Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8942204 | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 2018 | 23 Pages |
Abstract
Household members make monetary tradeoffs across time. Classical economics treats these decisions as if one rational individual makes them. This assumption masks important other regarding concerns between spouses. We designed an artefactual field experiment and collected data from 94 pairs of cohabiting couples to capture the complex nature of intra-household time preferences. Estimation results show that (1) the interpersonal discount rate, the rate used to tradeoff intertemporal payoffs between one's own payoff and the spouse's payoff, is significantly different from the individual discount rate, and (2) the interpersonal discount rate may provide an alternative way for people to express their other-regarding preferences towards their spouses.
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Authors
Rong Rong, Matthew Gnagey, Therese Grijalva,