Measuring Self-Control Problems

By J. Ameriks, Andrew Caplin, John Leahy, Tom Tyler. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences

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Personality and the marginal utility of income: Personality interacts with increases in household income to determine life satisfaction (2011, background): “Researchers have also shown the importance of conscientiousness and self control in the individual’s accumulation of wealth (Ameriks et al., 2003, 2007) and that conscientiousness appears to be an important factor determining the psychological distress associated with unemployment (Boyce et al.,…”
MISBEHAVIOR, EDUCATION, AND LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES (2013, background): “I know of no direct evidence connecting the noncognitive measures used in this paper to the tendency to be hyperbolic, though some indirect evidence may be found in Ameriks et al. (2007).”
Learning Self-Control (2011, background): “Baumeister et al. (1994) argue for the need for an individual to track her actions to minimize attribution errors, and Ameriks et al.”
Self-Control, Financial Literacy and Consumer Over-Indebtedness (2012, background): “A similar approach is used in Ameriks et al. (2007).”
Financial Literacy, Present Bias and Alternative Mortgage Products (2017, unknown): “…and self-control issues, which has shown that these are important factors for individual choice, both theoretically (Laibson, 1997) and empirically, for example for choices in retirement savings and in the labor market (DellaVigna and Malmendier, 2004; Ameriks et al., 2007; Busse et al., 2013).”
Does self-control predict financial behavior and financial well-being? (2017, result): “This finding is in line with the BLC hypothesis and previous research (Ameriks et al., 2007; Biljanovska and Palligkinis, 2015; Rha et al., 2006).”
A Generalizable Scale of Propensity to Plan: The Long and the Short of Planning for Time and for Money (2010, background): “Ameriks et al. (2007) and Bagozzi and Dholakia (1999) hypothesize that planning is an antecedent to self-control activities.”
Temporal stability and psychological foundations of cooperation preferences (2012, unknown): “, Ameriks et al. (2007), Bartling et al.”
Happiness and Time Preference: The Effect of Positive Affect in a Random-Assignment Experiment (2011, background): “Recommended Citation Ifcher, John, and Homa Zarghamee.”
Fostering Patience in the Classroom: Results from Randomized Educational Intervention (2018, background): “…Laibson et al. (1998), Bickel, Odum, and Madden (1999), DellaVigna and Paserman (2005), Heckman, Stixrud, and Urzua (2006), Knudsen et al. (2006), Ameriks et al. (2007), Meier and Sprenger (2010), Jamison, Karlan, and Zinman (2012), Finke and Huston (2013), and Sampson (2016). financial…”
Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit: Experimental and Survey Evidence from Rural India (2012, unknown): “Ameriks et al. (2007) relate survey measures of self-control difficulties to wealth.”
Financial Literacy, Retirement Planning and Household Wealth† (2012, unknown): “If consumers want to save but simply lack the discipline to do so, planning may help consumers to control their consumption (Ameriks et al., 2007).”
Which Measures of Time Preference Best Predict Outcomes? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment (2011, unknown): “…been developed to capture not only the more common elements of time preference like δ (e.g., the Health and Retirement Survey; Barsky et al., 1997), β (Ameriks et al., 2007) and impulsivity (Dickman, 1990), but some surveys have also embedded time preferences in broader theories of personality…”
Consumption and Saving: Models of Intertemporal Allocation and Their Implications for Public Policy (2010, unknown): “To counter this criticism, John Ameriks et al. (2007) devise a set of questions aimed at eliciting self-control problems directly and claim most people are affected by such problems (less so as they age).”
What will my account really be worth? Experimental evidence on how retirement income projections affect saving (2014, background): “Economists debate the extent to which Americans save too little, too much, or just the right amount for retirement (Scholz et al. 2006; Ameriks et al. 2007; De Nardi et al. 2010; Lusardi and Mitchell 2011).”