TY  - RPRT
A1  - Ziemann, Niklas
T1  - You will receive your money next week!
BT  - Experimental evidence on the role of Future-Time Reference for intertemporal decision-making
T2  - CEPA Discussion Papers
N2  - Against the background of the increasingly discussed “Linguistic Saving Hypothesis” (Chen, 2013), I studied whether the targeted use of a present tense (close tense) and a future tense (distant tense) within the same language have an impact on intertemporal decision-making. In a monetarily incentivized laboratory experiment in Germany, I implemented two different treatments on intertemporal choices. The treatments differed in the tense in which I referred to future rewards. My results show that individuals prefer to a greater extent rewards which are associated with a present tense (close tense). This result is in line with my prediction and the first empirical support for the Linguistic Saving Hypothesis within one language. However, this result holds exclusively for males. Females seem to be unaffected by the linguistic manipulation. I discuss my findings in the context of “gender-as-culture” as well as their potential policy-implications.
T3  - CEPA Discussion Papers - 56 
KW  - Experiment
KW  - Intertemporal Choice
KW  - Language
KW  - Linguistic Saving Hypothesis
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-563983
SN  - 2628-653X
IS  - 56
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -