20 July 2022

Surveying Pure Time Preference among the Swiss Electorate for Intergenerational Social Cost Benefit Analysis (research proposal)

During my fourth semester of studying political science at the University of Zurich, I attended a Public Choice seminar titled "Risk Preferences and Economic Development", which was run by Philipp Kerler. One of the many topics we touched upon was time discounting, which I was immediately interested in because of its importance in the context of longtermism, so I picked time discounting as topic for the research proposal we had to write.

This is the link to my first research proposal in political science: Surveying Pure Time Preference among the Swiss Electorate for Intergenerational Social Cost Benefit Analysis


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