Everyday Decision Making: A Theoretical and Empirical Study

Danilowicz-Gösele, Kamila

dc.contributor.advisor	Schwager, Robert Prof. Dr.
dc.contributor.author	Danilowicz-Gösele, Kamila
dc.date.accessioned	2017-04-24T08:49:08Z
dc.date.available	2017-04-24T08:49:08Z
dc.date.issued	2017-04-24
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-0023-3E21-5
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-6253
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-6253
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject.ddc	330	de
dc.title	Everyday Decision Making: A Theoretical and Empirical Study	de
dc.type	doctoralThesis	de
dc.contributor.referee	Schwager, Robert Prof. Dr.
dc.date.examination	2016-12-19
dc.description.abstracteng	The thesis „Everyday Decision Making: A Theoretical and Empirical Study“ analyzes the individuals' decision-making and the role of institutions in creating incentives and influencing individuals' choices. The first part is descriptive and theoretical and deeply rooted in behavioral public economics. It aims at understanding how people make decisions and the factors that affect their decision-making process. Therefore, Chapter 2 provides a critical discussion on the validity of the neoclassical rationality paradigm as a normative standard and discusses the need of the alternative, behavioral approach to bounded irrationality. Chapter 3 examines individuals' behavior regarding healthy good consumption by conducting a theoretical analysis of government's intervention in the decision-making of individuals with self-control problems. The second part of this thesis provides an empirical analysis of higher education and is at the heart of research in economics of education. It focuses on the interaction between individuals' characteristics and choices that determine their performance within a given institutional framework, namely university. Chapter 4 examines individual and institutional factors, e.g. the high school leaving grade or the chosen field of study, as determinants of students' academic performance at university. Chapter 5 empirically analyzes professors' effect from a fundamental first-year course in Economics on students' later performance in follow-on courses. It focuses on the differences in grading policies between different professors assigned to the same mandatory course.	de
dc.contributor.coReferee	Baskaran, Thushyanthan Prof. Dr.
dc.subject.eng	behavioral economics	de
dc.subject.eng	time-inconsistent preferences	de
dc.subject.eng	self-control problems	de
dc.subject.eng	paternalism	de
dc.subject.eng	subsidies	de
dc.subject.eng	academic performance	de
dc.subject.eng	higher education	de
dc.subject.eng	grade point average	de
dc.subject.eng	faculties	de
dc.subject.eng	professor's effect	de
dc.subject.eng	grade inflation	de
dc.subject.eng	grades	de
dc.subject.eng	bounded rationality	de
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:gbv:7-11858/00-1735-0000-0023-3E21-5-2
dc.affiliation.institute	Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät	de
dc.subject.gokfull	Wirtschaftswissenschaften (PPN621567140)	de
dc.identifier.ppn	884843769

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