Self-rewards and personal motivation

European Economic Review

Volumn 68, Issue , 2014, Pages 151-167

  Koch, Alexander K ^a   Nafziger, Julia ^a   Suvorov, Anton ^b   van de Ven, Jeroen ^c,d  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Goals; Quasi hyperbolic discounting; Reference dependent preferences; Self control; Self rewards

Indexed keywords

INCENTIVE; SELF ASSESSMENT; SELF HELP;

EID: 84897502580     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2014.03.002     Document Type: Article

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