The Determinants of Discounting in Intergenerational Decision-Making
2021
We investigate discounting behavior in situations where both intertemporal and social discounting occur simultaneously. Situations of intergenerational conflicts are characterized by both time delay and social distance and can be interpreted either as a combination of current donations with delegated investments for others or of current investments for one’s own and future donations to others. Due to well-known self-control problems with respect to investments for one’s own, the second interpretation implies overall higher discounting in intergenerational decision problems than the first one. We show experimentally that this second interpretation seems to prevail for intergenerational decision-making in practice, which is a hint at a corresponding significant effect of self-control problems. This problem can be mitigated by adequate framing supporting the first view of intergenerational decision problems described above. Our findings are relevant for policy makers and researchers alike.
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