We compare different designs that have been used to test for an impact of time horizon on discounting, using real …

. Yet, economic theory predicts that the scope for punishment as acting as a deterrent depends on how much individuals … criminals have short time horizons, then it is hard to imagine punishment acting as a key deterrent. This paper provides the … first empirical investigation of the link between time preferences and criminal behavior. Our study is made possible by …

This methodological survey reviews recent developments in the design of experiments to elicit individuals' time … preferences, with a focus on the measurement or control for potentially non-linear utility. While the objective of a time … assume an equivalence between utility under risk and over time, and whether they result in an estimate of the curvature of …

of Becker's theory to model preferences over continuous time blocks. To examine whether the predictions of the model are …Most activities in life require a certain amount of continuous time. Yet, in the traditional economic model of time … allocation, the time block is not taken into account. Hence, the same amount of utility is derived from an activity regardless of …

rates in experimental data. To do so, it introduces a novel design to elicit time preference building upon a translation of … the Holt and Laury method for risk. The results demonstrate that utility elicited directly from choice over time is …

when a multiple price list is used instead of a convex time budget design. Also, the effect is reduced by half when sooner …

future by using present tense (like German). We complement Chen's approach with experimentally elicited time preference data …

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to …

Standard consumption utility is linked in time to a consumption event, whereas the timing of prosocial utility flows is …-offs, existing models of other-regarding preferences abstract from the time signature of utility flows, limiting their explanatory … scope. Building on a canonical intertemporal choice framework, we characterize the behavioral implications of the time …