Ted O'Donoghue

Department of Economics
Cornell University

Unpublished Papers

"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)]

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

Publications

Levon Barseghyan, Francesca Molinari, Ted O'Donoghue, and Joshua Teitelbaum, "Distinguishing
Probability Weighting from Risk Misperceptions in Field Data" American Economic Review Papers
and Proceedings, forthcoming May 2013.
[January 2013 full paper (pdf)]

Levon Barseghyan, Francesca Molinari, Ted O'Donoghue, and Josh Teitelbaum, "The Nature of
Risk Preferences: Evidence from Insurance Choices," American Economic Review, forthcoming.
[November 2012 full paper (pdf)] [extended appendix (pdf)]

Corinna Löckenhoff, Ted O'Donoghue, and David Dunning, "Age Differences in Temporal Discounting:
The Role of Dispositional Affect and Anticipated Emotions," Psychology and Aging, 26(2), June 2011, 274-284.

Ted O’Donoghue and Matthew Rabin, “Procrastination on Long-Term Projects,” Journal of Economic
Behavior and Organization
, 66(2), May 2008, 161-175..
[abstract (html)] [pre-published version (pdf)] [journal homepage]

Michael Conlin, Ted O'Donoghue, and Timothy Vogelsang, "Projection Bias in Catalog Orders,"
American Economic Review, 97(4), September 2007, 1217-1249.

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]

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)]

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

"Incentives and Self Control," in Richard Blundell, Whitney Newey, and Torsten Persson, eds.,
Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Volume 2: Theory and Applications
(Ninth World Congress)
, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 215-245.
[pre-published version (pdf)]

"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

"Bracketing and Risk Preferences: Identification and Estimation in Field Data" (with Levon Barseghyan,
Francesca Molinari, and Joshua Teitelbaum).

"Paying More for Less: Why Don't Households in Tanzania Take Advantage of Bulk Discounts?"
(with Joachim De Weerdt and Brian Dillon).

"Hyperbolic Discounting and Consumer Purchases of Storable Goods" (with Matthew Rabin)

"Paying More for Less: Why Don't Households in Tanzania Take Advantage of Bulk Discounts?” (with
Joachim De Weerdt and Brian Dillon).

"Bracketing and Risk Preferences: Identification and Estimation in Field Data" (with Levon Barseghyan,
Francesca Molinari, and Josh Teitelbaum).