Time preference and its relationship with age, health, and survival probability

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-19

  Chao, Li Wei ^c   Szrek, Helena ^a   Pereira, Nuno Sousa ^a   Pauly, Mark V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Delay discounting; Expected survival probability; Health; South africa; Subjective discount rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350164621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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