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Happiness and Time Preference: The Effect of Positive Affect in a Random-Assignment Experiment

Full article summary: Ifcher, J., Zarghamee, H., 2011. Happiness and time preference: the effect of positive affect in a random-assignment experiment. American Economic Review 101, 3109-3129.

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