Time Preference & Cognition Survey 2009 - 2010
Malawi, 2009 - 2010
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Data file: GGSY_data
GGSY_data.dta: This file contains data from an artefactual field experiment in Malawi that measures time preferences and revision behavior. The sample consists of several hundred wife-husband pairs in rural Malawi. Intertemporal choices are elicited by adapting Andreoni and Sprenger's (2012) convex time budget method, with large real stakes (roughly a month's wages). Subjects decide five potential allocations of money to be disbursed at two points, 61 or 91 days, in the future for the corresponding interest rates: 10%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%. A subset of these subjects was revisited some time prior to the first disbursement at t=61 days and given the opportunity to revise their allocation between sooner or later. Dataset contains N=10,710 decisions (i.e., five allocations and associated interest rate for 2,142 subjects in the study).
| Cases: | 2157 |
| Variables: | 398 |