Intertemporal choice and income regularity: Non-fungibility in a lab-in-the-field experiment
Motivated by evidence of mental accounting, this paper tests whether the choice of when to be paid depends on the income type. A lab-in-the-field experiment in Kenya asked dairy cooperative members to allocate both their regular milk payments and an irregular windfall between two dates. We find that...
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| Format: | Artículo preliminar |
| Language: | Inglés |
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2017
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147901 |
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