Time Pressure Preferences
(2024) In Management Science- Abstract
- Many professional and educational settings require individuals to be willingand able to perform under time pressure. We use a laboratory experiment and survey datato study preferences for working under time pressure. We make three main contributions.First, we develop an incentivized method to measure preferences for working under timepressure and document that participants in our laboratory experiment are averse to work-ing under time pressure on average. Second, we show that there is substantial heterogene-ity in the degree of time pressure aversion across individuals and that these individualpreferences can be partially captured by simple survey questions. Third, we include thesequestions in a survey of bachelor’s degree students and a... (More)
- Many professional and educational settings require individuals to be willingand able to perform under time pressure. We use a laboratory experiment and survey datato study preferences for working under time pressure. We make three main contributions.First, we develop an incentivized method to measure preferences for working under timepressure and document that participants in our laboratory experiment are averse to work-ing under time pressure on average. Second, we show that there is substantial heterogene-ity in the degree of time pressure aversion across individuals and that these individualpreferences can be partially captured by simple survey questions. Third, we include thesequestions in a survey of bachelor’s degree students and a nationally representative surveypanel and show that time pressure preferences predict career choices and income. Ourresults indicate that individual differences in time pressure aversion could be an influentialfactor in determining labor market outcomes. (Less)
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- Buser, Thomas ; van Veldhuizen, Roel LU and Zhong, Yang
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- 2024
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- Contribution to journal
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- epub
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- keywords
- time pressure, experiment, career choice, validated survey measures
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- Management Science
- publisher
- Informs
- ISSN
- 1526-5501
- DOI
- 10.1287/mnsc.2023.02078
- language
- English
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- 86347d36-2c80-4daf-bf4f-6d57440d90a1
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