, the strength of temptation and the cost of self-control do not affect the extensive margin. Hence, present …

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 …

), the procrastination of learning can occur even when the learning cost is zero. The procrastination also leads to a non …

temptation and self-control to capture an individual who changes her beliefs so as to become more pessimistic as payoff time …

Traditionally, economic models have attributed procrastination to present bias. However, procrastination may also arise … to complete. This study provides a rigorous empirical test for this notion of `motivated procrastination'. In a … (motivated procrastination) turns out to be robust to accounting for decision-makers' time preferences and emotional responses …