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DISCOUNTING AND CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY
A constant social discount rate cannot reflect both a reasonable opportunity cost of public funds and an ethically defensible concern for generations in the distant future. We use a model of hyperbolic discounting that achieves both goals.
Tsur, Yacov, Karp, Larry S.
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Properties of the Social Discount Rate in a Benthamite Framework with Heterogeneous Degrees of Impatience [PDF]
This paper derives the properties of the discount rate that should be applied to a public-sector project when the affected population has heterogeneous degrees of impatience.
Elyès Jouini +2 more
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The hare and the tortoise: Open access publications' immediate impact and lasting advantage
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Open Access has changed how research is published and discovered. Studies generally report that OA articles are cited and mentioned more often than non‐OA, describing an open access advantage (OAA). The mechanisms causing the OAA are under‐investigated: this research analyzes citation and altmetrics post‐publication, reporting on the ...
Michael Taylor
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Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionDialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a transdiagnostic treatment that can address various mental health issues across diverse populations, including college students.
Diana Mejía, Laurent Avila-Chauvet
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Budget allocation and the revealed social rate of time preference for health [PDF]
Appropriate decisions based on cost-effectiveness evaluations of health care technologies depend upon the cost-effectiveness threshold and its rate of growth as well as some social rate of time preference for health. The concept of the cost-effectiveness
Mike Paulden, Karl Claxton
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Informational and Normative Influence on Conformity in Autism
Autism Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This preregistered study examined whether adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show reduced social conformity and whether any such reduction depends on the type of social influence. Social conformity—the tendency to adjust one's judgments to align with those of others—is typically driven by normative (acceptance‐seeking) and ...
Akiko Kobayashi +4 more
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PLoS ONEEarly exposure to poverty may have profound and enduring impacts on developmental trajectories over the lifespan. This study investigated potential links between childhood socioeconomic position, recent economic change, and temporal discounting in a ...
Simon B Wang, Jamie L Hanson
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Cognitive Procedures and Hyperbolic Discounting
"Hyperbolic discount functions are characterized by a relatively high discount rate over short horizons and a relatively low discount rate over long horizons" (Laibson 1997).We suggest two cognitive procedures where individuals perceive future utility as
Nir, A.
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Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.Abstract This study presents a novel bioeconomy optimization framework, BiOpt, designed to address critical questions regarding the strategic use of limited US biomass resources for biofuel production. By integrating detailed techno‐economic analyses, life cycle assessments, and resource assessment data, BiOpt optimizes resource distributions across ...
Nicholas A. Carlson +3 more
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An Even Sterner Review: Introducing Relative Prices into the Discounting Debate [PDF]
The Stern Review has had a major influence on the policy discussion on climate change. One reason is that the report has raised the estimated cost of unmitigated climate damages by an order of magnitude compared to most earlier estimates, leading to a ...
Sterner, Thomas, Persson, U. Martin
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