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Stability of Time Preferences [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 Individuals frequently face intertemporal decisions. For the purposes of economic analysis, the preference parameters assumed to govern these decisions are generally considered to be stable economic primitives. However, evidence on the stability of time preferences is notably lacking.
Meier, Stephan, Sprenger, Charles
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Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences [PDF]
American Economic Review, 2012 Risk and time are intertwined. The present is known while the future is inherently risky. This is problematic when studying time preferences since uncontrolled risk can generate apparently present-biased behavior. We systematically manipulate risk in an intertemporal choice experiment.
Andreoni, James, Sprenger, Charles
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Discounting and Digit Ratio: Low 2D:4D Predicts Patience for a Sample of Females
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2018 Inter-temporal trade-offs are ubiquitous in human decision making. We study the relationship between preferences over such trade-offs and the ratio of the second digit to that of the forth (2D:4D), a marker for pre-natal exposure to sex hormones ...
Diego Aycinena, Lucas Rentschler
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What Time-Travel Teaches Us about Future-Bias
Philosophies, 2021 Future-biased individuals systematically prefer positively valenced events to be in the future (positive future-bias) and negatively valenced events to be in the past (negative future-bias).
Kristie Miller
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Back or to the future? Preferences of time travelers [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2012 Popular culture reflects whatever piques our imagination. Think of the myriad movies and books that take viewers and readers on an imaginary journey to the past or the future (e.g., Gladiator, The Time Machine).
Florence Ettlin, Ralph Hertwig
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Revealed time preference [PDF]
Games and Economic Behavior, 2014 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Voice pitch preferences of adolescents: Do changes across time indicate a shift towards potentially adaptive adult-like preferences? [PDF]
, 2013 An evolutionary approach to attractiveness judgments emphasises that many human trait preferences exist in order to assist adaptive mate choice. Here we test an adaptive development hypothesis, whereby voice pitch preferences indicating potential mate ...
Jones, Benedict +18 more
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Becoming sensitive: Males’ risk and time preferences after the 2008 financial crisis
European Economic Review, 2020 This paper presents evidence suggesting men’s (but not women’s) risk and time preferences have systematically become sensitive to local economic conditions since the global financial crisis (GFC) of 2008.
Michael Jetter +2 more
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Time discounting in relation to career preferences [PDF]
, 2001 The present study used a longitudinal design to test aspects of Kirby and Herrnstein's (1995) theory of time discounting. Specifically, the prediction that preferences reverse due to changes in delay was tested in a longitudinal study of career-path ...
Saunders, Robert, Fogarty, Gerard J.
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Preferences after pan(dem)ics: Time and risk in the shadow of COVID-19 [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2022 This paper uses the COVID-19 health crisis to study how individual preferences respond to generalized traumatic events. We review previous literature on natural and man-made disasters. Using incentive-compatible tasks, we simultaneously estimate risk and
Xavier Gassmann +3 more
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