Sökning: "household decision-making"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 42 avhandlingar innehållade orden household decision-making.
1. Economic and Intergenerational Decision-Making in Families
Sammanfattning : This thesis studies economic decision-making and preferences within the family, household and close social environment. Within these social units, individuals often make decisions on the use and allocation of resources that involve multiple generations, such as educational investments, bequests or other transfers. LÄS MER
2. Risk, Relative Standing and Property Rights: Rural Household Decision-Making in China
Sammanfattning : Paper 1 examines the concern for relative standing among rural households in China. We used a survey-experimental method to measure to what extent poor Chinese farmers care about their relative income and found that the respondents cared to a high degree. LÄS MER
3. The household decision making process in replacement of durable goods
Sammanfattning : As durables are essential in many households, the level of ownership is high and, due to the high degree of penetration, a vast proportion of the current sales are replacement purchases. Even though a lot of research attention has been paid to decision making and decision processes many models are oriented towards non-durable goods and although a majority of purchases of many durable goods are replacements, few studies seem to make a distinction between a replacement purchase decision and a decision to buy an item for the first time. LÄS MER
4. Essays on Conflict, Gender and Household-Decision Making
Sammanfattning : This Ph.D. thesis in Economics consists of five self-contained chapters on various topics in Development and Behavioral Economics.Preparing for genocide: Quasi-experimental evidence from Rwanda examines if a mandatory community program contributed to fostering acceptance and participation in the ethnic violence during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. LÄS MER
5. Explainable and Interpretable Decision-Making for Robotic Tasks
Sammanfattning : Future generations of robots, such as service robots that support humans with household tasks, will be a pervasive part of our daily lives. The human's ability to understand the decision-making process of robots is thereby considered to be crucial for establishing trust-based and efficient interactions between humans and robots. LÄS MER