Arbeitspapier

Income Smoothing and Self Control: The Case of Schoolteachers

Close to half the California school districts let teachers choose whether to receive their salaries ten monthly payments or in twelve. Fisherine intertemporal maximization implies that they should choose ten payments and earn interest on their savings for their summer. But about half choose twelve installments , even though when summed over a reasonable period the foregone interest is considerable. This can be explained by the cost of exercising self control and by Laibson’s model of hyperbolic discounting. A survey of teachers supports this interpretation.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Working Paper ; No. 02-8

Classification
Wirtschaft
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡
Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
Subject
Self Control
Intertemporal Utility Maximization
Zeitpräferenz
Lohn
Intertemporale Einkommensverteilung
Lehrkräfte
Abzinsung
Kalifornien

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Mayer, Thomas
Russell, Thomas
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
University of California, Department of Economics
(where)
Davis, CA
(when)
2002

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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Mayer, Thomas
  • Russell, Thomas
  • University of California, Department of Economics

Time of origin

  • 2002

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