• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Recent Developments in the Experimental Elicitation of Time Preference
  • Contributor: Cheung, Stephen L. [Author]
  • Published: Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2016
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: D90 ; discounted utility ; D03 ; C91 ; choice list ; time preference ; instantaneous utility
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  • Description: 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.
  • Access State: Open Access