Showing 1 - 10 of 277
Time preferences drive decisions in many economic situations, such as investment contexts or salary negotiations. These … situations are characterized by a very short time frame for decision making. Preferences are potentially susceptible to the … confounding effects of time pressure, as proposed by dual-systems theory (Evans, 2006; Kahneman and Frederick, 2002). Results of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523286
design a laboratory experiment to study the conditions under which the expectations channel operates. Our results indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509128
experiment is related to children’s risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010401354
a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529903
, because the economics literature on group decision making has, so far, assumed homogeneity within groups. In a lab experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019615
Financial literacy and economic preferences are considered to be important drivers of health, income, and general well-being. In this paper we bridge the gap between studies on financial literacy and research on economic preferences by how they interplay with each other and the field behavior of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203420
We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three years later at the end of middle school, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012591184
psychological measure of grit, with economic measures of impatience and decreasing impatience (time inconsistency), respectively, in … the general population. We find that impatience is associated with grit through the PoE component. No association of time … and grit are predictive for both outcomes, but this is not the case for time inconsistency. Our findings suggest that it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335460
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009234314
parameter model ; field experiment ; time preferences … on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on inter-temporal choice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009736596