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Incentivizing Behavioral Change: The Role of Time Preferences
Social Science Research Network, 2020 How should the design of incentives vary with agent time preferences? We develop two predictions. First, “bundling” the payment function over time – specifically by making the payment for future effort increase in current effort – is more effective if ...
S. Aggarwal +2 more
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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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Consumers' Choice Behavior for Cisgenic Food: Exploring the Role of Time Preferences
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2020 This paper aims at extending current knowledge on consumer choice behavior on food produced through the application of NBT. We explore whether consumer time preferences and socio-economic factors may have a role in affecting choice behavior involving ...
E. Marchi, A. Cavaliere, A. Banterle
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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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Investors' time preferences and takeover performance
International Review of Financial Analysis, 2020 We investigate investors' time preferences and takeover outcomes in a cross-disciplinary international study. We use a cultural measure on long-term orientation (LTO) to capture investors' time preferences.
Wolfgang Breuer +2 more
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