Working over Time: Dynamic Inconsistency in Real Effort Tasks

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Catastrophes and time preference: Evidence from the Indian Ocean Earthquake (2015, unknown): “Augenblick et al. (2013) provide evidence along these lines.”
Revising Commitments: Field Evidence on the Adjustment of Prior Choices (2012, background): “We nd qualied support for present-biased preferences as a driver of these revisions: subjects shift more money toward sooner when: (1) their initial allocations are present-biased, and (2) the time lag to disbursement is shorter (when the revision decision is made six or fewer days prior to da”
What Motivates Effort?: Evidence and Expert Forecasts (2018, unknown): “Conditions (8) and (9) lead to the same solution for  = 1 but with   1 (loss aversion) effort is higher in the loss treatment.”
Present Bias: Lessons Learned and To Be Learned† (2015, background): “Researchers are now more comfortable 4 See, e.g., Augenblick, Niederle, and Sprenger (2013), who directly compare the use of money versus real effort, and find evidence of present bias only for the latter. with a simpler argument based on calibration.”