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This study analyses the relation between perceived health status and intertemporal choice. We use data from experiments with real monetary rewards conduEted among students in South Africa to estimate risk and time preferences. These experimental data, based on muitiple price lists developed by...
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Most evidence of hyperbolic discounting is based on violations of either stationarity or time consistency as observed … discounting is a plausible explanation for choice reversals only if violations of stationarity and time consistency overlap. Our … field experiment examines the extent to which this is the case. At different points in time, the same participants allocated …
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preference reversals arecommonly interpreted as contradicting constant discounting. This interpretation is correctonly if … baseline consumption to which the outcomes are added, remains constant over time.The difficulty with measuring discounting when … discounted. In this paper we propose a way to disentangle thetwo effects, which allows us to draw conclusions about discounting …
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We propose a simple method for eliciting individual time preferences without estimating utility functions even in settings where background consumption changes over time. It relies on lottery tickets with high rewards. In a standard intertemporal choice model high rewards decouple lottery...
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We propose a novel utility representation for preferences over risky timed outcomes. The weighted temporal utility model generalizes many well known utility functions for intertemporal decision making under risk. A decision maker with a weighted temporal utility function can have time consistent...
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, entrepreneurship and an obesity index. Very significant effects are found. If weexplain ? in a simple model where time discounting is …
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This paper tests whether the choice of when to be paid depends on the income type. A lab-in-the-field experiment in … dates. Participants allocated the windfall to the earlier of the two dates, in line with theory, but allocated milk payments …
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, effectively defeating the tyranny of discounting. A back-of-the-envelope calibration suggests that this last result is realistic …
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