Seminar: Vojtech Bartos (University of Munich)

Hunter West 1537 (Economics Dept. Seminar Room) 912 Lexington Avenue, New York

Title: Effects of Poverty on Impatience: Preferences or Inattention?  (with Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Ian Levely) Abstract: We study two psychological channels through which poverty may increase impatient behaviour – an effect on time preference and reduced attention. We measured discount rates among farmers in Uganda who made decisions Read more…