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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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Firms spend billions of dollars each year advertising consumer products in order to influence demand. Much of these outlays are on the creative design of advertising content. Creative content often uses nuances of presentation and framing that have large effects on consumer decision making in...
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This study analyses the relation between perceived health status and intertemporal choice. We use data from experiments with real monetary rewards conduEted among students in South Africa to estimate risk and time preferences. These experimental data, based on muitiple price lists developed by...
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Until now, the dominant belief concerning the relationship between poverty and risk aversion is that the poor are more risk averse. If the poor are more risk averse, then they will choose “low risk-low return” activities that trap them in poverty. However, both empirical and experimental...
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The purpose of the study is to collect information that can be used to design a policy to induce the poor to invest in human capital. We use laboratory experimental methodology to measure the preferences and choices of the target population of a proposed government policy. We recruited 256...
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