Many discounting choices affect both the decision maker as well as others. The interpersonal nature of these choices is not well explored because the current empirical literature primarily focuses on estimating individual discount rates (IDRs). We design a laboratory experiment to elicit...

Coastal and other area resources such as tidal wetlands, seagrasses, coral reefs, wetlands, and other ecosystems are often harmed by environmental damage that might be inflicted by human actions, or could occur from natural hazards such as hurricanes. Society may wish to restore resources to...

We employ the convex time budget approach in a laboratory experiment to measure individual discount rates for time horizons that are longer (5, 10, and 20 years) than what is typically explored in previous literature. We reject hyperbolic discounting in favor of constant discount rates and...