Present-bias, procrastination and deadlines in a field experiment

DOI10.1016/J.GEB.2019.11.010MaRDI QIDQ2291179zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alberto Bisin, Kyle Hyndman

Publication date 30 January 2020

Published in Games and Economic Behavior (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2019.11.010

zbMATH Keywords

commitmentdeadlinesexperimentprocrastination

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to game theory, economics, and finance (91-05) Decision theory (91B06)

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