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prediction errors, we compare people's forecasts of their life satisfaction in five years' time with their current realizations …
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We document considerable within-person (over time) variation in diet quality that is not fully explained by responses …
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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 …
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Economists and psychologists have devised numerous instruments to measure time preferences and have generated a rich … literature examining the extent to which time preferences predict important outcomes; however, we still do not know which … on outcomes, we gather four different time preference measures and test the extent to which they predict both on their …
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: excessively optimistic beliefs about future demands on an individual's time. The models can be distinguished by how individuals …
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Economists and psychologists have devised numerous instruments to measure time preferences and have generated a rich … literature examining the extent to which time preferences predict important outcomes; however, we still do not know which … on outcomes, we gather four different time preference measures and test the extent to which they predict both on their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144847
future by using present tense (like German). We complement Chen's approach with experimentally elicited time preference data …
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. 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 …
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when a multiple price list is used instead of a convex time budget design. Also, the effect is reduced by half when sooner …
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. 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884153