Modernisation and Time Preferences in Tanzania: Evidence from a Large-Scale Elicitation Exercise
Assumptions about individual time preferences are important for explanations of poverty and development. Data from a large-scale elicitation exercise in Tanzania show significantly higher levels of impatience in urban areas than in rural areas. This result remains robust to adding controls for socio...
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| author | D'Exelle, Ben Van Campenhout, Bjorn Lecoutere, Els |
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| description | Assumptions about individual time preferences are important for explanations of poverty and development. Data from a large-scale elicitation exercise in Tanzania show significantly higher levels of impatience in urban areas than in rural areas. This result remains robust to adding controls for socio-economic differences between rural and urban areas, which possibly correlate with time preferences. We attribute this to differences in ‘modernisation’ between urban and rural areas, with modernisation leading to increased impatience. This is corroborated by the observed positive correlation between impatience and education; the latter being an important vehicle of modernisation for traditional societies in Tanzania. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1530912024-11-15T08:52:28Z Modernisation and Time Preferences in Tanzania: Evidence from a Large-Scale Elicitation Exercise D'Exelle, Ben Van Campenhout, Bjorn Lecoutere, Els urban population rural population socio-economic development poverty development Assumptions about individual time preferences are important for explanations of poverty and development. Data from a large-scale elicitation exercise in Tanzania show significantly higher levels of impatience in urban areas than in rural areas. This result remains robust to adding controls for socio-economic differences between rural and urban areas, which possibly correlate with time preferences. We attribute this to differences in ‘modernisation’ between urban and rural areas, with modernisation leading to increased impatience. This is corroborated by the observed positive correlation between impatience and education; the latter being an important vehicle of modernisation for traditional societies in Tanzania. 2012-04 2024-10-01T13:55:37Z 2024-10-01T13:55:37Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153091 en Limited Access Informa UK Limited D'Exelle, Ben; Van Campenhout, Bjorn; Lecoutere, Els 2012. Modernisation and Time Preferences in Tanzania: Evidence from a Large-Scale Elicitation Exercise. Journal of Development Studies 48(4) : 564-580 |
| spellingShingle | urban population rural population socio-economic development poverty development D'Exelle, Ben Van Campenhout, Bjorn Lecoutere, Els Modernisation and Time Preferences in Tanzania: Evidence from a Large-Scale Elicitation Exercise |
| title | Modernisation and Time Preferences in Tanzania: Evidence from a Large-Scale Elicitation Exercise |
| title_full | Modernisation and Time Preferences in Tanzania: Evidence from a Large-Scale Elicitation Exercise |
| title_fullStr | Modernisation and Time Preferences in Tanzania: Evidence from a Large-Scale Elicitation Exercise |
| title_full_unstemmed | Modernisation and Time Preferences in Tanzania: Evidence from a Large-Scale Elicitation Exercise |
| title_short | Modernisation and Time Preferences in Tanzania: Evidence from a Large-Scale Elicitation Exercise |
| title_sort | modernisation and time preferences in tanzania evidence from a large scale elicitation exercise |
| topic | urban population rural population socio-economic development poverty development |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153091 |
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