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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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impatience. The child’s impatience stems from a delay of gratification experiment, the mother’s from a choice task. Findings …
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In a simple theoretical model we show that impatience affects academic performance through two different channels … consequence, the relationship between impatience and academic success may vary according to how performance is measured. Using … data from a sample of Italian undergraduate students, we find a strong negative relationship between impatience and both …
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We empirically test the relationship between crime and impatience at the individual level exploiting data from the … allows to observe different behaviors sharing impatience as a common latent factor. We use factor analysis to extract this … common factor as a measure for impatience. Estimates from a Logit model suggest a positive association between impatience and …
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We empirically test the relationship between crime and impatience at the individual level exploiting data from the … allows to observe different behaviors sharing impatience as a common latent factor. We use factor analysis to extract this … common factor as a measure for impatience. Estimates from a Logit model suggest a positive association between impatience and …
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