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We experimentally study the e¤ect of time on altruism. By postponing payments in a standard Dictator game, subjects allocate a future payment between themselves and others. Since both the payoffs of the Dictator and the Receiver are delayed until the same time, standard intertemporal utility...
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We reconcile �findings from the Multiple Price List method (Andersen et al., 2008) and the Convex Time Budget method (Andreoni and Sprenger, 2012a) that seem to have generated a heated debate in the time preference literature. Specifi�cally, we discuss the claims of Andreoni and Sprenger...
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Intertemporal choice has been drawing attention in econophysics and neuroeconomics. In this paper, we experimentally estimate the parameters and AICc (Akaike Information Criterion with small sample correction) of intertemporal choice models (exponential, simple hyperbolic, quasi hyperbolic, and...
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The observation of declining discount rates in experimental settings has led many to promote hyperbolic discounting … over standard exponential discounting as the preferred descriptive model of intertemporal choice. I develop a new framework … likelihood estimates of discounting parameters. I apply this estimation method to a stated-preference survey of river basin …
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Willingness to pay for an environmental improvement is a function of how long it takes to deliver the improvement. To measure the effect of time on benefits, I utilize a discrete choice experiment that includes an attribute for delay until the improvement occurs and simultaneously estimate...
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Impulsivity and inconsistency in intertemporal choice (discounting) have drawn attention in econophysics and … neuroeconomics. Although it is well established that most people often show irrational discounting (e.g., hyperbolic discounting … some others may neither reduce impulsivity nor correct inconsistency and (ii) when q-exponential discounting is utilized …
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In this paper we propose a new strategy for comparing the behavior of a hyperbolic discounter who possesses self-control problems to an exponential discounter who does not. Our strategy controls for inherent differences in overall levels of impatience across discount functions, which thereby...
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We explore intertemporal decision making to test the extent to which elicited discount rates and a self-reported scale of impatience measure the same behavioral characteristic. We conduct experiments in which we elicit discount rates using monetary rewards and a self-reported measure of...
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Recent research has demonstrated that choices between gambles are systematically influenced by the way they are expressed. Kahneman and Tversky's Prospect Theory (Kahneman, D., A. Tversky. 1979. Prospect theory: An analysis of decision under risk. Econometrica 47(2) 363--391.) explains many of...
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neuroeconomics. Several models have been proposed for intertemporal choice: exponential discounting, general hyperbolic discounting … (exponential discounting with logarithmic time perception of the Weber–Fechner law, a q-exponential discount model based on Tsallis …’s statistics), simple hyperbolic discounting, and Stevens’ power law–exponential discounting (exponential discounting with Stevens …
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