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5
{12, 18, 18} and 
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5
{3, 8, 13}.
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s
5
1 and 
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tc
5
2 (and 
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3).
TCs write the paper on Saturday because the marginal benefit of a better paper
outweighs the marginal cost of giving up college football for pro basketball. Since
the example involves immediate costs, the present-bias effect suggests that sophis-
ticates should procrastinate. However, the sophistication effect leads sophisticates
to write the paper on Friday night, before TCs. On Friday, sophisticates correctly


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predict that they will end up writing the paper on Sunday if they do not do it now.
Hence, although sophisticates would prefer to write the paper on Saturday, they
do it on Friday to prevent themselves from procrastinating until Sunday.
In example 3, sophisticates behave exactly opposite from what present-biased
preferences would suggest, a result we will see again in sections 6 and 7. Of
course, this is not always the case. Indeed, when rewards are immediate, sophisti-
cates always preproperate because the sophistication effect exacerbates the self-
control problem. Even so, situations like that in example 3 are not particularly
pathological, and “preemptive overcontrol” is likely to arise in real-world envi-
ronments (especially when choices are discrete). We highlight this result to em-
phasize the importance of sophistication effects. If you assume present-biased
preferences and sophistication (as economists are prone to do), you must be care-
ful to ask whether results are driven by present-biased preferences per se, or by
present-biased preferences in conjunction with sophistication effects.
4.
Welfare
Our emphasis in the previous section on qualitative behavioral comparisons
among the three types of people masks what we feel may be a more important
question about present-biased preferences: When does the taste for immediate
gratification severely hurt a person? In this section, we examine the welfare im-
plications of present-biased preferences with an eye towards this question. We
show that even a small bias for the present can lead a person to suffer severe wel-
fare losses, and characterize conditions when this can happen.
Welfare comparisons for people with time-inconsistent preferences are in prin-
ciple problematic; the very premise of the model is that a person’s preferences at
different times disagree, so that a change in behavior may make some selves bet-
ter off while making other selves worse off. The savings literature (e.g., Goldman
1979, 1980; Laibson 1994) often addresses this issue by defining a Pareto-
efficiency criterion, asking when all period selves (weakly) prefer one strategy to
another. If a strategy is Pareto superior to another, then it is clearly better. However,
we feel this criterion is too strong: When applied to intertemporal choice, the Pareto
criterion often refuses to rank two strategies even when one is much preferred by
virtually all period selves, while the other is preferred by only one period self.
Since present-biased preferences are often meant to capture self-control prob-
lems, where people pursue immediate gratification on a day-to-day basis, we feel
the natural perspective in most situations is the “long-run perspective.” (See
Schelling [1984] for a thoughtful discussion of some of these issues.)
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To formalize the long-run perspective, we suppose there is a (fictitious) period 0
where the person has no decision to make and weights all future periods equally. We
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Indeed, Akerlof (1991) frames his discussion of procrastination in a way that emphasizes that a
person’s true preferences are her long-run preferences. Procrastination occurs in his model because
costs incurred today are “salient”—a person experiences a cognitive illusion where costs incurred to-
day loom larger than they are according to her true preferences.



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