Cairns J A
Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill Scotland.
Health Econ. 1994 Jul-Aug;3(4):221-9. doi: 10.1002/hec.4730030404.
This paper reports the results of a study of time preference amongst the general public in the Grampian region of Scotland. The subjects, who were selected randomly from the electoral roll, were offered a series of intertemporal choices. Their responses were used to calculate private financial time preference rates, social non-monetary time preference rates and social financial time preference rates. The paper investigates the relationship between these three measures of time preference in both the short and the long run. It also explores the effects of individual characteristics, including age, and health, on the implicit discount rates.
本文报告了一项关于苏格兰格兰扁地区普通公众时间偏好的研究结果。从选民名单中随机挑选的受试者被提供了一系列跨期选择。他们的回答被用于计算个人财务时间偏好率、社会非货币时间偏好率和社会财务时间偏好率。本文研究了这三种时间偏好衡量指标在短期和长期内的关系。它还探讨了包括年龄和健康状况在内的个人特征对隐含贴现率的影响。
