Smoking Cessation: A Model of Planned vs. Actual Behavior for Time-Inconsistent Consumers
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...This approach is widely used to model self-control problems (e.g., Laibson 1997, O’Donoghue and Rabin 1999, Carrillo and Mariotti 2000, DellaVigna and Malmendier 2004, Machado and Sinha 2007, Gilpatric 2009).11 In particular, the discount function is given by D4 5=...
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...Our work is related to the growing literature that has used present-biased preferences to model self-control problems (e.g., Laibson 1997, Gruber and Köszegi 2001, Machado and Sinha 2007, Jain 2012)....
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...Failure to exert proper self-control can lead to various undesirable outcomes such as poor health, insufficient savings, addiction, poor productivity, and lost profits (e.g., Gruber and Köszegi 2001, O’Donoghue and Rabin 2000, Laibson 1997, Renn et al. 2011)....
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...Machado and Sinha (2007) examine how time-inconsistent preferences can affect the time when a smoker plans to quit and when he actually does....
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...…tries to incorporate psychological and sociological realism into economic models (see, for example, Carpenter and Nakamoto 1990; Wernerfelt 1995; Becker and Murphy 2000; Rabin 2002; Wu et al. 2004; Amaldoss and Jain 2005, 2008; Machado and Sinha 2007; Syam et al. 2008; Kuksov and Villas-Boas 2008)....
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...…has been used to study procrastination (see, for example, Fischer 2001; O’Donoghue and Rabin 1999, 2001), addiction (Gruber and Koszegi 2001, O’Donoghue and Rabin 2000, Machado and Sinha 2007), strategic ignorance (e.g., Carrillo and Mariotti 2000), and investment behavior (Laibson 1997, 1998)....
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...Published online in Articles in Advance June 19, 2009....
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...smoking and (b) the threshold effect makes it less likely 2 Although an early analysis of time-inconsistent discounting can be found in Strotz (1955)....
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