Commitment Devices.¶
Bryan, G., Karlan, D., & Nelson, S. (2010). Commitment Devices. Annual Review of Economics, 671-698.
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- Commitment Device
- Bryan, Karlan, and Nelson (2010), surveying the empirical literature, document that the same underlying mechanism — voluntary, costly constriction of one's own future choice set — recurs across savings, health, addiction, and productivity interventions, and that its effectiveness depends consistently on whether the agent is sophisticated enough to recognize the future conflict in advance.
This sourceSurvey documenting that the same voluntary, costly constriction of one's own future choice set recurs across savings, health, addiction, and productivity interventions, with effectiveness depending on the agent's sophistication; supports the knowledge-transfer survey claim.
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The abstract confirms a survey on the demand for and effectiveness of commitment devices (hard vs soft), but names no savings, health, addiction or productivity domains and no sophistication dependence.
“We review the recent evidence on commitment devices and discuss how this evidence relates to theoretical questions about the demand for, and effectiveness of, commitment.”
- Bryan, Karlan, and Nelson (2010), surveying the empirical literature, document that the same underlying mechanism — voluntary, costly constriction of one's own future choice set — recurs across savings, health, addiction, and productivity interventions, and that its effectiveness depends consistently on whether the agent is sophisticated enough to recognize the future conflict in advance.
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