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Bias in Wages and Time Preferences (An Application of Behavioral Economics) [PDF]
The main goal of this article is an applied investigation of one of the types of biases caused by overconfidence, under the heading of bias in expected relative wage (or individual overplacement) and its relationship with time preferences (in the form of
Mohaddeseh Pouralimardan +1 more
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Socioeconomic status, time preferences and pro-environmentalism
Future-oriented individuals tend to display more pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours, compared to those who are present-oriented. Investigating the determinants of time preferences could therefore shed light on factors that also influence ...
Aurore Grandin +4 more
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Parenting values and the intergenerational transmission of time preferences
Previous research has documented a correlation in time preferences across generations. However, this evidence is vulnerable to concerns of reverse causality and the transmission mechanisms remain largely unknown.
A. Brenøe, Thomas Epper
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Time-Inconsistent Bargaining and Cross-Commitments
The paper studies bargaining games involving players with present-biased preferences. The paper shows that the relative timing of bargaining rewards and bargaining costs will determine whether the players’ present-bias will affect bargaining outcomes. In
Manuel A. Utset
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The Factors Associated with Risk and Time Preferences: Evidence from Australian Data
Risk and time preferences are crucial to economic growth because they can influence people's decisions about saving and investing. These preferences may partially explain inequality, the reason why the poor will always be poor.
Angelita Titis Pertiwi
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Do time preferences explain low health insurance take‐up?
Low insurance take-up in low-income populations is not easily explained by the standard single-period expected utility model of insurance that overlooks the relevance of time preference when liquidity is constrained. We design field survey instruments to
A. Baillon +3 more
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Farmers’ contract breach behavior is cited as one of the major stumbling blocks in the sustainable expansion of contract farming in many developing countries. This paper examines farmers’ contract breach decisions from the perspective of time preferences.
Jing HOU +3 more
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Psychological Effects of Poverty on Time Preferences
We test whether an environment of poverty affects time preferences through purely psychological channels. We measured discount rates among farmers in Uganda who made decisions about when to enjoy entertainment instead of working. To circumvent the role
Vojtěch Bartoš +3 more
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Time Matters: Time Perspectives Predict Intertemporal Prosocial Preferences
The study utilizes the Chinese version of the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI-C) and a novelty intertemporal prosocial discounting paradigm to explore the preferences of individuals with the Present Impulsive Time Perspective (PITP) and the ...
Teng Lu, Dapeng Liang, Mei Hong
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Preferences stability: A measure of preferences changes over time [PDF]
Producción CientíficaTraditionally, preferences have been considered stable although there are growing evidences that such stability is a mere theoretical assumption.
Andrés Calle, Rocío de +2 more
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