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List of works by David Laibson

$100 Bills on the Sidewalk: Suboptimal Investment in 401(k) Plans

scientific article published in August 2005

A Debt Puzzle

Active Choice, Implicit Defaults, and the Incentive to Choose

scientific article published in January 2019

Behavioral Economics Perspectives on Public Sector Pension Plans

scientific article published in January 2011

Behavioral Household Finance

scientific article published in July 2018

Borrowing to Save? The Impact of Automatic Enrollment on Debt

scientific article published in May 2019

Building Emergency Savings Through Employer-Sponsored Rainy-day Savings Accounts

scientific article published in December 2019

Capital Flows, Consumption Booms and Asset Bubbles: A Behavioural Alternative to the Savings Glut Hypothesis

scientific article published in February 2010

Consumption-Wealth Comovement of the Wrong Sign

scientific article published in April 2004

Controlling for the Compromise Effect Debiases Estimates of Risk Preference Parameters

Defined Contribution Pensions: Plan Rules, Participant Decisions, and the Path of Least Resistance

scientific article published in December 2001

Does Aggregated Returns Disclosure Increase Portfolio Risk-Taking?

scientific article published in March 2011

Does Front-Loading Taxation Increase Savings? Evidence from Roth 401(k) Introductions

scientific article published in December 2014

Does the Internet Increase Trading? Evidence from Investor Behavior in 401(k) Plans

Early Decisions: A Regulatory Framework

scientific article published in January 2006

Employees' Investment Decisions about Company Stock

scientific article published in January 2004

Equalizing Superstars: The Internet and the Democratization of Education

scientific article published in January 2014

Estimating Discount Functions with Consumption Choices over the Lifecycle

scientific article published in August 2007

Following Through on Good Intentions: The Power of Planning Prompts

scientific article published in April 2012

For Better or For Worse: Default Effects and 401(k) Savings Behavior

scientific article published in December 2001

How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices?

How are Preferences Revealed?

scientific article published in May 2008

Hyperbolic Discount Functions, Undersaving, and Savings Policy

scientific article published in June 1996

Individual Laboratory-Measured Discount Rates Predict Field Behavior

scientific article published in August 2008

Intertemporal Choice

scientific article published in December 2018

Learning in the Credit Card Market

scientific article published in February 2008

Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison

scientific article published in May 2015

Measuring Time Preferences

scientific article published in August 2016

Measuring intertemporal preferences using response times

scientific article published in September 2008

Mental Accounting in Portfolio Choice: Evidence from a Flypaper Effect

scientific article published in November 2007

Money Earlier or Later? Simple Heuristics Explain Intertemporal Choices Better than Delay Discounting

scientific article published in February 2015

Myopia and Discounting

Natural Expectations, Macroeconomic Dynamics, and Asset Pricing

scientific article published in August 2011

Optimal Defaults and Active Decisions

scientific article published in January 2005

Optimal Illiquidity

scientific article published in July 2020

Optimal Mortgage Refinancing: A Closed Form Solution

scientific article published in October 2007

Passive Decisions and Potent Defaults

scientific article published in August 2003

Paternalism and Pseudo-Rationality

scientific article published in July 2017

Plan Design and 401(k) Savings Outcomes

scientific article published in May 2004

Reducing the Complexity Costs of 401(k) Participation Through Quick Enrollment(TM)

scientific article published in January 2006

Self Control and Commitment: Can Decreasing the Liquidity of a Savings Account Increase Deposits?

scientific article published in August 2015

Shrouded Attributes, Consumer Myopia, and Information Suppression in Competitive Markets

Simplification and Saving

scientific article published in October 2006

The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions Over the Lifecycle

scientific article published in June 2007

The Availability and Utilization of 401(k) Loans

scientific article published in June 2011

The Economic Approach to Social Capital

The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions

The Impact of Employer Matching on Savings Plan Participation under Automatic Enrollment

scientific article published in August 2007

The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Savings Outcomes: Evidence from the United States

scientific article published in February 2006

Using Implementation Intentions Prompts to Enhance Influenza Vaccination Rates

scholarly article published June 2011

What Makes Annuitization More Appealing?

scientific article published in November 2012

What is Social Capital? The Determinants of Trust and Trustworthiness

scientific article published in July 1999

Who Uses the Roth 401(k), and How Do They Use It?

scientific article published in July 2013

Why Does the Law of One Price Fail? An Experiment on Index Mutual Funds

scientific article published in May 2006