Prior studies have found that subjects prefer an improving sequence of income over a constant sequence, even if the constant sequence offers a larger present-discounted value. However, little is known about how these preferences vary with the size of the wage payments. In each of four studies, we find a positive relationship between the preference for increasing payments and the size of the pay...

Two main career paths are prevalent among politicians in modern democracies: there are career politicians (i.e., politicians who work in the political sector until retirement), and political careers (i.e., there are politicians who leave politics before retirement and work in the private sector). In this paper, we propose a dynamic equilibrium model of the careers of politicians in an environme...

The purpose of the paper is to examine whether students attending state universities and Jesuit universities possess different levels of love of money and materialism. Students attending marketing classes at two universities in the same region of the U.S. (one state and one Jesuit) were asked to complete a survey containing instruments to measure their love of money and their materialism. The r...

according to commonly believed in imamiyeh' s fiqh, a murder commitment made in haram months would causes an increment in blood money to one third. the increment is called taghlize diyeh, increase of blood money. the increase includes all three kinds of murder commitments, namely intentional, quasi-intentional and unintentional ones, the very meaning written down in islamic puni-shment law...

In a structural time series regression model, binary variables have been used to quantify qualitative or categorical quantitative events such as politic and economic structural breaks, regions, age groups and etc. The use of the binary dummy variables is not reasonable because the effect of an event decreases (increases) gradually over time not at once. The simple and basic idea in this paper i...

background aging often accompanies declines in muscular capabilities that hinder the performance of daily functions. one of the paramount objectives in occupational therapy is preserving clients’ independence through their ability to conduct instrumental daily living activities. objectives the current study aimed to evaluate the validity and reliability of two subscales of the independent livin...