Arbeitspapier
Procrastination and learning about self-control
We study a model of task completion with the opportunity to learn about own self-control problems over time. While the agent is initially uncertain about her future self-control, in each period she can choose to learn about it by paying a non-negative learning cost and spending one period. If the agent has time-consistent preferences, she always chooses to learn whenever the learning is beneficial. If the agent has time-inconsistent preferences, however, she may procrastinate such a learning opportunity. Further, if her time preferences exhibit inter-temporal conflicts between future selves (e.g., hyperbolic discounting), the procrastination of learning can occur even when the learning cost is zero. The procrastination also leads to a non-completion of the task. When the agent has multiple initially-uncertain attributes (e.g., own future self-control and own ability for the task), the agent's endogenous learning decisions may be misdirected - she chooses to learn what she should not learn from her initial perspective, and she chooses not to learn what she should.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 192
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Game Theory and Bargaining Theory: General
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: General‡
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡
- Subject
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procrastination
self-control
naivete
hyperbolic discounting
misdirected learning
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Christensen, Else Gry Bro
Murooka, Takeshi
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition
- (where)
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München und Berlin
- (when)
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2019
- Handle
- Last update
- 10.03.2025, 11:46 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Christensen, Else Gry Bro
- Murooka, Takeshi
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition
Time of origin
- 2019
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