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D'Exelle, Ben 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9332-5223, Van Campenhout, Bjorn and Lecoutere, Els
(2012)
Modernization and Time Preferences in Tanzania: Evidence from a Large-Scale Elicitation Exercise.
Journal of Development Studies, 48 (4).
pp. 564-580.
ISSN 0022-0388
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 ‘modernization’ between urban and rural areas, with modernization leading to increased impatience. This is corroborated by the observed positive correlation between impatience and education; the latter being an important vehicle of modernization to traditional societies in Tanzania.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Experimental Economics (former - to 2017) Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Gender and Development Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Impact Evaluation Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Behavioural Economics Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Environment, Resources and Conflict Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Behavioural and Experimental Development Economics |
| Depositing User: | Ben D'Exelle |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Apr 2011 07:42 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jun 2023 23:35 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/29249 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00220388.2011.604411 |
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