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Essays in behavioural and experimental economics: risk and time preference of adolescents
Wang, XuetingPublished 2021There has been increased interest in understanding the economic preferences of adolescents in the last decade. However, the literature is still in its infancy in that we have only an incomplete picture of the economic ...USyd AccessThesis -
Increased risk-taking, not loss tolerance, drives adolescents’ propensity to choose risky prospects more often under peer observation
Tymula, Agnieszka; Wang, XuetingPublished 2021Relative to adults, adolescents make more welfare-decreasing decisions, especially in the presence of peers. The consequences of these decisions result in substantial individual and societal losses in terms of lives lost, ...Open AccessArticle -
Present bias for monetary and dietary rewards
Cheung, Stephen L.; Tymula, Agnieszka; Wang, XuetingPublished 2022Economists model self-control problems through time-inconsistent preferences. Empirical tests of these preferences largely rely on experimental elicitation using monetary rewards, with several recent studies failing to ...Article
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