Incentives for Procrastinators
- 1 August 1999
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 114 (3) , 769-816
- https://doi.org/10.1162/003355399556142
Abstract
We examine how principals should design incentives to induce time-inconsistent procrastinating agents to complete tasks efficiently. Delay is costlyKeywords
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