کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5056858 1476558 2016 15 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Time discounting, present biases, and health-related behaviors: Evidence from Japan
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
تخفیف زمانی، تعصبات موجود و رفتارهای مرتبط با سلامت: شواهد از ژاپن
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک (عمومی)
چکیده انگلیسی

Human health is considered the outcome of intertemporal choices under tradeoffs between a small immediate reward and a larger delayed reward. Health-related behaviors are thus affected by personal time preferences. Based on an Internet-based survey conducted on Japanese adults, we contribute to the literature by incorporating the multifaceted nature of time discounting in an analysis of the associations between time preference and health-related behaviors. We find that, first, less patient respondents tend to exhibit worse health-related attributes. Second, present bias, which is measured by the degree of declining impatience, is positively associated with unhealthy behaviors for naïve respondents, who are unaware of their self-control problem. Third, such associations cannot be found in sophisticates, who are aware of that. As a policy implication, direct intervention policies, including “nudging,” are more effective than a commitment device provision in correcting the unhealthy behaviors due to present bias. Fourth, the sign effect, wherein future losses are discounted at a lower rate than future gains, is negatively associated with unhealthy outcomes, although at weak statistical significance levels.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Economics & Human Biology - Volume 21, May 2016, Pages 122-136
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