Data and Code for: Eliciting time preferences when income and consumption vary: Theory, validation & application to job search

This project contains data used on time preferences of two samples. The first sample consists of online participants recruited on Prolific (with residence in the US), collected in July 2023. These participants completed time preference elicitation questions following the 'Convex Time Budget' methodology as well as a newly proposed methodology called 'Multiple Lottery Lists'. The purpose was to compare the performance of the two methodologies when background income or consumption varies. The second sample contains job seekers from Edinburgh (Scotland), and the data was collected in 2013/2014. The respondents completed a similar time preference elicitation (MLL) survey with the purpose of studying how time preferences relate to job search behaviour and success. Additionally, this project contains scripts to replicate a number of time preference simulations to demonstrate how variations in income affect responses to different preference elicitation methodologies.

本项目包含两组用于研究时间偏好的实验数据。第一组样本为2023年7月通过Prolific平台招募的美国常住在线参与者，该群体完成了基于凸性时间预算法（Convex Time Budget）与一种新近提出的多彩票列表法（Multiple Lottery Lists，以下简称MLL）的时间偏好诱导问卷。本次实验旨在对比两种偏好诱导方法在背景收入或消费存在变动时的表现。第二组样本为苏格兰爱丁堡的求职者，数据采集于2013年至2014年间，受访者完成了类似的时间偏好诱导（MLL）问卷，以探究时间偏好与求职行为及求职成效之间的关联。此外，本项目还附带了可复现多项时间偏好模拟实验的代码脚本，用以演示收入变动对不同偏好诱导方法下实验应答结果的影响。