Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/316335 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 449
Version Description: 
This version: February 2025
Publisher: 
University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Zurich
Abstract: 
Response times contain information about economically relevant but unobserved variables like willingness to pay, preference intensity, quality, or happiness. Here, we provide a general characterization of the properties of latent variables that can be detected using response time data. Our characterization unifies and generalizes results in the literature, solves identification problems of binary response models, and has many new applications. We apply the result to test and support the hypothesis that marginal happiness is decreasing in income, a principle that is commonly accepted but so far not established empirically.
Subjects: 
response times
chronometric effect
binary response model
non-parametric identification
decreasing marginal happiness
JEL: 
C14
D60
D91
I31
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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