Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Colombo, Mattia; Triviza, Eleftheria - 2024
This study examines how early-life exposure to food scarcity influences individuals' long-term time preferences and … scarcity during early childhood develop higher levels of patience later in life and tend to hold more (precautionary) savings …, conditional on income. Our findings suggest that exposure to protein scarcity during the first years of life and in utero can …