2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Economic analysis of time discounting anomalies and intertemporal choice behavior: Implications for debt holding, obesity, and smoking
| Project/Area Number |
21330046
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Economic theory
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
IKEDA Shinsuke 大阪大学, 社会経済研究所, 教授 (70184421)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
OHTAKE Fumio 大阪大学, 社会経済研究所, 教授 (50176913)
TANAKA Keiichi 首都大学東京, 社会(科) 学研究科 (00381442)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 時間割引 / 双曲割引 / 行動経済学 / 肥満 / 負債 / 喫煙 / 選択 / 健康 |
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| Research Abstract |
In this five-year long research project, I have investigated on how people's time preferences and discount rates are formed, and how various time discounting properties, including hyperbolic discounting, affect people's actual behavior based on intertemporal decision makings, such as obesity/overeating, debt holding, smoking, health-keeping behavior.
The research results are summarized in the form of academic articles published in standard refereed journals, such as Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamic & Control, Health Economics. Based on the insights, I wrote a monograph, titled Self-Destructive Choices, to which the 55th Nikkei-Economic Book Award were awarded. A Korean-translated version of the book was published in Korea.
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