Future events are uncertain by their very nature. Therefore, people's risk preferences are likely to play a role in the … people's risk taking behavior is indeed a significant determinant of their time discounting behavior: Greater departures from …

Despite the intuition that risk preferences affect intertemporal choice because the future is uncertain, time … that risk preferences are fully controlled for in the estimation of time discounting and no longer act as a confounder … despite accounting for the utility curvature—the established approach to control for risk preferences—about 43% of the …