Gender differences in time preferences

Economics Letters

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 413-415

  Dittrich, Marcus ^a,b   Leipold, Kristina ^c  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CESifo ^*  (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discounting; Gender differences; Time preference

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892880403     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.01.002     Document Type: Article

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