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Impatience among preschool children and their mothers
Kosse, Fabian; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2011
Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of … choice task where the mothers faced trade-offs between a smaller-sooner and a larger-later monetary reward with a delay of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524369
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Waiting to choose
Imas, Alex; Kuhn, Michael A.; Mironova, Vera - 2016
We study the role of heuristic versus deliberative processing in intertemporal choice. Using studies in the Democratic Republic of Congo and an online labor market, we show that waiting periods - designed to prompt deliberation by temporally separating news about choice sets from choices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557776
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Impatience among preschool children and their mothers
Kosse, Fabian; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2012
Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of … choice task where the mothers faced trade-offs between a smaller-sooner and a larger-later monetary reward with a delay of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307844
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Impatience among preschool children and their mothers
Kosse, Fabian; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2011
Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of … choice task where the mothers faced trade-offs between a smaller-sooner and a larger-later monetary reward with a delay of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282483
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Household behavioral preferences and the child labor-education trade-off : framed field experimental evidence from Ethiopia
Basu, Arnab K.; Dimova, Ralitza - 2020
Using data from the Rural Ethiopian Household Survey, which contains a behavioral module, we explore the link between adult risk and time preferences and the incidence and the intensity of child labor. While as expected child labor at both the extensive and the intensive margin is a result of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179388
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Impatience and uncertainty : experimental decisions predict adolescents' field behavior
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2011
We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to … particular, more impatient children and adolescents are more likely to spend money on alcohol and cigarettes, have a higher body … attitudes are only weak predictors of field behavior. -- experiments with children and adolescents ; risk ; ambiguity ; time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009375050
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Which measures of time preference best predict outcomes? : evidence from a large-scale field experiment
Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Götte, Lorenz; … - 2011
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 measures work best. With the help of a large sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309461
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Impatience and uncertainty : experimental decisions predict adolescents' field behavior
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2010
We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to … impatient children and adolescents are more likely to spend money on alcohol and cigarettes, have a higher body mass index (BMI … field behavior. -- experiments with children and adolescents ; risk ; ambiguity ; time preferences ; health status ; savings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009315296
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Trust and trustworthiness under the prospect theory : a field experiment in Vietnam
Nguyen, Quang; Villeval, Marie-Claire; Xu, Hui - 2012
We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in Vietnamese villages and by estimating the parameters of the Cumulative Prospect Theory and of quasi-hyperbolic time preferences. We find that while probability sensitivity or risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621801
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Impatience and Uncertainty : Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior
Sutter, Matthias - 2011
We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to … impatient children and adolescents are more likely to spend money on alcohol and cigarettes, have a higher body mass index (BMI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131926