Using behavioural economic insights to overcome student procrastination

利用行为经济学见解克服学生的拖延症

• 批准号: DP170102818
• 负责人: Prof Lionel Page
• 金额: $ 21.11万
• 依托单位: Queensland University of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2017-10-24 至 2021-10-23
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP170102818
• 关键词: Using; behavioural; economic; insights; overcome

This project aims to study the relations between present-biased time preference, procrastination, and achievement at school, using economic experiments. Investment in human capital generates economic benefits for students, families, employers, and society, but its benefits are realised far into the future. Because of these immediate costs and delayed benefits, behavioural economic theory predicts that students will procrastinate. This project will identify the characteristics of students at greatest risk of procrastination, evaluate practical strategies to overcome it, and examine whether it is associated with poorer outcomes. This should help schools and policy makers reduce educational inequalities, and yield long-term benefits over students’ lives.

本研究旨在通过经济学实验，探讨存在时间偏向的时间偏好、拖延与学业成绩的关系。人力资本投资为学生、家庭、雇主和社会带来经济效益，但其效益的实现要到遥远的未来。由于这些直接的成本和延迟的收益，行为经济学理论预测学生会拖延。该项目将确定拖延风险最大的学生的特征，评估克服拖延的实用策略，并检查拖延是否与较差的结果有关。这应该有助于学校和政策制定者减少教育不平等，并为学生的生活带来长期利益。