Patience and risk-taking - two cultural traits that steer intertemporal decision-making - are fundamental to human … combine PISA tests with the Global Preference Survey. We find that opposing effects of patience (positive) and risk …

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 …

dimensions that are highly predictive of adolescents' later labor-market success: math grades, patience/social skills, and labor …

We examine German stock corporations' executive compensation's growth over the last 15 years. Furthermore, we … investigate how executive compensation might develop in the future. Over the past 15 years we observe dynamic growth of executive … these high growth rates in the past is the introduction of long-term incentives which has been technically easily …

In this paper, Turkish high and persistent inflation experience and its impact on inflation uncertainty and growth have … impacts on growth in Turkey in the analyzed period. However, inflation uncertainty has much more negative effect on growth in … comparison with inflation. In other words, while 1% increase in inflation rate decrease growth 0.56%, an 1% increase in inflation …

This paper attempts to test Wagnerian and Keynesian hypotheses by examining the relationship between economic growth … expenditure) from economic growth to disaggregated public expenditure that total current, investment, transfer expenditures, non … casual relationship between economic growth and total public expenditures, they do support the existence of long run …