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It has been argued that hyperbolic discounting of future gains and losses leads to time-inconsistent behavior and thereby, in the context of health economics, not enough investment in health and too much indulgence of unhealthy consumption. Here, we challenge this view. We set up a life-cycle...
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I derive a social planner's optimal information design in an environment with quasi-hyperbolic discounting consumers without commitment. Consumption induces instantaneous utility, but unknown delayed cost. Consumers may or may not acquire additional costless information on the cost parameter....
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show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias. -- fertility ; family policy ; household allocation …
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present bias and naivety in the under-utilization of this preventive health care. Our results show evidence for both present … bias and naivety"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …
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