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Roel van Veldhuizen . Photo

Roel van Veldhuizen

Senior lecturer

Roel van Veldhuizen . Photo

Time Pressure Preferences

Author

  • Thomas Buser
  • Roel van Veldhuizen
  • Yang Zhong

Summary, in English

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.

Department/s

  • Department of Economics

Publishing year

2025

Language

English

Pages

1909-1924

Publication/Series

Management Science

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

INFORMS Inst.for Operations Res.and the Management Sciences

Topic

  • Economics

Keywords

  • time pressure
  • experiment
  • career choice
  • validated survey measures

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1526-5501