There is an increasing policy commitment to address the avoidable burdens of unhealthy
diet, overweight and obesity. However, to design effective policies, it is important to …

Although obesity is a result of processes operating at multiple levels, most forms result from
decision-making behavior. The aim of this review was to examine the candidacy of temporal …

The first major insurance expansion of the Affordable Care Act–a provision requiring
insurers to allow dependents to remain on parents' health insurance until turning 26–took …

The Declaration of Independence states that all people are endowed with certain
unalienable rights, and that among these is the pursuit of happiness. But is happiness …

We investigate the predictive power of survey-elicited time preferences. The discount factor
elicited from choice experiments using real payments predicts various health, energy, and …

In 2006, Massachusetts passed health care reform legislation designed to achieve nearly
universal coverage through a combination of insurance market reforms, mandates, and …

Investments in energy efficiency entail uncertainty, and when faced with uncertainty
consumers have been shown to behave according to prospect theory: preferences are …

Are impulsive behaviors an adaptive response to living in harsh or unpredictable
environments? Formal models help address this question by providing cost–benefit …

Time preferences have been recognized by numerous studies as an important driver of a
number of healthy and environmentally-friendly behaviors. In this study, we first examined if …

This study uses a dynamic discrete choice model to examine the degree of present bias and
naivete about present bias in individuals' health care decisions. Clinical guidelines exist for …