This paper reports the results from a randomized educational intervention, that aims to build a forward-looking perspective in children. We evaluate the effects of the intervention on planning, commitment and consumption decisions in an intertemporal task using a temptation good, chocolate. We find that treated children end up consuming less chocolate on the earlier date than control children. This is both because they make more patient consumption plans, and because they exhibit a type of extreme self-control, eating even less than they had planned. Treatment effects are heterogeneous on gender, with treated girls becoming less present-biased (as well as more future-biased).

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前瞻性视角是否会影响自我控制和对承诺的需求？教育干预的结果

本文报告了一项随机教育干预的结果，旨在为儿童建立前瞻性的视角。我们使用诱惑商品巧克力来评估干预对跨期任务中的计划、承诺和消费决策的影响。我们发现接受治疗的儿童最终比对照组儿童更早地消耗更少的巧克力。这既是因为他们制定了更多耐心的消费计划，也因为他们表现出一种极端的自制力，甚至比他们计划的吃得更少。治疗效果因性别而异，接受治疗的女孩变得不那么偏向现在（以及更多地偏向未来）。