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Time discounting for primary and monetary rewards
Reuben, Ernesto; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper shows that there is a positive and statistically significant correlation between the short-term discount rate over a monetary reward and the short-term discount rate over a primary reward (chocolate). This correlation, however, is absent among subjects who do not like chocolate and...
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Experiments in decision, organization and exchange
Day, Richard Hollis (contributor) - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004159191
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Procrastination, Academic Success and the Effectiveness of a Remedial Program
De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Procrastination produces harmful effects for human capital investments and studying activities. Using data from a large sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual behaviour of students, considering the delay in finalizing their university enrolment procedure. We...
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PROCRASTINATION, ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A REMEDIAL PROGRAM
Paola, Maria De; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Statistiche e … - 2014
Procrastination produces harmful effects for human capital investments and studying activities. Using data from a large sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual behaviour of students, considering the delay in finalizing their university enrolment procedure. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843549
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Do Couples Discount Future Consequences Less than Individuals?
Abdellaoui, Mohammed; l'Haridon, Olivier; Paraschiv, Corina - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management (CREM) - 2013
time. We use Fishburn and Rubinstein’s (1982) discounted utility model and infer measurements of utility and discounting at …
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Job Search Behaviour and Time Preferences: Testing Exponential Versus Hyperbolic Discounting
Huizen, Thomas; Plantenga, Janneke - In: De Economist 162 (2014) 3, pp. 223-245
hyperbolic discounting model. Theoretically, the relations between time preferences and job search intensity, reservation wages … and the exit rate depend on whether exponential or hyperbolic discounting is assumed. By analysing these relations … orientation. The empirical results are consistent with the hyperbolic discounting model. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media …
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HIV/AIDS, Risk Aversion and Intertemporal Choice
Lammers, Judith; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
This study analyses the relation between perceived health status and intertemporal choice. We use data from experiments with real monetary rewards conduEted among students in South Africa to estimate risk and time preferences. These experimental data, based on muitiple price lists developed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255821
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Viewing the future through a warped lens: Why uncertainty generates hyperbolic discounting
Epper, Thomas; Fehr-Duda, Helga; Bruhin, Adrian - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 43 (2011) 3, pp. 169-203
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A Vague Theory of Choice over Time
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We propose a novel approach to modelling time preferences, based on a cognitive shortcoming of human decision makers: the perception of future events becomes increasingly ‘blurred’ as the events are pushed further in time. We axiomatise a class of preference representations which can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822581
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HIV/AIDS, Risk Aversion and Intertemporal Choice
Lammers, Judith; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
This study analyses the relation between perceived health status and intertemporal choice. We use data from experiments with real monetary rewards conduEted among students in South Africa to estimate risk and time preferences. These experimental data, based on muitiple price lists developed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137299