Happiness and Time Preference: The Effect of Positive Affect in a Random-Assignment Experiment

By John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee. 2011

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, Safety Research

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Citations in the corpus

• Temporal Stability of Time Preferences (2015, unknown): “…in both years of the study (for similar approaches to elicit time preferences, see Coller & Williams, 1999; Harrison, Lau, & Rutstrom, 2002; McClure et al., 2004; Dohmen et al., 2006; Tanaka, Camerer, & Nguyen, 2010; Burks et al., 2009; Benjamin, Choi, & Strickland, 2010; Ifcher & Zarghamee, 2011).”
• Revisiting the Evidence for a Cardinal Treatment of Ordinal Variables (2015, unknown): “  In  the  same  line,  Ifcher  and  Zarghamee (2011)  investigate  if happiness matters for time preferences by using happiness  as one of the controls in an OLS regression framework.”
• The Objective Benefits of Subjective Well-Being (2013, background): “In survey and experimental evidence, Ifcher and Zarghamee (2011a) found that subjective well-being and positive affect were associated with less preference for consumption in the present relative to the future. Using a randomized assignment experiment, they observed that among the group where greate”
• Transparency, Reproducibility, and the Credibility of Economics Research (2018, unknown): “One of the replicated studies (Ifcher and Zarghamee 2011) originally showed subjects a clip of comedian Robin William to test if happiness (positive affect) impacts time preference.”
• How does happiness relate to economic behaviour? A review of the literature (2017, background): “Ifcher and Zarghamee (2011) , who inuced positive and neutral moods in subjects and then asked them o choose between smaller-sooner and larger-later payoffs, found hose in the positive mood had a greater preference to wait for the arger-later rewards. Implementing a similar setting but with hypoheti”