Understanding the development and role of norms and preferences: essays in behavioural and applied microeconomics

Thesis

Fundamental to Economics is an understanding of how individuals make decisions when constrained. Individuals must decide over what to consume and how much of it on a daily basis: from which goods to buy to how much to donate to a charity or how much time should be spent in leisure. At the root of all those decisions is the hypothesised utility function and the underlying preferences it represents. These preferences, their stability and their formation, are the focus of this thesis. The fir...

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Authors: Groom, M

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: rationality; behavioural economics; preferences; children; microeconomic behaviour
• Subjects: Economics