Research Grant
[Cite as http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP160101794]Researchers: Stephen Cheung (Chief Investigator)
Brief description The rate of time preference in choice experiments: A systematic re-analysis. This project intends to re-analyse data from over 20 years of past research to understand when and why people sometimes make short-sighted choices. Time preference is a core concept in both theoretical and applied economics and a key input in public policy, yet empirical understanding of it is poor. Almost all important decisions of households, businesses and government involve benefits and costs that unfold over time. Many economists have used decision-making experiments to study how people value the future and make trade-offs over time, but these have not reached any clear consensus. This project plans to systematically re-analyse primary data using state-of-the-art estimation techniques to generate new estimates of the discount rate for each study. These will then be analysed in a meta-regression analysis to identify the factors that cause discount rates to vary between studies.
Funding Amount $97,000
Funding Scheme Discovery Projects
- ARC : DP160101794
- PURL : http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP160101794
