person, and include unused options in the device tailored to the second person. These results have important policy …

acquisition in life-time for the latter besides relevance for educational and labor market success. Analyzing returns of … increase in the amount of curriculum per unit of time (learning intensity) at the end of higher secondary schooling on nine … does rather not depend on schooling investments in late adolescence. …

This paper analyzes the mechanisms underlying excessive sexual risk taking in the presence of HIV. Drawing ideas from …

As the increasing prevalence of obesity in the world, how to prevent increasing body weight has became important policy … and self-control problem. In contrast to replying on experimental evidence of the behavioral economic studies, age cohort … data are constructed for households in Taiwan and food away from home and several categories of food consumption at home …

In many countries, TV viewers have access to more and more TVchannels. We study whether people can cope with this and …

underinvest in education. The government may devise a transfer using a combination of free compulsory education, vouchers and …

their behavior by evaluating goal-related outcomes separately (in narrow psychological accounts) rather than jointly (in a … in narrow accounts. The key intuition is that broad accounts make decisions or risks in different tasks substitutes and …

selves with different preferences. The stronger this difference is, the more generous the resolution gets. This result is in … contrast to predictions of other models in which sinful consumption is distributed bimodally. Therefore, our result fits better …, the introduction of external self-commitment devices results in their overuse and is welfare decreasing. …

generally thought to be far from efficient, giving rise to the concept of the “energy-efficiency gap.” In this paper, we present … in explaining the energy-efficiency gap, (ii) standards might be used as a commitment device to address inefficiencies in … consumer choice that stem from temptation, and (iii) in the presence of temptation, a policy that combines standards with a …

Two types of motivations exist in terms of regulatory focus: a promotion orientation concerned with advancement and … promotion-focused and prevention-focused players differ in their sensitivity to message frames and therefore respond with …, negative messages are significantly effective in preventing them from becoming addicted to the games; meanwhile, for prevention …