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including future bias in addition to present bias. In particular, the experiment (1) runs a non-parametric test of time …) the result suggests that many subjects exhibiting future bias, indicating an inverse S-curve time discount function …
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In this paper, we develop a revealed preference methodology that allows us to explore whether time inconsistencies in household choice are the product of individual preference nonstationarities or the result of individual heterogeneity and renegotiation within the collective unit. An empirical...
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It has been argued that hyperbolic discounting of future gains and losses leads to time-inconsistent behavior and thereby, in the context of health economics, not enough investment in health and too much indulgence of unhealthy consumption. Here, we challenge this view. We set up a life-cycle...
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Most evidence of hyperbolic discounting is based on violations of either stationarity or time consistency as observed in choice experiments. These choice reversals may however also result from time-varying discount rates. Hyperbolic discounting is a plausible explanation for choice reversals...
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, structural estimations reveal that this is because agents exhibit present bias in own but not in others' consumption. We show … that very similar differences in present bias are observed in the absence of any interpersonal trade-offs, when agents … decide either for themselves or on behalf of another person. At the individual level, we find that present bias in own …
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