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Recent Developments in the Experimental Elicitation of Time Preference

This methodological survey reviews recent developments in the design of experiments to elicit individuals' time preferences, with a focus on the measurement or control for potentially non-linear utility. While the objective of a time preference experiment is usually to estimate parameters of a discount function, assumptions concerning the nature of utility may have an important influence upon these estimates. The survey classifies experiment designs on two dimensions: whether they assume an equivalence between utility under risk and over time, and whether they result in an estimate of the curvature of utility.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9898

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: General‡
Thema
instantaneous utility
discounted utility
time preference
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Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Cheung, Stephen L.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2016

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Cheung, Stephen L.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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