the exit rate from unemployment. Also, impatience reduces reservation wage and increases the exit rate.
Bassem Ben Halima, Mohamed Ben Halima
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HeliyonSustainable agricultural practices such as conservation agriculture have been promoted in southern Africa for nearly three decades, but their adoption remains low.
Esau Simutowe +8 more
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Topological complexity of manifolds of preferences [PDF]
The problem of endowing preferences with manifold structures emerged from discussions with Gerard Debreu in 1975 . Time has shown that such structures can be useful in understanding the behavior of economic systems .
Chichilnisky, Graciela
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What do Iranians value most when choosing a hospital? Evidence from a discrete choice experiment.
PLoS ONEBackgroundIndividual preferences have preceded the use of health care services, and it has been affected by different hospital attributes. This study aimed to elicit the Iranians' preferences in choosing hospitals using a discrete choice experiment ...
Mohammad Ranjbar +4 more
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Time preferences and their life outcome correlates: Evidence from a representative survey. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 Horn D, Kiss HJ.
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The Effect of Individual Time Preferences on Smoking Behavior: Insights from Behavioral Economics. [PDF]
Iran J Public Health, 2020 Soofi M, Akbari Sari A, Najafi F.
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Testing the predective validity of the time trade-off and the Stardard Gamble [PDF]
This paper tests the consistency of health utility measurements with individual preferences. We compare three methods, the time trade-off, the standard gamble and a version of the standard gamble that corrects for the deviations from expected utility ...
Han Bleichrodt +2 more
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