Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170102818

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP170102818

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Using behavioural economic insights to overcome student procrastination. 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.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 24-10-2017

End Date: 23-10-2021

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $301,500.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Economics of Education | Experimental Economics | Applied Economics |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Human Capital Issues | Preference, Behaviour and Welfare

Other Keywords

Applied Economics | Economics of Education | Experimental Economics | Human Capital Issues | Preference, Behaviour and Welfare

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