Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/323550 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Risk and Uncertainty [ISSN:] 1573-0476 [Volume:] 70 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Springer US [Place:] New York, NY [Year:] 2025 [Pages:] 201-223
Publisher: 
Springer US, New York, NY
Abstract: 
We study the association of the perseverance of effort and the consistency of interests components of the psychological measure of grit with economic measures of impatience and time inconsistency in the general population. We find that impatience is associated with grit through the perseverance of effort component. No association of time inconsistency with grit is found. Predicting participants’ financial and health outcomes and behaviors, we find that impatience and grit are predictive for both outcomes, but this is not the case for time inconsistency. Our findings suggest that it can be beneficial for empirical studies of intertemporal decisions to include economic impatience and psychological grit measures.
Subjects: 
Time preferences
Time inconsistency
Decreasing impatience
Grit
Household finance
Health
JEL: 
D15
G51
I10
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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