Quasi-hyperbolic discounting predicts impatience over short-run tradeoffs. I present a direct non-laboratory test of … rejection of the permanent income hypothesis and are extremely difficult to reconcile with exponential discounting. The data …

inherently unobservable sources of heterogeneity learning ability and workers' inter-temporal preferences (discounting) both of …

individual discount rate, this paper analyzes whether changes in time discounting can account for differences in body mass … remarkable increase in BMI experienced in recent years. We find some evidence for a link between time discounting and differences … our hypothesis the best chance, we analyze the development of the time discounting proxies that are most strongly related …