Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/242788 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Centre for Land Tenure Studies Working Paper No. 08/20
Publisher: 
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Centre for Land Tenure Studies (CLTS), Ås
Abstract: 
The appropriate way to empirically estimate time-dated utility and time preferences based on experimental data has been subject to controversy. Our study assesses whether within-subject magnitude treatments are more appropriately modeled through utility curvature, variable asset integration or as magnitude effects in the discounting function. We find that modeling magnitude effects through utility curvature at the same time as allowing for variable asset integration gives theoretically more consistent parameter ranges than including magnitude effects directly in the discounting function. Models with constant discount rates and limited and constant asset integration are rejected. More restricted but variable asset integration gives close to linear utility functions but such models are less robust than a matching fund model which gives a better fit and is robust and stable across multiple samples.
Subjects: 
Discounting
Time-dated utility
Utility curvature
Asset integration
field experiment
Ethiopia
JEL: 
C93
D91
ISBN: 
978-82-7490-291-6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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