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Seminar: Vojtech Bartos (University of Munich)
Hunter West 1537 (Economics Dept. Seminar Room) 912 Lexington Avenue, New YorkTitle: 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…