“...•We review existing literature in order to understand how approaches from behavioral economics may help us understand investments into education.•Observed...”

“...Behavioral economics struggles to explain why people sometimes evaluate outcomes separately (narrow bracketing of mental accounts) and sometimes jointly (broad...”

“...We provide a tractable model of motivational goal bracketing by a present-biased individual, extending previous work to show that the main insights from models...”

“...•Small packages are not commitment devices, but serve to exploit naïve consumers.•Large packages are commitment devices for sophisticated consumers.•Naïve...”

“...We ask how the incentives of an agent are affected by an information management system that lets the agent receive information about the performance of a...”

“...This paper studies information transmission in a two‐sender, multidimensional cheap talk setting where there are exogenous constraints on the (convex) feasible...”

“...Self-administered rewards are ubiquitous. They serve as incentives for personal accomplishments and are widely recommended to increase personal motivation. We...”

“...This experiment elicits beliefs about other people’s overconfidence and abilities. We find that most people believe that others are unbiased, and only few...”

“...We evaluate two variants of a school-based, intensive learning camp for pupils who are assessed 'not ready' for further education after compulsory school,...”

“...We study theoretically and experimentally how the bracketing of non-binding goals in a repeated task affects the level of goals that people set for themselves,...”