E-Dissertationen: Auflistung E-Dissertationen nach Autor "Dohmen, Thomas"
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Determinants of Human Capital Formation
Stans, Renske Adriana (2020-08-25)Human capital is crucial for individuals’ economic prosperity. As such, differences in human capital are largely responsible for existing inequalities within society, making it essential to understand the determinants of ... -
Empirical evidence on the determinants of economic decision-making
Willrodt, Jana (2018-12-18)The first three chapters of this thesis are dedicated to empirically examining factors beyond risk preferences that influence decision-making under risk: psychological states (Chapter 2), character traits (Chapter 3), and ... -
Essays in Applied Econometrics and Behavioral Economics
Deckers, Thomas (2014-10-07)This thesis is divided into four parts. This abstract provides separate previews for each of those four parts.<br /> Cross-section regressions often examine many candidate regressors. We use multiple testing procedures ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Wogrolly, Axel (2021-01-08)The benchmark model of economics, expected utility theory, assumes that individuals manage uncertainty by forming beliefs about all relevant events and that these beliefs satisfy the probability axioms. There is ample scope ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Ananyev, Mikhail (2021-07-19)Two topics are covered in this dissertation. One topic is about individual's contribution decisions in social dilemmas situations (situations, when everyone is better off keeping their endowments for themselves but everybody ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Stumpe, Valentin Lorenz (2022-05-25)The first two chapters of this thesis are connected by an overarching question: Can we use the electricity price to incentivize electricity consumption when it is plentiful and electricity conservation when it is scarce? ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Fang, Ximeng (2022-06-22)This thesis uses experimental and quasi-experimental methods combined with real-world data to explore whether and how we may (or may not) leverage insights from psychology and economics to design simple non-monetary ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Freyer, Timo (2023-10-27)This thesis consists of three essays that study the distribution of individual preferences, how they shape social interactions and translate into collective outcomes, and how they interact with the decision environment to ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics
Neuber, Thomas Erik (2021-08-26)This thesis consists of five chapters that contribute to understanding the consequences, measurement, and origins of heterogeneity in preferences. Underneath this overarching topic, several different threads are weaving ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics
Chen, Si (2020-09-17)This dissertation presents three chapters revolving around the common theme ‘motivated reasoning.’ Motivated reasoning occurs when individuals tradeoff accurate beliefs and desirable beliefs (Bénabou and Tirole, 2016). ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics
Andre, Peter (2022-02-03)This dissertation revolves around two themes: individuals' perceptions of reality and their beliefs about what characterizes a good, fair, and just world. It presents four independent research papers. Chapter 1 ("Shallow ... -
Essays in Labor Economics
Simon, Lenard Paul (2024-02-29)As Western societies age, their working-age populations are declining, resulting in a scarcity of labor. Consequently, these societies face reduced production opportunities while shouldering an increasing burden of elderly ... -
Essays on Preference Formation
Destan, Cavit Görkem (2023-08-17)This dissertation centers on cognitive factors like attention, complexity, motivation, and memory, and their role in explaining individual decision-making processes. The study aims to contribute to this literature by ... -
Four Economic Experiments on Social Preferences
Hofmeier, Jana (2019-10-16)This thesis presents and discusses four different economic experiments investigating the foundations and formation of social preferences. Chapter 1, Chapter 3, and Chapter 4 all take a closer look at prosociality. Prosociality ... -
Four Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Holler, Radost (2023-05-25)Culture -- as defined by the collection of beliefs, norms and preferences shared within social groups -- interacts in complex ways with social and economic outcomes. <br> It, both, shapes the economic and social environment ... -
Four Essays on Economic Preferences
Becker, Anke (2016-08-29)This thesis consists of four independent chapters. Each chapter contributes experimental evidence to our knowledge on economic preferences. Chapter one shows that a preference for truth-telling per se is even more prevalent ... -
Individual Heterogeneities, Social Environment and Life Outcomes
Kosse, Fabian (2015-03-18)Individuals differ not only by gender and hair color, they also exhibit heterogeneities in various probably not fully genetically determined dimensions as personality, preferences and skills. Moreover, individuals live in ... -
On the Formation and Economic Implications of Subjective Beliefs and Individual Preferences
Enke, Benjamin (2016-08-29)The conceptual framework of neoclassical economics posits that individual decision-making processes can be represented as maximization of some objective function. In this framework, people's goals and desires are expressed ...