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Goals and psychological accounting
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2011
We model how people formulate and evaluate goals to overcome self-control problems. People often attempt to regulate their behavior by evaluating goal-related outcomes separately (in narrow psychological accounts) rather than jointly (in a broad account). To explain this evidence, our theory of...
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Beliefs as a Means of Self-Control? Evidence from a Dynamic Student Survey
Bönisch, Felix; König, Tobias; … - 2024
We repeatedly elicit beliefs about the returns to study effort, in a large university course. A behavioral model of quasi-hyperbolic discounting and malleable beliefs predicts that the dynamics of beliefs mirrors the importance of exerting self-control, such that believed returns increase as the...
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Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines
Ashraf, Nava; Karlan, Dean S.; Yin, Wesley - 2005
We designed a commitment savings product for a Philippine bank and implemented it using a randomized control methodology. The savings product was intended for individuals who want to commit now to restrict access to their savings, and who were sophisticated enough to engage in such a mechanism....
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Motivational Goal Bracketing: An Experiment
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2017
We study in an online, real-effort experiment how the bracketing of non-binding goals affects performance in a work-leisure self-control problem. We externally induce the goal bracket – daily goals or a weekly goal – and within that bracket let subjects set goals for how much they want to...
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Limited self-control and long-run growth
Strulik, Holger - 2013
This paper integrates imperfect self-control into the standard model of endogenous growth. Individuals are conceptualized as dual-selves consisting of a long-run planner and a short-run doer. The long-run self can partly control the short-run self´s strife for immediate gratification. It is...
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Present-Focused Preferences and Sin Goods Consumption at the Extensive and Intensive Margins
Kalamov, Zarko; Runkel, Marco - 2020
, the strength of temptation and the cost of self-control do not affect the extensive margin. Hence, present …
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Procrastination, Academic Success and the Effectiveness of a Remedial Program
De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2014
Procrastination produces harmful effects for human capital investments and studying activities. Using data from a large … sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual behaviour of students, considering the delay in … finalizing their university enrolment procedure. We firstly show that procrastination is a strong predictor of students …
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Procrastination and learning about self-control
Christensen, Else Gry Bro; Murooka, Takeshi - 2019
), the procrastination of learning can occur even when the learning cost is zero. The procrastination also leads to a non …
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Cold feet
Epstein, Larry G.; Kopylov, Igor - In: Theoretical Economics 2 (2007) 3, pp. 232-259
temptation and self-control to capture an individual who changes her beliefs so as to become more pessimistic as payoff time …
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Intertemporal efficiency and equity under hyperbolic preferences: Ex ante versus ex post procrastination
Winkler, Ralph - 2004
structural change from a polluting to a non polluting production sector into the future (ex ante procrastination). The … consequences of ex ante procrastination are discussed for three different behavioral patterns. I show that, depending on the … assumed behavioral regime, ex ante procrastination may lead to ex post procrastination, i.e. de facto no investment in the non …
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