Does a forward‐looking perspective affect self‐control and the demand for commitment? Results from an educational intervention
通过随机教育干预培养儿童的前瞻性视角，发现干预使儿童在诱惑品（巧克力）的跨期任务中消费更少，原因包括更耐心的计划和极端自我控制，且对女孩影响更显著。
Abstract This paper reports the results from a randomized educational intervention, that aims to build a forward‐looking perspective in children. We evaluate the effects of the intervention on planning, commitment and consumption decisions in an intertemporal task using a temptation good, chocolate. We find that treated children end up consuming less chocolate on the earlier date than control children. This is both because they make more patient consumption plans, and because they exhibit a type of extreme self‐control, eating even less than they had planned. Treatment effects are heterogeneous on gender, with treated girls becoming less present‐biased (as well as more future‐biased).