Read this paper later: Procrastination with time-consistent preferences

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 249-269

  Fischer, Carolyn ^a  

^a RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

D81; D9; J22; Natural resource economics; Procrastination; Q3

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042367226     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2681(01)00160-3     Document Type: Article

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