The effect of language on economic behavior : examining the causal link between future tense and time preference in the lab

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Chen, Josie I., He, Tai-Sen, Riyanto, Yohanes Eko
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Social Sciences
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2020
• الموضوعات: Social sciences::Economic theory::Microeconomics; Time Preference; Future Tense
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/142990

Since Chen (2013), a fast-growing body of literature has documented abundant supporting evidence for the linguistic-savings hypothesis. Despite this influx of research, direct causal evidence is limited. In this study, we take advantage of a unique linguistic feature of the Chinese language: speaker...