If people enjoy giving, then why do they avoid fund-raisers? Partnering with the Salvation
Army at Christmastime, we conducted a randomized field experiment placing bell ringers at …

Financial incentives have shown strong positive short-run effects for problematic health
behaviors that likely stem from time inconsistency. However, the effects often disappear …

Once upon a time the practice of storytelling was about collecting interesting stories about
the past, and converting them into soundbite pitches. Now it is more about foretelling the …

Economic theory and conventional wisdom suggest that time preference can cause or
perpetuate poverty. Might poverty also or instead cause impatient or impulsive behavior …

The goal of this book is to prepare readers to apply the optimal control theory to nonlinear
processes beyond the standard applications. The examples investigated in depth are drawn …

Economists have begun to debate if the rise in cigarette prices in the US in recent decades
has contributed to the nation's rise in obesity, reaching conclusions that are surprisingly …

Differentiated product models are predicated on the belief that a product's utility can be
derived from the summation of utilities for its individual attributes. In one framed field …

This paper attempts to answer an interesting but empirically challenging question: Do
changes in well-being (life satisfaction or happiness) lead to changes in consumption and …

An important category of seemingly maladaptive decisions involves failure to postpone
gratification. A person pursuing a desirable long-run outcome may abandon it in favor of a …

This study examines the relationship between time discounting, other sources of time
preference, and choices about smoking. Using a survey fielded for our analysis, we elicit …