Tag
procrastination
6 findings
Firms & operationsFrontloaded Task SmoothingTreatment branches experienced an 18% increase in new loan sourcing and a 10% increase in loan renewals during the first two weeks of the month (~1 additional loan per branch in weeks 1–2, p < 0.10) and a 12% reduction in distance from ideal monthly task distribution (gap indicator decreased by 6.6 to 9.8 points, p < 0.05) without increasing delinquency rates.RCTFirms & operationsOwner Time Constraints and Procrastination in Process AdoptionFirm directors worked an average of 68 hours per week; owner time scarcity and procrastination rose from causing 3.7% of practice nonadoption at baseline to 14.0% after 9 months as an implementation backlog accumulated.RCTBehaviour & psychologyPost-Intervention Behavioral RelapseFollowing program termination, the post-intervention treatment dummy returned to zero/statistically insignificant levels across goal completion, gap indicator (-5.16, p > 0.10), and biweekly productivity (0.387, p > 0.10), proving that productivity gains were driven strictly by active reminders rather than permanent habit formation or career concerns.RCTBehaviour & psychologySupervisor-Reinforced RemindersTarget achievement increased by 70.0 percentage points (coefficient = 0.698, p < 0.10; with controls coefficient = 0.854, p < 0.05) and the workload gap index decreased by 9.58 points (p < 0.05) during Phase 2 when branch managers provided weekly reminders, whereas Phase 1 showed no statistically significant effect (coefficient = -0.081, p > 0.10).RCTEconomics (general)Time-Varying Psychological Application CostsWithin-jobseeker crossover treatment yields statistically indistinguishable returns between marginal and inframarginal applications (p = 0.503 for interview probability, p = 0.480 for value-weighted interviews). Application submission probability decays exponentially from notification date to deadline date.RCTEconomics (general)Application Window Timing DecayEach additional day between notification and application deadline reduced the phone-call treatment effect on job application probability by 0.072 percentage points (p < 0.001).RCT