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SUBMITTER: Carvalho LS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5167530 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Carvalho Leandro S LS Meier Stephan S Wang Stephanie W SW
The American economic review 20160201 2
We study the effect of financial resources on decision-making. Low-income U.S. households are randomly assigned to receive an online survey before or after payday. The survey collects measures of cognitive function and administers risk and intertemporal choice tasks. The study design generates variation in cash, checking and savings balances, and expenditures. Before-payday participants behave as if they are more present-biased when making intertemporal choices about monetary rewards but not whe ...[more]