Winston, Gordon C.; Kirby, Kris N.; Santiesteban, Mariana - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 2002
Because the rewards of academic performance in college are often delayed, the delay-discounting model of impulsiveness (Ainslie, 1975) predicts that academic performance should tend to decrease as people place less weight on future outcomes. To test this hypothesis, we estimated (hyperbolic)...