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We study the role of heuristic versus deliberative processing in intertemporal choice. Using studies in the Democratic Republic of Congo and an online labor market, we show that waiting periods - designed to prompt deliberation by temporally separating news about choice sets from choices...
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expect a decision maker to distinguish between different time periods or different prizes? Our key premise is that cognitive … of observed anomalies, such as: (i) time preference reversal, (ii) magnitude effects, (iii) interval length effects. For … such as the ratio and certainty effects, and rationalize Rabin's risk aversion paradox. This suggests that the theory may …
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We use a combination of lab and field evidence to study whether preferences for immediacy and the tendency to procrastinate are connected as in O'Donoghue and Rabin (1999a). To measure immediacy, we have participants choose between smaller-sooner and larger-later rewards. Both rewards are paid...
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Revealed preference is the dominant approach for inferring preferences, but it relies on discrete, stochastic choices. The choice process also produces response times (RTs) which are continuous and can often be observed in the absence of informative choice outcomes. Moreover, there is a...
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behaviors within three dimensions: under risk, over time and regarding other people. A new perspective on two underlying …
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This paper presents an empirical investigation of the relation between decision speed and decision quality for a real-world setting of cognitively-demanding decisions in which the timing of decisions is endogenous: professional chess. Move-by-move data provide exceptionally detailed and precise...
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Recent studies investigate policies motivating consumers to make an active choice as a way to protect unsophisticated consumers. We analyse the optimal timing of such choice-enhancing policies when a firm can strategically react to them. In our model, a firm provides an automatic enrollment or...
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. In light of conflicting results, this paper reports on an analysis of response time data from an online experiment in … average response time of contributors is 40 percent higher than that of free-riders. A within-subject analysis reveals that …
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