This chapter surveys work in behavioral public economics, emphasizing the normative
implications of non-standard decision making for the design of welfare-improving and/or …

We review research that measures time preferences—ie, preferences over intertemporal
trade—offs. We distinguish between studies using financial flows, which we call “money …

Intertemporal tradeoffs play a key role in many personal decisions and policy questions. We
describe models of intertemporal choice, identify empirical regularities in choice, and pose …

Summary Judgment and decision making researchers have produced many insights to
improve the capacity to decide. Decades of research have yielded an array of debiasing …

This paper studies alcohol consumption among low-income workers in India. In a 3-week
field experiment, the majority of 229 cycle-rickshaw drivers were willing to forgo substantial …

We argue that poverty can perpetuate itself by undermining the capacity for self‐control. In
line with a distinguished psychological literature, we consider modes of self‐control that …

We introduce and evaluate the effectiveness of temptation bundling—a method for
simultaneously tackling two types of self-control problems by harnessing consumption …

Behavioral Finance is one of the most novel developments in Behavioral Economics. Since
the end of the 1970ies a wide range of psychological, economic and sociological laboratory …

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 …

Recently, there have been reviews focusing on the neurological underpinning of
intertemporal. This chapter talks about the psychological foundation of intertemporal …