Data and Code for: Waiting to Choose: The Role of Deliberation in Intertemporal Choice

We study the impact of deliberation on intertemporal choices. Using multiple experiments, including a field study in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we show that the introduction of waiting periods –that temporally separate information about choice sets from choices themselves– cause substantially less myopic decisions. These results cannot be captured by models of exponential discounting nor present bias. Comparing the effects of waiting periods to making choices over future time periods, the former has a larger impact on reducing myopia. Our results highlight the role of deliberation in decision-making and have implications for consumer finance policy and intervention design.<br><br>This deposit contains all the source data, code, and data collection instruments for our paper.