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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 This research explores the origins of observed differences in time preference across countries and regions. Exploiting a natural experiment associated with the expansion of suitable crops for cultivation in the course of the Columbian Exchange, the research establishes that pre-industrial agro-climatic characteristics which were conducive to higher ...
Galor, Oded, Özak, Ömer
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Risk Preferences are Not Time Preferences: Comment [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 Andreoni and Sprenger (in press) report evidence that distinct utility functions govern choices under certainty and risk. I investigate the robustness of their result to the experimental design. I find that the effect disappears completely when a multiple price list is used instead of a convex time budget design.
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Economic Holobiont: Influence of Parasites, Microbiota and Chemosignals on Economic Behavior
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2018 The article is a perspective on utilization of microorganisms and chemosignals in studying human economic behavior. Research in biological roots of economic development has already confirmed that parasitic pressure influenced the creation and development
Petr Houdek
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Children, 2020 The prevalence of childhood obesity continues to increase. Screen time, one of the most documented reasons for the obesogenic environment, enhances childhood obesity, since advertisements for unhealthy food products are still broadcast on channels for ...
Daniel Campos +6 more
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Why do professional athletes have different time preferences than non-athletes? [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2011 The objective of this paper is to measure and compare the subjective time discounting of professional athletes and non-athletes. By using a questionnaire, we found higher subjective discounting for professional athletes than for non-athletes.
Alex Krumer, Tal Shavit, Mosi Rosenboim
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Indecisiveness on risk preference and time preference choices. Does financial literacy matter?
Cogent Psychology, 2019 The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between financial literacy and decisiveness in making risk preference and time preference choices by university students.
Calvin Mudzingiri +3 more
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Time-use preference and adaptation in relational exchanges
SA Journal of Human Resource Management, 2021 Orientation: Similarity of leaders and members encourage positive relational exchanges. However, the role of different time-use preferences, and how leaders and members adapt to the preferences of others in relational exchanges have not yet been studied.
Angela Glover, Charlene Lew
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Time Preferences, Illness, and Death
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022 This paper investigates the power of time preference to predict illness and premature mortality in adulthood. Using a unique Swedish cohort of 12,956 individuals born in 1953, interviewed in 1966, and followed with register data up to 2018, the paper reports that more patient adolescents are 17-21% less likely to die before the age of 65 years.
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Managers’ risk and time preferences in economic behavior: Review from the experiments
Journal of International Economics and Management, 2022 This survey reviews the recent developments in experimental studies on managers’ preferences, with a focus on issues of experimental design. We concentrate our attention on studies that measure risk and time preferences.
Kim Huong Trang, Quang Nguyen
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Time Preferences and Bargaining [PDF]
Econometrica, 2018 This paper presents an analysis of general time preferences in the canonical Rubinstein (1982) model of bargaining, allowing for arbitrarily history-dependent strategies. I derive a simple sufficient structure for optimal punishments and thereby fully characterize (i) the set of equilibrium outcomes for any given preference profile, and (ii) the set of
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