Time discounting and economic decision-making in the older population

Journal of the Economics of Ageing - Tập 14 - Trang 100121 - 2019
David Huffman1, Raimond Maurer2, Olivia S. Mitchell3
1Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, 4901 Wesley Posvar Hall, 230 South Bouquet Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States
2Finance Department, Goethe University, Theodor-W.-Adorno Platz 3, 60323 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
3The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Business Economics & Policy, 3620 Locust Walk, St 3000 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States

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