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Anticipated benefit termination and health care consumption responses: Evidence from a Quasi-experiment 预期福利终止与医疗消费反应：来自准实验的证据

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2024-09-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106734

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Why is belief–action consistency so low? The role of belief uncertainty 为什么信念与行动的一致性如此之低？信念不确定性的作用

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2024-09-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106722

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Strategy assortativity and the evolution of parochialism 战略同类性和狭隘性的演变

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2024-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106692

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Echoes of the past: The enduring impact of communism on contemporary freedom of speech values 过去的回声：共产主义对当代言论自由价值观的持久影响

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2024-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106739

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Solving conflict over common pool resources through delegation to a stakeholder 通过向利益相关者授权，解决共同资源的冲突

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106702

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Domain-dependent diversification: The influence of gain–loss domain on correlation choice 依赖领域的多样化：收益-损失领域对相关性选择的影响

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106681

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The price of fairness: Experimental evidence on the limits to demand for redistribution 公平的代价：关于再分配需求限制的实验证据

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106737

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Pre-commitment in bargaining with endogenous credibility 具有内生可信度的讨价还价中的预先承诺

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106714

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Conflict and returns to scale in production 生产中的冲突和规模收益

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2024-09-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106735

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The effect of SMS reminders on health screening uptake: A randomized experiment in Indonesia 短信提醒对接受健康检查的影响：印度尼西亚的随机试验

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2024-09-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106715

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