Ikeda, Shinsuke; Kang, Myong-Il; Ohtake, Fumio - In: Journal of Health Economics 29 (2010) 2, pp. 268-284
Analysis of a broad survey of Japanese adults confirms that time discounting relates to body weight, not only via impatience, but also via hyperbolic discounting, proxied by inclination toward procrastination, and the sign effect, where future negative payoffs are discounted at a lower rate than...