| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w17483 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 17483 |
| Impatience, Incentives, and Obesity | |
| Charles J. Courtemanche; Garth Heutel; Patrick McAlvanah | |
| 发表日期 | 2011-10-06 |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper explores the relationship between time preferences, economic incentives, and body mass index (BMI). Using data from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we first show that greater impatience increases BMI even after controlling for demographic, human capital, and occupational characteristics as well as income and risk preference. Next, we provide evidence of an interaction effect between time preference and food prices, with cheaper food leading to the largest weight gains among those exhibiting the most impatience. The interaction of changing economic incentives with heterogeneous discounting may help explain why increases in BMI have been concentrated amongst the right tail of the distribution, where the health consequences are especially severe. Lastly, we model time-inconsistent preferences by computing individuals'quasi-hyperbolic discounting parameters (β and δ). Both long-run patience (δ) and present-bias (β) predict BMI, suggesting obesity is partly attributable to rational intertemporal tradeoffs but also partly to time inconsistency. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Behavioral Economics ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w17483 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/575158 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Charles J. Courtemanche,Garth Heutel,Patrick McAlvanah. Impatience, Incentives, and Obesity. 2011. |
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| w17483.pdf（421KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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