Adolescent Time Preferences Predict Lifetime Outcomes

By Bart H. H. Golsteyn, H. Grönqvist, L. Lindahl. 2014

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How to measure time preferences in children: a comparison of two methods (2015, background): “Most importantly, Golsteyn et al. (2014) find that children’s time preferences measured at age 13 predict economically and socially relevant behavior in adulthood.”
Behavioural Insights and (Un)healthy Dietary Choices: a Review of Current Evidence (2018, result): “Regarding obesity, a positive correlation between BMI and higher temporal discount rates has been shown in several studies (Golsteyn et al. 2014; Zhang and Rashad 2008), but a recent review concludes that current evidence regarding this link remains inconclusive (McClelland et al. 2016).”
Fostering Patience in the Classroom: Results from Randomized Educational Intervention (2018, background): “…who displayed patience and self-control as a child or adolescent have better outcomes in terms of health, performance in school, labor market success, social competence, and lifetime income (e.g., Mischel, Shoda, and Rodriguez 1989; Moffitt et al. 2011; Golsteyn, Grönqvist, and Lindahl 2014).”
Global Evidence on Economic Preferences* (2018, unknown): “Further unpacking these relationships, negative reciprocity is positively correlated with the number of large domesticable animals, broadly in line with the culture of honor hypothesis (Nisbett and Cohen, 1996; Grosjean, 2014). On the other hand, those bio-geographic conditions that are conducive to”