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. …

some age, the impatience outweighs the habit concerns so that consumption starts to decrease. We derive the optimal …

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

impatience, especially difficulties with delaying gratification, in several important economic choices. There is strong evidence …

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

countries. This paper examines how access to formal banking (or lack thereof), impatience and self-control are correlated with … individuals' decisions to join RoSCAs. The paper employs an incentivized experiment to elicit impatience and a questionnaire to … partially (self-control but not impatience) correlates with the RoSCA participation decision. Conditional on RoSCA participation …

individually determine stationarity, the common difference effect and its converse; constant, decreasing and increasing impatience …