Essays about: "Intertemporal choice"
Found 5 essays containing the words Intertemporal choice.
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1. Time preferences and community-based conservation: Insights from elephant patrolling efforts in Aras Napal, Indonesia
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : This study took place in an Indonesian village in Aras Napal, North Sumatra, which previously has been involved in an elephant patrolling conservation program to mitigate human-elephant conflicts and protect the neighboring Leuser National Park. The study examines the villager’s individual and social time preferences, particularly comparing those who were actively involved in the elephant patrolling unit and those who were not. READ MORE
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2. Nudging people off of the couch. A nudge experiment on physical exercise in collaboration with SATS.
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : In this paper we demonstrate that it is possible to increase average weekly exercise frequency by up to 9.45%, by sending the study participants e-mails. Several of the leading causes of death globally are closely linked to physical inactivity. In fact, more people die from coronary heart disease than from starvation every year. READ MORE
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3. The Hazard of Tanning : Intertemporal Choices, Social Status, and Corrective Policy
University essay from Umeå universitet/NationalekonomiAbstract : Skin cancer is the most rapidly increasing cancer form today, our changed tanning behavior is often argued to be the main source of this development. Today a tanned skin is often associated with good health and status. READ MORE
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4. The Art of Measurement - Exogenous Activation of Self-Control with Simple Verbal Sentences in Intertemporal Choice
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistikAbstract : Recent neurological studies have found first causal evidence for a neural self-control mechanism in decision-making in intertemporal choice (e.g. Hare et al. 2009, 2011 & 2014, Figner et al. READ MORE
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5. Well begun is half done - A study about procrastination
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledningAbstract : While a considerable amount of research has been made on the discounting of future rewards, this thesis seeks to improve our knowledge of how people discount arduous tasks. Reward discounting has traditionally been modeled geometrically with the discounted utility model but has lately come into question by scientist favoring the hyperbolic model. READ MORE
