Do Discount Rates Change over Time? Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
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Field experiment; hyperbolic discounting; intertemporal choice;All these keywords.
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- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
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