Unpublished Papers

"Incentives and Self Control," December 2005 (with Matthew Rabin).
[full paper (pdf)]

"The Heat of the Moment: Modeling Interactions Between Affect and Deliberation,"
June 2007 (with George Loewenstein).
[full paper (pdf)]

"Animal Spirits: Affective and Deliberative Processes in Economic Behavior,"
May 2005 (with George Loewenstein).
[full paper (pdf)]

"Projection Bias in Catalog Orders," April 2006 (with Michael Conlin and Timothy Vogelsang).
[full paper (pdf)]

"Addiction and Present-Biased Preferences," July 2002 (with Matthew Rabin).
[full paper (pdf)]

Publications

Ted O’Donoghue and Matthew Rabin, “Procrastination on Long-Term Projects,” Journal of Economic
Behavior and Organization, forthcoming.
[abstract (html)] [pre-published version (pdf)] [journal homepage]

• NOTICE: this is the authors' version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Economic
  Behavior and Organization. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing,
  corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document.
  Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version will be
  subsequently published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

• Previous and slightly different version that is cited in the published version:
  February 2002, CAE Working Paper #02-09

Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin, “Optimal Sin Taxes,” Journal of Public Economics, 90(10-11), 1825-1849.
[abstract (html)] [pre-published version (pdf)] [journal homepage]

Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin, “Optimal Taxes for Sin Goods,” Swedish Economic Policy Review, 12(2), 7-39.
[abstract (html)] [link to electronic journal]

• Note: This paper is closely related to but less technical than "Optimal Sin Taxes".

Ted O'Donoghue and George Loewenstein, “’We Can Do This the Easy Way or the Hard Way’: Negative Emotions,
Self-regulation and the Law,” University of Chicago Law Review, 73, Winter 2006, 183-206.
[abstract (html)]

Ted O'Donoghue and Josef Zweimueller, "Patents in a Model of Endogenous Growth,"
Journal of Economic Growth, 9(1), March 2004, 81-123.
[abstract (html)] [link to electronic journal]

George Loewenstein, Ted O'Donoghue, and Matthew Rabin, "Projection Bias in Predicting
Future Utility," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118(4), November 2003, 1209-1248.
[abstract (html)]

• Previous and slightly different versions that are cited in the published version:
  July 2002, CAE Working Paper #02-11
  June 2000, U.C. Berkeley Department of Economics Working Paper E00-284

Michael Conlin, Michael Lynn, and Ted O'Donoghue, "The Norm of Restaurant Tipping,"
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 52(3), November 2003, 297-321.
[abstract (html)] [link to electronic journal]

Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin, "Studying Optimal Paternalism, Illustrated by a Model of Sin Taxes,"
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 93(2), May 2003, 186-191.

Colin Camerer, Samuel Issacharoff, George Loewenstein, Ted O'Donoghue, and Matthew Rabin,
"Regulation for Conservatives: Behavioral Economics and the Case for 'Asymmetric Paternalism',"
University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 151(3), January 2003, 1211-1254.
[Available at journal homepage (http://www.law.upenn.edu/lrev/)]

Shane Frederick, George Loewenstein, and Ted O'Donoghue, "Time Discounting and Time Preference:
A Critical Review," Journal of Economic Literature, 40(2), June 2002, 351-401.
[Reprinted in Roy Baumeister, George Loewenstein, and Daniel Read, eds., Time and Decision: Economic and
Psychological Perspectives on Intertemporal Choice, Russell Sage Foundation, 2003; and
reprinted in Colin F. Camerer, George Loewenstein, and Matthew Rabin, eds., Advances in Behavioral Economics,
Princeton University Press, 2003.]

Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin, "Choice and Procrastination," Quarterly Journal of Economics,
116(1), February 2001, 121-160.
[abstract (html)]

Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin, "The Economics of Immediate Gratification," Journal of
Behavioral Decision Making, 13(2), April/June 2000, 233-250.
[abstract (html)] [link to electronic journal]

Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin, "Incentives for Procrastinators," Quarterly Journal of Economics,
114(3), August 1999, 769-816.
[abstract (html)]

Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin, "Doing It Now or Later," American Economic Review, 89(1),
March 1999, 103-124.
[Reprinted in Colin F. Camerer, George Loewenstein, and Matthew Rabin, eds., Advances in
Behavioral Economics, Princeton University Press, 2003.]
[abstract (html)]

Ted O'Donoghue, "A Patentability Requirement for Sequential Innovation," RAND Journal of Economics,
29(4), Winter 1998, 654-679.
[abstract (html)]

Ted O'Donoghue, Suzanne Scotchmer, and Jacques-Francois Thisse, "Patent Breadth, Patent Life, and the Pace of
Technological Progress," Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 7(1), Spring 1998, 1-32.
[abstract (html)]

Publications in Collected Volumes

"Self Awareness and Self Control," in Roy Baumeister, George Loewenstein, and Daniel Read, eds.,
Time and Decision: Economic and Psychological Perspectives on Intertemporal Choice,
Russell Sage Foundation, 2003, pp. 217-243 (with Matthew Rabin).

"Addiction and Self Control," in Jon Elster, editor, Addiction: Entries and Exits, Russell Sage Foundation,
1999, pp. 169-206 (with Matthew Rabin).

"Procrastination in Preparing for Retirement," in Henry Aaron, editor, Behavioral Dimensions of Retirement
Economics, Brookings Institution Press & Russell Sage Foundation, 1999, pp. 125-156 (with Matthew Rabin).

"Risky Behavior Among Youths: Some Issues from Behavioral Economics," in Jon Gruber, editor, Risky Behavior
Among Youths: An Economic Analysis, University of Chicago Press, 2001, pp. 29-67 (with Matthew Rabin).

Work in Progress

"A General Theory of Self Control" (with Matthew Rabin).

"Partial Awareness of Self-Control Problems: A Formalization" (with Matthew Rabin).

"Cautious Paternalism" (with Matthew Rabin).

"The (Psychological) Logic of Cumulative Risk" (with Matthew Rabin).

"Licensing Cumulative Innovations: The Problem of Backloaded Payoffs".