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Title Modernisation and Time Preferences in Tanzania: Evidence from a Large-Scale Elicitation Exercise
Full text https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/modernisation-and-time-preferences-in-tanzania-evidence-from-a-la
Date 2012
Author(s) D'Exelle, Ben; van Campenhout, Bjorn; Lecoutere, Els
Abstract 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.
Subject(s) Life Science
Language en
Relation https://edepot.wur.nl/540123
Type of publication info:eu-repo/semantics/article; Article/Letter to editor; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Format text/html
Source Journal of Development Studies 48 (2012) 4; ISSN: 0022-0388
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess; Wageningen University & Research
Identifier 10.1080/00220388.2011.604411
Repository Wageningen - University of Wageningen
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