-aggregation makes the decision interval of the agent an important parameter to estimate. We find that time-aggregation can significantly …

We study procrastination in the context of a field experiment involving students who must exert costly effort to …-imposed deadlines, which appear to be associated with students' self-reported psychological characteristics and cost of time. We … structurally estimate students' present-bias and cost of time by fitting the experimental data to a stylized stopping time choice …

for risk and patience. Comparing our estimates of the general model to estimates of models which ignore heterogeneity in … about own-earnings, risk aversion, and patience cannot explain gender gaps in major choice …

Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are … within-country disparities. We use social-media data - Facebook interests - to construct novel regional measures of patience … within Italy and the United States. Patience is strongly positively associated with student achievement in both countries …

when a decision is complex, they implicitly treat different time delays to some degree alike. By experimentally measuring … explains various core empirical regularities, such as why people often appear very impatient, why per-period impatience is … choices frequently violate transitivity. Second, impatience is context-dependent: discounting is substantially more hyperbolic …