Economic analysis has said little about how an individual's cognitive skills (CS's) are related to the individual's preferences in different choice domains, such as risk-taking or saving, and how preferences in different domains are related to each other. Using a sample of 1,000 trainee truckers...

My own behavior baffles me. For I find myself not doing what I really want to do but doing what I really loathe.ʺ Saint Paul What behavior can be explained using the hypothesis that the agent faces temptation but is otherwise a standard rational agentʺ? In earlier work, GulPesendorfer [2001]...

We collected personality (Big Five) and demographic characteristics, and ran incentivized experiments measuring cognitive skills (non-verbal IQ, numeracy, backward induction/planning), and economic (time, risk) preferences, with 100 students at a small public undergraduate liberal arts college...