Economists and psychologists have devised numerous instruments to measure time preferences and have generated a rich … literature examining the extent to which time preferences predict important outcomes; however, we still do not know which … on outcomes, we gather four different time preference measures and test the extent to which they predict both on their …

. Yet, economic theory predicts that the scope for punishment as acting as a deterrent depends on how much individuals … criminals have short time horizons, then it is hard to imagine punishment acting as a key deterrent. This paper provides the … first empirical investigation of the link between time preferences and criminal behavior. Our study is made possible by …

when a multiple price list is used instead of a convex time budget design. Also, the effect is reduced by half when sooner …

criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and …

finding rate and, contrary to what happens with exponential discounting, it can raise the expected lifetime utility of the …

a combination of several traits and interaction effects can describe the time-invariant individual effect in a panel …

personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We … and quality of time parents spend with their children, the mother's IQ and economic preferences, a child's initial … is fairly stable over time at age 7 to 10. Personality profiles that vary systematically with SES might offer an …

We compare different designs that have been used to test for an impact of time horizon on discounting, using real … declining (hyperbolic) discounting, but with other designs find constant or increasing discounting. As a whole, the data are not … consistent with any of these usual candidate discounting assumptions, and they also imply a violation of transitivity. The …