A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms …

-post costs of poor planning. We show that, given a commitment device, people self-impose deadlines that are binding but require … theory predicts. For example, monetary incentives for accurate prediction ameliorate the planning fallacy while incentives …

and length of financial planning horizon, smokers are more impatient. However, neither of these measures is significantly … time preference and self-control, i.e., impulsivity and financial planning, are more closely related to the smoking …

estimates show that planning behavior can explain the differences in savings and why some people arrive close to retirement with …

-contingent, planning problem, which may involve costly deliberation in every state of nature, and by letting the decision-maker deliberate …

the effect of a simple scalable planning intervention on a repeated behavior using a randomized design involving 877 … weeks. In contrast to recent studies, we find that the planning intervention did not have a positive effect on behavior and … planning is helpful and despite clear evidence that they engaged with the planning process …