Household disability and time preferences: Evidence from incentivized experiments in Vietnam

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This paper investigates individual time preferences between individuals living in a disability household and those who live in a non-disability household in Vietnam. Using randomized primes together with experimental tasks to elicit time preferences, our empirical results show that individuals living in a disability household are (i) more likely to be present biased, and (ii) more patient. The effects are even more pronounced when the disability happened recently (within the last 8 years). These findings show causal evidence that time preferences differ among more vulnerable groups of society and may be one cause for their often observed adverse socioeconomic conditions.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: TVSEP Working Paper ; No. WP-027

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles ; Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡ ; Health and Inequality
• Subject: Disability ; Time preferences ; Priming ; Vietnam

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Rink, Ute ; Rollwage, Theresa
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Leibniz Universität Hannover, Thailand Vietnam Socio Economic Panel (TVSEP)
• (where): Hannover
• (when): 2022

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/283454
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET