Time discounting for primary and monetary rewards

Ernesto Reuben, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales

Economics Letters, 2010, vol. 106, issue 2, 125-127

Abstract: This paper reports a positive and statistically significant relation between short-term discount rates elicited with a monetary and a primary reward (chocolate). This finding suggests that high short-term discount rates are related to an underlying individual trait.

Keywords: Time; preferences; Hyperbolic; discounting; Intertemporal; choice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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