Time Pressure Preferences

Open Access
Authors
Publication date 03-2025
Journal Management Science
Volume | Issue number 71 | 3
Pages (from-to) 1909-1924
Number of pages 16
Organisations
  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
Abstract

Many professional and educational settings require individuals to be willing and able to perform under time pressure. We use a laboratory experiment and survey data to study preferences for working under time pressure. We make three main contributions. First, we develop an incentivized method to measure preferences for working under time pressure and document that participants in our laboratory experiment are averse to working under time pressure on average. Second, we show that there is substantial heterogeneity in the degree of time pressure aversion across individuals and that these individual preferences can be partially captured by simple survey questions. Third, we include these questions in a survey of bachelor's degree students and a nationally representative survey panel and show that time pressure preferences predict career choices and income. Our results indicate that individual differences in time pressure aversion could be an influential factor in determining labor market outcomes.

Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.02078
Published at https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=b27bb3c4-8479-3a14-8f49-d12c75188c52
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