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On the Endogenous Determination of Time Preference
Gary S. Becker,Casey B. Mulligan +1 more
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This article is published in Research Papers in Economics.The article was published on 1994-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 23 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Time preference.read more
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The Endogenous Determination of Time Preference
Gary S. Becker,Casey B. Mulligan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors model a consumer's efforts to reduce the discount on future utilities and show how wealth, mortality, addictions, uncertainty, and other variables affect the degree of time preference.
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The shape of temptation : implications for the economic lives of the poor
TL;DR: The authors argue that the relation between temptations and the level of consumption plays a key role in explaining the observed behaviors of the poor, which would not arise if temptations were either non-declining or entirely absent.
A Benefit Cost Analysis of the Abecedarian Early Childhood Intervention.
TL;DR: The Carolina Abecedarian Study as discussed by the authors was an experiment in the provision of intensive pre-school services to children in low-income families from infancy to five years of age.
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The Social Benefits of Education
Jere R. Behrman,Nevzer Stacey +1 more
TL;DR: Stacey et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the impact of education on social benefits using behavioral data and whether the social benefits of education justify public policy interventions, and found that education also provides "social benefits" for individuals and society at large, including a better way of taking care of ourselves and consequently creating a better society to live in.
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Correlates of delay-discount rates: Evidence from Tsimane' Amerindians of the Bolivian rain forest
Kris N. Kirby,Ricardo Godoy,Victoria Reyes-García,Elizabeth Byron,Lilian Apaza,William R. Leonard,Eddy Pérez,Vincent Vadez,David Wilkie +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimated discount rates for money and candy rewards in each of four quarters for 154 Tsimane' Amerindians (10-80 years of age).