Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "consumption"
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Dissociation of Neural Regions Associated with Anticipatory Versus Consummatory Phases of Incentive Processing
(Blackwell Publishers, 2008)Incentive delay tasks implicate the striatum and medial frontal cortex in reward processing. However, prior studies delivered more rewards than penalties, possibly leading to unwanted differences in signal-to-noise ratio. ... -
Instantaneous Gratification
(Oxford University Press, 2012)Extending Barro (1999) and Luttmer & Mariotti (2003), we introduce a new model of time preferences: the instantaneous-gratification model. This model applies tractably to a much wider range of settings than existing models. ... -
Moral Hazard versus Liquidity and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
(The University of Chicago Press, 2008)This paper presents new evidence on why unemployment insurance (UI) benefits affect search behavior and develops a simple method of calculating the welfare gains from UI using this evidence. I show that 60 percent of the ... -
Persons and Things in Marseille and Lucca, 1300–1450
(Oxford University Press, 2020-05-07)In later medieval Europe, a rising tide of wealth changed the material regime and, with it, the relationships that defined the matrix of persons and things. Some of our best evidence for the changes afoot in the era can ... -
Race, Social Context, and Consumption: How Race Structures the Consumption Preferences and Practices of Middle and Working-Class Blacks
(2012-11-02)The contemporary experience of race in America demands that blacks become astute observers of their surroundings, required to read subtle social, interactional and environmental cues to determine how to appropriately engage ...