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Quality of life differences across areas can be measured by differences in "real wages" where real wages are computed as nominal wages adjusted for the cost of living. Computing cost of living differences involves several important issues, including how housing prices should be measured....
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offender's time discounting. We exploit quasi-experimental variation in sentence length generated by a large collective pardon … in Italy and provide non-parametric evidence on the extent of discounting from the raw data on recidivism and sentence …
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centuries from today is new to the empirical literature on discounting and, with the appropriate risk adjustment, of relevance …
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, quasi-hyperbolic discounting as well as subjective failure probability over future payments. We investigate the predictive …
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Research has shown that procrastination has signicant adverse effects on individuals, including lower savings and poorer health. Procrastination is typically modeled as resulting from present bias. In this paper we study an alternative: excessively optimistic beliefs about future demands on an...
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the economics domain. In the experiment we find that: 1) traditional economic models based on discounting alone cannot …; 2) our model, despite considering only a specific (exponential) form of discounting, can explain the data much better … basic predictions of discounting theories: the deviations are not random and there are clear systematic patterns of …
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We present results from a laboratory study of loss aversion in the context of intertemporal choice. We investigate whether the provision of (windfall) endowments results in different elicited discount rates relative to subjects who earn income or earn and retain the income for a period before...
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corresponding demand for commitment can be observed even if individuals do not exhibit horizon-specific discounting. In addition …, good-specific discounting, under certain conditions, can explain the persistence of poverty and low savings by the poor … ; good-specific discounting ; savings ; poverty traps …
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We compare different designs that have been used to test for an impact of time horizon on discounting, using real … declining (hyperbolic) discounting, but with other designs find constant or increasing discounting. As a whole, the data are not … consistent with any of these usual candidate discounting assumptions, and they also imply a violation of transitivity. The …
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market. Even though we allow for a general-hyperbolic specification (which has exponential discounting as a special case … specification) of 8 %. -- present bias ; hyperbolic discounting ; discount rate ; hedonic estimation …
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