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Country-level estimates of patience

Estimates measured in standard deviations from the global distribution, where 0 is the average. Positive values reflect more patience than the world average. Values
shown correspond to country-level averages.

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Source: Falk, Becker, Dohmen, Enke, Huffman, and Sunde (2018) - Global Preferences Survey

Note: Patience defined as "willingness to give up something that is beneficial for you today in order to benefit more from that in the future". Estimates come from combining quantitative and qualitative
survey evidence. See source for more details.