Searching for Reference Point: the Case of Terminalli Ill Patients

Student: Chernysheva Anna

Faculty: International College of Economics and Finance

Educational Programme: Double degree programme in Economics of the NRU HSE and the University of London (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2018

The main focus of this paper is to explore how a severity of condition affects the lifestyle of terminally ill patients. It is assumed that people in a relatively poor state would be overly-pessimistic about their prospects and life in general, while people in a relatively fine state would be overly-optimistic.

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