Joshua Tasoff

Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University

Associate Professor

150 E. Tenth Street

Claremont, CA 91711

United States

http://https://scholar.cgu.edu/joshua-tasoff/

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1.

Fantasy and Dread: The Demand for Information and the Consumption Utility of the Future

Management Science, Forthcoming, Claremont McKenna College Robert Day School of Economics and Finance Research Paper
Number of pages: 113 Posted: 23 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2016
Ananda R. Ganguly and Joshua Tasoff
Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance and Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University
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anticipatory utility, intrinsic information preferences, information aversion, information avoidance, information-consumption complementarity, information-present-consumption substitutability, positive affect, sexually transmitted diseases, ostrich effect, time preferences

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The Performance of Time-Preference and Risk-Preference Measures in Surveys

Number of pages: 89 Posted: 05 May 2018 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2020
Joshua Tasoff and Wenjie Zhang
Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University and Claremont Colleges - School of Politics and Economics
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Time Preferences, Risk Preferences, Surveys, Elicitation Method

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Eating to Save the Planet: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial using Individual-Level Food Purchase Data

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 06 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2019
Andrew Jalil, Joshua Tasoff and Arturo Bustamante
Occidental College, Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health
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Behavioral Environmental Economics, Climate Change, Dietary Change, Food Policy, Global Warming, Meat Consumption

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Exponential-Growth Bias and Lifecycle Consumption

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 10 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2015
Matthew Levy and Joshua Tasoff
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics and Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University
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exponential-growth bias, dynamic inconsistency, personal finance, overconsumption, lifecycle consumption, overconfidence

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Supervised Machine Learning for Eliciting Individual Demand

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 13 May 2019 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2021
John A. Clithero, Jae Joon Lee and Joshua Tasoff
Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University and Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University
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Machine Learning, Willingness to Pay, BDM, Random Forest, Lasso, Prediction

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Everyone Believes in Redemption: Nudges and Overoptimism in Costly Task Completion

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 27 May 2012 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2015
Robert Letzler and Joshua Tasoff
Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University
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overoptimism, overconfidence, nudges, rebates, weak cost-salience

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Predicting Retirement Savings Using Survey Measures of Exponential-Growth Bias and Present Bias

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11762
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 17 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2023
Gopi Shah Goda, Matthew Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner and Joshua Tasoff
Stanford University, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University
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survey-based elicitations, exponential-growth bias, present bias, financial literacy, quasi-hyperbolic discounting, retirement savings, household finance

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Exponential-Growth Bias and Overconfidence

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2016
Matthew Levy and Joshua Tasoff
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics and Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University
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exponential-growth bias, overconfidence, financial literacy, overestimation, overprecision

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A Model of Attention and Anticipation

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 15 Jul 2015
Joshua Tasoff and Kristof Madarasz
Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
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Trick for a Treat: The Effect of Costume, Identity, and Peers on Norm Violations

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 11 Nov 2019
Shanshan Zhang, Narek Bejanyan, Zhou Fang, Matthew Gomies, Jason Justo, Li-Hsin Lin, Rainita Narender, Minjae Yun and Joshua Tasoff
Wuhan University - Economics and Management School, Claremont Colleges, Claremont Graduate University - Department of Economics, Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University, Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University, Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University, Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, UCLA School of Law and Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University
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Halloween, lying experiment, identity, costume, clothes, norm violation

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Are Retirement Planning Tools Substitutes or Complements to Financial Capability?

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Are Retirement Planning Tools Substitutes or Complements to Financial Capability?

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 06 Sep 2022
Gopi Shah Goda, Matthew Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner, Joshua Tasoff and Jiusi Xiao
Stanford University, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University and Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University
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retirement planning, retirement saving, exponential-growth bias, present bias, financial literacy, financial capability

Are Retirement Planning Tools Substitutes or Complements to Financial Capability?

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 30 Jan 2022
Gopi Shah Goda, Matthew Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner, Joshua Tasoff and Jiusi Xiao
Stanford University, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University and Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University
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retirement planning, retirement saving, exponential-growth bias, present bias, financial literacy, financial capability

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Misunderestimation: Exponential-Growth Bias and Time-Varying Returns

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 15 Jul 2015
Matthew Levy and Joshua Tasoff
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics and Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University
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exponential-growth bias, compound interest, averaging effect, extrapolation effect

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When Higher Productivity Hurts: The Interaction Between Overconfidence and Capital

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 02 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2016
Andrew Royal, Andrew Royal and Joshua Tasoff
Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate UniversityResources for the Future and Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University
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overconfidence, ability-complements, ability-substitutes, excess entry

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Exponential-Growth Bias in Experimental Consumption Decisions

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 01 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2015
Matthew Levy and Joshua Tasoff
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics and Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University
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exponential-growth bias, dynamic inconsistency, overconsumption, consumption- savings, personal finance

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Changing Hearts and Plates: The Effect of Animal-Advocacy Pamphlets on Meat Consumption

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 Feb 2021
Menbere Haile, Andrew Jalil and Joshua Tasoff
Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University, Occidental College and Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University
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Who is a Passive Saver Under Opt-In and Auto-Enrollment?

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Who is a Passive Saver Under Opt-In and Auto-Enrollment?

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12497
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 12 Aug 2019
Gopi Shah Goda, Matthew Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner and Joshua Tasoff
Stanford University, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University
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present bias, exponential-growth bias, household finance, retirement saving decisions, choice architecture, defaults, financial literacy, procrastination

Who is a Passive Saver Under Opt-In and Auto-Enrollment?

NBER Working Paper No. w26078
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 23 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2023
Gopi Shah Goda, Matthew Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner and Joshua Tasoff
Stanford University, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University
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The Role of Time Preferences and Exponential-Growth Bias in Retirement Savings

NBER Working Paper No. w21482
Number of pages: 95 Posted: 25 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2023
Gopi Shah Goda, Matthew Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner and Joshua Tasoff
Stanford University, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University
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To Savor Consumption or to Confront Dread: The Hedonic Opportunity Cost of Attention

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 25 Oct 2023
C. Monica Capra, Joshua Tasoff and Jin Xu
Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University, Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University and Claremont Graduate University
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information preferences, information aversion, consumption, substitutes, complements

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Are Retirement Planning Tools Substitutes or Complements to Financial Capability?

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15758
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 02 Dec 2022
Gopi Goda, Matthew Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner, Joshua Tasoff and Jiusi Xiao
Stanford University, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University and Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University
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retirement planning, retirement saving, exponential-growth bias, present bias, financial literacy, financial capability

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Are Retirement Planning Tools Substitutes or Complements to Financial Capability?

NBER Working Paper No. w30723
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 12 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2023
Gopi Shah Goda, Matthew Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner, Joshua Tasoff and Jiusi Xiao
Stanford University, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University and Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University
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Exponential-Growth Bias and Long-Run Investment Decisions

Posted: 22 Jun 2012
Joshua Tasoff
Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University

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