Income Smoothing and Self-Control: The Case of Schoolteachers.

Approximately one-half of California's Unified School Districts give teachers a choice of receiving their annual salaries in 10 or 12 monthly payments. Intertemporal utility maximization d la Irving Fisher suggests that they should choose 10 payments and earn interest on their savings. But about 50%...

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Published in:Economic Inquiry Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 823 - 831
Main Authors: Mayer, Thomas, Russell, Thomas
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell October 2005
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