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Analysis of an original nationwide Internet survey reveals that health-related behavior shows associations with three … aspects of time discounting: (i) impatience, measured by the overall discount rate; (ii) present bias, measured by the degree … are indicative of being a time-inconsistent procrastinator, and classified as sophisticated otherwise. The health …
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In this paper, we review published studies to assess the influence of time preferences on human health behaviour. Our … review indicates that elicited discount rates for health have been found to be higher than those for money in both the social … contribute to governmental emphasis on acute health care, rather than preventive health care. We then examine how time …
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forecasted energy prices. Using Danish guidelines as a case study, we explore the discounting assumptions in these input prices …
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The social rate of discount is a crucial driver of the social cost of carbon (SCC), i.e. the expected present discounted value of marginal damages resulting from emitting one ton of carbon today. Policy makers should set carbon prices to the SCC using a carbon tax or a competitive permits...
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offender's time discounting. We exploit quasi-experimental variation in sentence length generated by a large collective pardon … in Italy and provide non-parametric evidence on the extent of discounting from the raw data on recidivism and sentence …
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