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The effect of language on economic behavior : experimental evidence from children's intertemporal choices
Sutter, Matthias; Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2015 - Date: 25 September 2015
According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343740
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The effect of language on economic behavior : experimental evidence from children's intertemporal choices
Sutter, Matthias; Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2015
According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346563
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The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior : Experimental Evidence from Children's Intertemporal Choices
Sutter, Matthias - 2015
According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013093
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The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior : Experimental Evidence from Children's Intertemporal Choices
Sutter, Matthias - 2015
According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014019
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Collective intertemporal decisions and heterogeneity in groups
Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2021
Many important intertemporal decisions are made by groups rather than individuals. What happens to collective decisions when there is internal conflict about the tradeoff between present and future has not been thoroughly investigated so far. We study experimentally the causal effect of group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415076
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Collective intertemporal decisions and heterogeneity in groups
Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2021
Many important intertemporal decisions are made by groups rather than individuals. What happens to collective decisions when there is internal conflict about the tradeoff between present and future has not been thoroughly investigated so far. We study experimentally the causal effect of group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418242
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Collective intertemporal decisions and heterogeneity in groups
Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019
Many important intertemporal decisions, such as investments of firms or households, are made by groups rather than individuals. Little is known what happens to such collective decisions when group members have different incentives for waiting, because the economics literature on group decision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019615
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Collective intertemporal decisions and heterogeneity in groups
Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019
Many important intertemporal decisions, such as investments of firms or households, are made by groups rather than individuals. Little is known what happens to such collective decisions when group members have different incentives for waiting, because the economics literature on group decision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029172
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The effects of language on children's intertemporal choices
Sutter, Matthias; Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2014
, which is often associated with intertemporal preferences. Controlling for risk taking, the relation between language and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483249
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Economic preferences across generations and family clusters : a large-scale experiment
Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2020 - This version: July 2, 2020
) positively correlated with their children's economic preferences, even when controlling for personality traits and socio …Economic preferences are important for lifetime outcomes such as educational achievements, health status, or labor … market success. We present a holistic view of how economic preferences are related within families. In an experiment with 544 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241582