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Hyperbolic Discounting of Public Goods [PDF]

open access: yes
This article examines revealed rates of time preference for public goods, using environmental quality as the case study. A nationally representative panel-based sample of 2,914 respondents considered a series of 5 conjoint policy choices, yielding 14,570
Joel Huber, W. Kip Viscusi
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Choice over Time [PDF]

open access: yes
In the last twenty years a growing body of experimental evidence has posed a challenge to the standard Exponential Discounting Model of choice over time.
Marco Mariotti, Paola Manzini
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Welfare Foundations of Discounting [PDF]

open access: yes
We investigate whether temporal preferences expressed as a sum of discounted consumption utilities can be derived from a welfare representation in the form of a sum of discounted total utilities.
Sáez-Martí, María   +1 more
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Time Preferences and Job Search: Evidence from France [PDF]

open access: yes
Increasing impatience reduces search efforts of unemployed job seekers and therefore decreases the exit rate from unemployment. Also, impatience reduces reservation wage and increases the exit rate.
Bassem Ben Halima, Mohamed Ben Halima
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Time estimation variability in delay discounting: Model comparison and considerations. [PDF]

open access: yesBehav Processes
Gelino BW   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Time preference and information acquisition

open access: yes, 2018
I consider the sequential implementation of a target information structure. I characterize the set of decision time distributions induced by all signal processes that satisfy a per-period learning capacity constraint.
Zhong, Weijie
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Adults with more severe psychopathy in the community show increased social discounting. [PDF]

open access: yesCommun Psychol
Nero N   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Which Measures of Time Preference Best Predict Outcomes? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment [PDF]

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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 ...
Burks, Stephen V.   +3 more
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