Search Results - subject:": time preference"

Magnitude effect in intertemporal allocation tasks

Sun, Chen; Potters, Jan - 2019

We investigate how intertemporal allocation of monetary rewards is influenced by the size of total budget, with a particular interest in the channels of influence. We find a significant magnitude effect: the budget share allocated to the later date increases with the size of the budget. At the...

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Eliciting utility curvature in time preference

Cheung, Stephen L. - 2019

rates in experimental data. To do so, it introduces a novel design to elicit time preference building upon a translation of …

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Impatience to Consume and Population Growth in a Simple Agrarian Economy

Amundsen, Eirik S.; Skonhoft, Anders - 2022

This paper studies the relationship between population size and the rate of time preference (RTP) in pre …

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Patience and comparative development

Sunde, Uwe; Dohmen, Thomas; Enke, Benjamin; Falk, Armin; … - 2022

-form analyses and model estimations. Based on a globally representative dataset on time preference in 76 countries, we document two …

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Financial Inclusion and Intertemporal Choice : Longitudinal Evidence from Indonesia

Chen, Jiaying - 2022

reflect underlying time preference parameters when individuals are credit constrained. This study is the first to empirically …

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Effective Wages under Workforce Scheduling with Heterogeneous Time Preferences

Besbes, Omar; Goyal, Vineet; Iyengar, Garud; Singal, Raghav - 2022

Problem definition. Motivated by the debate around drivers' welfare in on-demand transportation, we propose a framework to evaluate current practices and also possible alternatives. We study a setting in which riders seek drivers and a platform facilitates such matches over the course of the...

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Economic Preferences and the Self-selection of Immigrants

Deole, Sumit S.; Zhan, Crystal - 2022

Classical theories hypothesize individual economic preferences, including preferences toward risk, time, and trust, as determinants for migration intention. In the paper, we combine data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, European Social Survey, and World Values Survey to investigate how...

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Investigation of the Convex Time Budget Experiment by Parameter Recovery Simulation

Shimodaira, Yuta; Shiozawa, Kohei; Inukai, Keigo - 2022

The convex time budget (CTB) method is a widely used experimental method for eliciting an individual’s time preference …

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Do time preferences explain low health insurance take-up?

Baillon, Aurélien; O'Donnell, Owen; Quimbo, Stella A.; … - 2022

model of insurance that overlooks the relevance of time preference when liquidity is constrained. We design field survey … stronger parameterized time preference are less likely to insure and the partial association is most pronounced at low wealth …

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Uncertainty, Time Preference and Households’ Adoption of Rooftop Photovoltaic Technology

wu, haixia; Ge, Yan - 2022

explores the influence of uncertainty and time preference on rural households' adoption of rooftop photovoltaic technology … ambiguity aversion, half of those are present-biased households. (2) Risk preference, ambiguity preference and time preference … obviously and positively impact the possibility of the adoption of rooftop photovoltaic technology, and time preference plays an …

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