Validating an ultra-short survey measure of patience

Economics Letters

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 142-145

  Vischer, Thomas ^a   Dohmen, Thomas ^b,c,d   Falk, Armin ^c,d,e,f   Huffman, David ^c,g   Schupp, Jürgen ^d,h   Sunde, Uwe ^a,c,d,f   Wagner, Gert G ^d,i,j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c IZA   (Germany)

^d DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^f CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^g SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^h FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^j TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Discounting; Time preferences; Validation of survey measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877886019     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.04.007     Document Type: Article

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