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Social discounting of pain. [PDF]
J Exp Anal Behav, 2020 Impatience can be formalized as a delay discount rate, describing how the subjective value of reward decreases as it is delayed. By analogy, selfishness can be formalized as a social discount rate, representing how the subjective value of rewarding another person decreases with increasing social distance.
Story GW +5 more
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Social Discounting under Risk. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2017 As a measure of how prosocial behavior depends on social distance, social discounting is defined as the decrease in generosity between the decision maker and the recipient as the social distance increases. While risk is a ubiquitous part of modern life, there is limited research on the relationship between risk and prosocial behavior.
Jin J, Pei G, Ma Q.
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Restricted dominant unanimity and social discounting
Journal of Mathematical EconomicszbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Dong-Xuan, Bach, Qu, Xiangyu
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The Future, Now: A Review of Social Discounting [PDF]
Annual 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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The Social Discount Rate [PDF]
Journal 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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What Makes You Generous? The Influence of Rural and Urban Rearing on Social Discounting in China. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 An individual's willingness to share resources declines as the social distance between the decision maker and the recipient increases, which is known as social discounting.
Qingguo Ma, Guanxiong Pei, Jia Jin
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Justifying social discounting: The rank-discounted utilitarian approach [PDF]
Journal 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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Regret Now, Compensate It Later: The Benefits of Experienced Regret on Future Altruism
Frontiers 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
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Social Discounting and Intergenerational Pareto [PDF]
Econometrica, 2018 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Tangren Feng, Shaowei Ke
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about unprecedented global changes in individual and collective behaviour. To reduce the spread of the virus, public health bodies have promoted social distancing measures while attempting to mitigate their mental health
Alex Lloyd +17 more
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