How do individuals with time-inconsistent preferences—à la Strotz/Phelps/Pollak/Laibson— make consumption-savings decisions? We try to answer this question by considering the simplest possible form of consumption-savings problem, assuming that discounting is quasigeometric. A solution to the decision problem is then a subgame-perfect equilibrium of a dynamic game between the individual’s “succe...

Author Contributions Conception and Design: Shafiq U Ahmed, Ross Carruthers, Anthony J Chalmers Development of methodology: Shafiq U Ahmed, Ross Carruthers, Lesley Gilmour, Salih Yildirim Acquisition of data: Shafiq U Ahmed, Ross Carruthers, Lesley Gilmour Analysis of data: Shafiq U Ahmed, Ross Carruthers, Lesley Gilmour Writing/review of manuscript: Shafiq U Ahmed, Colin Watts, Anthony J Chalm...

A wide body of research has examined unwanted but consensual sex in a face-to-face context, focusing on intercourse, petting, kissing, and other sexual activity that people consent to even though they do not want to. Recent research has shown many people engage in sexual interactions via computer-mediated mediums; yet, to date, there are no studies that have investigated whether unwanted but co...

P ositive turnout rates in the United States and elsewhere are widely considered “an embarrassing limitation of the economic approach to politics” because, for any one voter, “the costs of casting a ballot in any large election are almost always greater than the potential benefits, which are dependent on the unlikely occurrence of casting the winning or tie vote in an election” ~Knack 1992, 133...