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The Future, Now: A Review of Social Discounting [PDF]

open access: yesAnnual Review of Resource Economics, 2022
Governments across the world are coming under increasing pressure to invest heavily in projects that have maturities of decades or even centuries. Key areas of concern include climate change mitigation, environmental and biodiversity protection, nuclear decommissioning, enhancing infrastructure and coastal defenses, and long-term health care management.
Groom, Ben   +3 more
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Temporal discounting mediates the relationship between socio-economic status and social trust

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2021
Social trust and income are associated both within and across countries, such that higher income typically correlates with increased trust. While this correlation is well-documented, the psychological mechanisms sustaining this relationship remain poorly
Léonard Guillou   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Real and hypothetical rewards in self-control and social discounting [PDF]

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2011
Laboratory studies of choice and decision making among real monetary rewards typically use smaller real rewards than those common in real life. When laboratory rewards are large, they are almost always hypothetical.
Matthew L. Locey   +2 more
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The Social Discount Rate [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Political Economy, 2001
What discount rate should be applied to social investments? It is standard to use the market interest rate, thereby respecting private preferences. We show that application of this “revealed preference” criterion rests on faith, not on logic. It is justified only if preferences over all choices, including past choices, are time invariant.
Andrew Caplin, John Leahy
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Justifying social discounting: The rank-discounted utilitarian approach [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economic Theory, 2010
The most popular objective function used to determine optimal policies in infinite horizon models for social choice is the discounted utilitarian criterion, which has, however, been heavily criticised for treating generations unequally. For intergenerational justice purposes, this paper proposes to apply, instead to the discounted utilitarian criterion,
Stéphane Zuber, Geir B. Asheim
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Differential relationships between discount rates and health behaviors in an ethnically diverse college sample

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
Previous research has demonstrated associations between delay discount rate and engagement in several health behaviors. The delay discount rate is also inversely associated with social discount rates, a putative measure for sharing.
Natashia Bibriescas   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social discounting involves modulation of neural value signals by temporoparietal junction [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015
Tobias Kalenscher   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Regret Now, Compensate It Later: The Benefits of Experienced Regret on Future Altruism

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
This article explores how experienced regret and relief evoked in a risky gambling task influence subsequent intertemporal pro-social behavior. We apply a dictator game experiment with delayed rewards to investigate the effect on donating behavior by ...
Teng Lu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social Discounting and Intergenerational Pareto [PDF]

open access: yesEconometrica, 2018
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Tangren Feng, Shaowei Ke
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