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Procrastination, academic success and the effectiveness of a remedial program

De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2014

Procrastination produces harmful effects for human capital investments and studying activities. Using data from a large sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual behaviour of students, considering the delay in finalizing their university enrolment procedure. We...

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Globalization, time-preferences, and populist voting

Aronsson, Thomas; Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie - 2020

model links impatience to voters’ appraisals of an income shock due to globalization that is associated with short-run costs …

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Foundations for Intertemporal Choice

Al-Nowaihi, Ali - 2018

function exhibits declining, constant or increasing impatience. The third function, the generating function, links the speedup …

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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth

Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...

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On the evolutionary stability of the sentiment investor

Antico, Andrea; Bottazzi, Giulio; Giachini, Daniele - 2022

The behavioural finance literature attributes the persistent market misvaluation observed in real data to the presence of deviations from rational thinking of the actors involved. Cognitive biases and the use of simple heuristics can be described using expected utility maximising agents that...

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Optimal time allocation in active retirement

Sánchez Romero, Miguel; Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Alexia - 2019

We set up a lifecycle model of a retired scholar who chooses optimally the time devoted to different activities including physical activity, continued work and social engagement. While time spent in physical activity increases life expectancy, continued scientific publications increases the...

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A General Theory of Time Discounting : The Reference-Time Theory of Intertemporal Choice

Al-Nowaihi, Ali - 2008

effect, delay-speedup asymmetry, apparent intransitivity of time preferences, and non-additivity of time discounting. We …

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Dynamic consistent alpha-maxim expected utility

Beißner, Patrick; Lin, Qian - 2015

We establish a class of fully nonlinear conditional expectations. Similarly to the usage of linear expectations when a probabilistic description of uncertainty is present, we observe analogue quantitative and qualitative properties. The type of nonlinearity captures the agents sentiments of...

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Dynasties and destiny: On the roles of altruism and impatience in the evolution of consumption and bequests

Stark, Oded; Falk, Ita - 2000

We study the joint role of altruism and impatience, and the impact of evolution in the formation of long-term time … relate to altruism and to impatience and we reason that long-lived dynasties will be characterized by a higher degree of … altruism and a lower degree of impatience than short-lived dynasties. …

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Does patience matter for marriage stability? : some evidence from Italy

De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca - 2013

impatience of one standard deviation increases the probability of experiencing divorce by almost one percentage point. Our …

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