Inequality and Social Discounting
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منابع مشابه
Social discounting.
The amount of money a person was willing to forgo in order to give 75 dollars to another person decreased as a hyperbolic function of the perceived social distance between them. Similar hyperbolic functions have previously been shown to describe both time and probability discounting.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Political Economy
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0022-3808,1537-534X
DOI: 10.1086/518741