Choice and Procrastination

By Ted O’Donoghue, Matthew Rabin. 2000

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Subfields: Accounting, Clinical Psychology, General Decision Sciences

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Privacy in electronic commerce and the economics of immediate gratification (2004, background): “For example, individuals have a tendency to discount ‘hyperbolically’ future costs or benefits [31, 27].”
Studying Optimal Paternalism, Illustrated by a Model of Sin Taxes (2003, background): “Alternatively, perhaps we could require consumers to 3 See O'Donoghue and Rabin (1999b, 2001) for a discussion of sophistication and naivete and for an approach to modeling the intermediate cases of "partial naivete." buy nonrefundable coupons in advance that give them the right to purchase these it”
Time Discounting and Time Preference: A Critical Review (2002, background): “O'Donoghue and Rabin (2001) explore procrastination when a person must not only choose when to complete a task, but also must choose which task to complete.”
The Shapeless River: Does a Lack of Structure Inhibit Students' Progress at Community Colleges? CCRC Working Paper No. 25. Assessment of Evidence Series. (2011, background): “Thus, to the extent the intervention is successful, it is not possible to isolate structure as the causal mechanism (see Perin’s [2011] discussion of I-BEST in her companion review of the contextualization literature).”
Present Bias: Lessons Learned and To Be Learned† (2015, background): “Quantitative estimates of discounting do tend to vary across contexts, and some models (e.g., dual-process models) explicitly incorporate context-specific discounting.8 While such enrichments are surely useful, we worry that researchers are perhaps excessively focused on the details of present…”