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Economics and Philosophy, 1989
The social discount rate – the rate at which future benefit flows from government investment are discounted to present value – has been a frequent subject of technical debate among professional economists. From a broader perspective, however, the selection of an appropriate rate enjoins consideration of questions that define the very contours of our ...
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The social discount rate – the rate at which future benefit flows from government investment are discounted to present value – has been a frequent subject of technical debate among professional economists. From a broader perspective, however, the selection of an appropriate rate enjoins consideration of questions that define the very contours of our ...
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Social Discounting: Preference Reversals and Links with Temporal Discounting
Review of Behavioral Economics, 2020The purpose of this study is twofold. First, we test the hypothesis that the preference reversal occurs in social discounting. Second, we investigate the relationship between social discounting and temporal discounting. In the conducted experiments, participants made hypothetical choices between a smaller monetary reward for a less socially distant ...
Jan Rusek, Adam Karbowski, Jerzy Osinski
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Non-Paternalistic Social Discounting
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016The long-run social discount rate converts the long-term costs and benefits of public projects into present values. Its value depends on parameters of social preferences that capture social impatience and aversion to intertemporal consumption inequalities.
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Social Discounting of Monetary Rewards
European Psychologist, 2011The purpose of the study was to test hypotheses regarding a form of social discounting in which the subjective value of a reward decreases as a function of the number of people it is shared with. Based on evolutionary theory, individuals’ social discounting rates were expected to depend on both reward amount and the type of relationship with the ...
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Socially discounted growth processes
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 1996Abstract In 1987 the Brundtland-Commission described “sustainable development” as that which meets the needs of the present generation without prejudicing those of the future generations. The practical materialization of this principle leads to growth processes in which the “future” has to be taken into account.
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Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 1992
Abstract: Recently the discount rate recommended by Treasury Board Canada for use in program evaluations and project assessments has been challenged. This article reviews the theory and evidence supporting various estimates of the Canadian discount rate, and includes a comparison of rates used by the U.S. government and the World Bank. The article was
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Abstract: Recently the discount rate recommended by Treasury Board Canada for use in program evaluations and project assessments has been challenged. This article reviews the theory and evidence supporting various estimates of the Canadian discount rate, and includes a comparison of rates used by the U.S. government and the World Bank. The article was
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Aggregate Social Discount Rate Derived from Individual Discount Rates
Management Science, 2002In the economic evaluation of large public-sector projects, an aggregate social discount rate may be used in present worth comparison of alternatives. This paper uses the assumptions that individual discount rates are constant over time and approximately Normally distributed across the affected population, with mean μ and variance σ2, to derive an ...
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Social determinants of health and US cancer screening interventions: A systematic review
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2023Ariella R Korn
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