“Save for a rainy day” or “live in the moment”? How does uncertainty associated with earthquakes affect people’s time preferences? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Uncertainty caused by frequent earthquakes can permanently reshape people’s time preferences, forcing them to confront the question of whether to “save for a rainy day” or “live in the moment.” Focusing on China, this study empirically analyzes the ...
Congming Ding, Xueying Yan, Zhiyuan Chen
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Measuring Time Preferences. [PDF]
J Econ Lit, 2020 We review research that measures time preferences—i.e., preferences over intertemporal trade—offs. We distinguish between studies using financial flows, which we call “money earlier or later” (MEL) decisions, and studies that use time-dated consumption/effort.
Cohen J +3 more
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The effects of probiotics on risk and time preferences [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Animal models, human neuroimaging and lesion studies revealed that the gut microbiota can influence the interaction between the central and the enteric nervous systems via the gut–brain axis (GBA) and can affect brain regions linked to basic emotional ...
Aline M. Dantas +4 more
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The Role of Time Preferences in Compliance With COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors in Iran: A Quasi-hyperbolic Discounting Approach [PDF]
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public HealthObjectives: This study aimed to investigate the role of time preferences in compliance with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) preventive behaviors in an adult population of Iran.
Moslem Soofi +4 more
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The cancellation heuristic in intertemporal choice shifts people’s time preferences [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Building on past research in risky decision making, the present research investigated whether the cancellation heuristic is evident in intertemporal choice. Specifically, the cancellation heuristic posits that whenever choice options are partitioned into
Arjun Sengupta, Krishna Savani
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The tell-tale look: viewing time, preferences, and prices. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Even the simplest choices can prompt decision-makers to balance their preferences against other, more pragmatic considerations like price. Thus, discerning people's preferences from their decisions creates theoretical, empirical, and practical challenges.
Brian C Gunia, J Keith Murnighan
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Time preferences are reliable across time-horizons and verbal versus experiential tasks [PDF]
eLife, 2019 Individual differences in delay-discounting correlate with important real world outcomes, for example education, income, drug use, and criminality. As such, delay-discounting has been extensively studied by economists, psychologists and neuroscientists ...
Evgeniya Lukinova +3 more
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Time Preferences and Natural Resource Extraction Behavior: An Experimental Study from Artisanal Fisheries in Zanzibar. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Natural resource users face a trade-off between present and future consumption. Using harmful methods or extracting unsustainably, lowers future consumption.
Aneeque Javaid +4 more
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Optimal DCE design for modelling nonlinear time preferences in EQ-5D-5L valuation studies: exploration of data from Denmark and Peru [PDF]
Health and Quality of Life OutcomesBackground Discrete choice experiment (DCE) methods are an increasingly popular valuation method, particularly for the EQ-5D-5L. While EQ-5D-5L value sets developed using DCE have traditionally assumed linear time preferences, this assumption has been ...
Alice Yu +12 more
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Measurement of Individual Time Preferences Using A Laboratory Approach [PDF]
فصلنامه پژوهشهای اقتصادی ایران, 2023 The precise measurement of individual time preferences in assessing the economic plans that individuals are involved in, in the estimation of social time preferences, in the assessment of environmental and health plans is very crucial.
Mohammad Amin Zandi
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