Intertemporal choice shifts in households: Do they occur and are they good?

dc.contributor.author	Carlsson, Fredrik
dc.contributor.author	Yang, Xiaojun
dc.date.accessioned	2013-07-31T09:54:40Z
dc.date.available	2013-07-31T09:54:40Z
dc.date.issued	2013-06
dc.identifier.issn	1403-2465
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2077/33591
dc.description	JEL classification: C91; C92; C93; D10	sv
dc.description.abstract	We examine whether and to what extent joint choices are more or less patient and time-consistent than individual choices in households. We use data from an artefactual field experiment where both individual and joint time preferences were elicited. We find a substantial shift from individual to joint household decisions. Interestingly, joint decisions do not only generate beneficial shifts, i.e., patient and time-consistent shifts. On the contrary, a majority of the observed shifts are impatient and time-inconsistent shifts. A number of observable characteristics are significantly correlated with these shifts in preferences from individual decisions to joint decisions.	sv
dc.format.extent	28 pages	sv
dc.language.iso	eng	sv
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working Papers in Economics	sv
dc.relation.ispartofseries	569	sv
dc.subject	individual decisions	sv
dc.subject	joint decisions	sv
dc.subject	patience	sv
dc.subject	time-consistency	sv
dc.subject	choice shifts	sv
dc.subject	rural China	sv
dc.title	Intertemporal choice shifts in households: Do they occur and are they good?	sv
dc.type	Text	sv
dc.type.svep	report	sv
dc.contributor.organization	Dept of Economics, University of Gothenburg	sv