(SHARE), we elicit individual time preferences using competing discounting specifications. With the formulation that best …

corresponding demand for commitment can be observed even if individuals do not exhibit horizon-specific discounting. In addition …, good-specific discounting, under certain conditions, can explain the persistence of poverty and low savings by the poor …

it is quite under-explored in the economics domain. We find that: 1) traditional economic models based on discounting … is allowed; 2) our model, despite considering only a specific (exponential) form of discounting, can explain the data …' around the basic predictions of discounting theories: the deviations are not random and there are clear systematic patterns …

offender's time discounting. We exploit quasi-experimental variation in sentence length generated by a large collective pardon … in Italy and provide non-parametric evidence on the extent of discounting from the raw data on recidivism and sentence …

Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in …

market. Even though we allow for a general-hyperbolic specification (which has exponential discounting as a special case …

We compare different designs that have been used to test for an impact of time horizon on discounting, using real … declining (hyperbolic) discounting, but with other designs find constant or increasing discounting. As a whole, the data are not … consistent with any of these usual candidate discounting assumptions, and they also imply a violation of transitivity. The …

speeding tickets, speed discounting. Officers partially forgive motorists by writing a lower speed level than the speed that … officers observe. Verifying the level of speed discounting by different groups of officers and motorists and ascertaining the …, particularly African-Americans, are harsher on all motorists but even harsher on minority motorists regarding speed discounting …