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

dc.contributor.author	Carlsson, Fredrik
dc.contributor.author	Yang, Xiaojun
dc.contributor.organization	Dept of Economics, University of Gothenburg	sv
dc.date.accessioned	2013-07-31T09:54:40Z
dc.date.available	2013-07-31T09:54:40Z
dc.date.issued	2013-06
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.identifier.issn	1403-2465
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2077/33591
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

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