"Some individuals borrow extensively on their credit cards. This paper tests whether present-biased time preferences correlate with credit card borrowing. In a field study, we elicit individual time preferences with incentivized choice experiments, and match resulting time preference measures to individual credit reports and annual tax returns. The results indicate that present-biased individuals are more likely to have credit card debt, and to have significantly higher amounts of credit card debt, controlling for disposable income, other socio-demographics, and credit constraints."
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Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger, "Present-biased preferences and credit card borrowing." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2, no. 1 (2010): 193-210.
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