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The today and tomorrow of kids: Time preferences and educational outcomes of children
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This article investigated the distribution of children's time preferences along gender and racial lines and found that boys are more impatient than girls and black children are more antsy than white children, and that impatience has a direct correlation with behavior that is predictive of economic success.About:
This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 2011-12-01. It has received 207 citations till now.read more
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A Female Style in Corporate Leadership? Evidence from Quotas
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of gender quotas for corporate board seats on corporate decisions and found that affected firms undertook fewer workforce reductions than comparison firms, increasing relative labor costs and employment levels and reducing short-term profits.
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Impatience and Uncertainty: Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior
TL;DR: The authors found that impatient children and adolescents are more likely to spend money on alcohol and cigarettes, have a higher body mass index, are less likely to save money and show worse conduct at school.
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A Female Style in Corporate Leadership? Evidence from Quotas
David A. Matsa,Amalia R. Miller +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of gender quotas for corporate board seats on corporate decisions and found that affected firms undertake fewer workforce reductions than comparison firms, increasing relative labor costs and employment levels and reducing short-term profits.
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Impatience and Uncertainty: Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior
TL;DR: This paper found that impatient children and adolescents are more likely to spend money on alcohol and cigarettes, have a higher body mass index, are less likely to save money and show worse conduct at school.
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U.S. High School Graduation Rates: Patterns and Explanations
TL;DR: The authors survey the evidence on patterns in U.S. high school graduation rates over the period 1970-2010 and report the results of new research conducted to fill in holes in the evidence.
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
TL;DR: The authors argued that rational decisions are not the product of logic alone - they require the support of emotion and feeling, drawing on his experience with neurological patients affected with brain damage, Dr Damasio showed how absence of emotions and feelings can break down rationality.
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Delay of gratification in children
TL;DR: The nature of this type of future-oriented self-control and the psychological processes that underlie it are analyzed and the particular types of preschool delay situations diagnostic for predicting aspects of cognitive and social competence later in life are specified.
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Separate Neural Systems Value Immediate and Delayed Monetary Rewards
TL;DR: The authors examined the neural correlates of time discounting while subjects made a series of choices between monetary reward options that varied by delay to delivery and demonstrated that two separate systems are involved in such decisions.
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Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants and Behavioral Consequences
TL;DR: The authors found that gender, age, height, and parental background have an economically significant impact on willingness to take risks, and the question about risk taking in general generates the best all-round predictor of risky behavior.
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Some empirical evidence on dynamic inconsistency
TL;DR: In this paper, individual discount rates for losses and gains were estimated from survey evidence and they were found to vary inversely with the size of the reward and the length of time to be waited.