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. 2018 May 9;56(2):117–140. doi: 10.1007/s11166-018-9279-1

Table 4.

Estimated discount functions

Constant discounting Proportional discounting Power discounting Dual exponential discounting Periodic discounting
Health δ = 0.022
[−0.063, 0.392]
κ = 2849.7
[0.794, 2849.7]
α = 0.467
[−0.16,2.285]
r = 0.097
[0.00,0.172]
ρ = 0.183
[−0.184,1.084]
Money δ = 0.065
[0.00, 0.298]
κ = 2.404
[0.226, 2849.7]
α = 0.493
[0.00,1.381]
r = 0.108
[0.083,0.137]
ρ = 0.304
[0.00,0.722]

The table shows the medians of the individual estimates with the interquartile range (IQR) in square brackets