We examine the relationship between trait self-control and body weight. Data from a
population representative household survey reveal that limited self-control is strongly …

Quasi-hyperbolic discounting is one of the most well-known and widely-used models to
capture selfcontrol problems in the economics literature. The underlying assumption of this …

Healthy food choices are a canonical example used to illustrate the importance of time
preferences in behavioral economics. However, the literature lacks a direct demonstration …

Many studies which describe the relationship between obesity and economic preference
rely on healthy, clinically‐irrelevant populations. Instead, we study economic decision …

Background: Intertemporal decision-making, which involves making choices between
outcomes at different time points, is a fundamental aspect of human behavior …

Intertemporal choice experiments are increasingly implemented to make inference about
discounting and marginal utility, yet little is known about the predictive power of resulting …

This paper analyses the impact of a healthy food nudge intervention on purchases of 1590
customers of a supermarket chain's loyalty program in Uruguay through a randomized …

Purpose Present bias (PB) is a cognitive bias that stimulates the individual decision-maker
to favour the present reward even over the higher reward in the future to avoid the …

We propose a Markov Decision Process Model that blends ideas from Psychological
research and Economics to study decision-making in individuals with self-control problems …

We study the heritability of risk, uncertainty, and time preferences using a field experiment
with a large sample of adult twins. We also offer a meta-analysis of existing findings. Our …