The Relationship between Deadline Setting and Students’ Time Preferences

Abstract

Research on the application of Quasi-hyperbolic Discounting Model in behavioral economics has been a hot area, but there is not much information on its application at the secondary school level. In this article, the author mainly explores several influencing factors of students' time preference, including gender, degree of self-controlling under free condition and degree of self-controlling under teacher's mandatory, collects data through paper interview papers and uses T-test to analyze method and analysis of averages to analyze the results. In the result, it is found that there is a relationship between the student's self-discipline and the delta parameter in the student's time preference. Due to practical limitations and a small sample size, this conclusion cannot use the analysis method suitable for large sample size analysis. Therefore, the conclusion drawn may be slightly biased, and later research is needed.