Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34966 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3674
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper considers the relationship between the economic concept of time preference and relevant concepts from psychology and biology. Using novel data from a time diary study conducted in Ireland that combined detailed psychometric testing with medical testing and real-time bio-tracking, we examine the distribution of a number of psychometric measures linked to the economic concept of time preferences and test the extent to which these measures form coherent clusters and the degree to which these clusters are related to underlying biological substrates. The paper finds that financial discounting is related to a range of psychological variables including consideration of future consequences, self-control, conscientiousness, extraversion, and experiential avoidance as well as being predicted by heart rate variability and blood pressure.
Subjects: 
Time preferences
day reconstruction study
economics and psychology
economics and biology
JEL: 
C81
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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