centuries from today is new to the empirical literature on discounting and, with the appropriate risk adjustment, of relevance …

(SHARE), we elicit individual time preferences using competing discounting specifications. With the formulation that best …

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 …

. Yet, economic theory predicts that the scope for punishment as acting as a deterrent depends on how much individuals …

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 …

individual discount rate, this paper analyzes whether changes in time discounting can account for differences in body mass … remarkable increase in BMI experienced in recent years. We find some evidence for a link between time discounting and differences … our hypothesis the best chance, we analyze the development of the time discounting proxies that are most strongly related …

imposing any structural assumption on the instantaneous utility, intertemporal utility or the discounting functions. We find … assumption that discounting is consistent across domains can lead to non-negligible prediction errors in models involving non …

Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in … observable characteristics. This finding highlights the importance of education in development. -- Time discounting ; patience …