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Intertemporal tradeoffs play a key role in many personal decisions and policy questions. We describe models of intertemporal choice, identify empirical regularities in choice, and pose new questions for research. The focus for intertemporal choice research is no longer whether the exponential...
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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 work...
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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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), the procrastination of learning can occur even when the learning cost is zero. The procrastination also leads to a non …
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The model of time-inconsistent procrastination by O'Donoughe and Rabin shows that individuals who are not aware of …
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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 …
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Procrastination is often attributed to time-inconsistent preferences but may also arise when individuals derive … for this notion of ‘motivated procrastination’. In a longitudinal experiment over four weeks, individuals must complete a … motivated memory, such that procrastination may persist even if uncertainty is eventually resolved. …
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Numerous laboratory studies report on behaviors inconsistent with rational economic models. How much do these inconsistencies matter in natural settings, when consumers make large, real decisions and have the opportunity to learn from experiences? We report on a field experiment designed to...
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We use a novel method to elicit and measure higher order risk preferences (prudence and temperance) in an experiment with 658 adolescents. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that higher order risk preferences particularly prudence are strongly related to adolescents' field behavior,...
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