Futile Attempts at Self-Control
研究当消费有害产品具有二元崩溃/非崩溃性质且个体低估自我控制需求时，代价高昂却徒劳的自我控制尝试。考虑时间不一致偏好和诱惑负效用，发现更成熟可能降低福利，并探讨何种错误信念导致低福利。
We investigate costly yet futile attempts at self-control when consumption of a harmful product has a binary breakdown/no-breakdown nature and individuals tend to underestimate their need for self-control. Considering time-inconsistent preferences as well as temptation disutility, we show that becoming more sophisticated can decrease welfare and investigate what kind of mistaken beliefs lead to low welfare. With time-inconsistent preferences, being close to perfectly understanding one's preferences but assigning zero probability to true preferences induces the worst outcome.