Response times contain information about economically relevant but unobserved variables like willingness to pay, preference intensity, quality, or happiness. Here, we provide a general characterization of the properties of latent variables that can be detected using response time data. Our...

This paper aims to provide a representation theorem for consumption stream in the simplex in continuous time, by using the weaker axiom of ”Agree with,” the strong axiom of ”Preferential Independence”, and the axioms of ”Separability” and ”Measurability” on the simplex,...

Following early economist Francis Y. Edgeworth's proposal to measure people's hedonic experiences as they go about their daily lives, we use a smartphone app that over eight years randomly asked a panel of 30, 936 UK residents (N = 2, 235, 733) about their momentary feelings and activities to...