Time-Inconsistency and Saving: Experimental Evidence from Low-Income Tax Filers

We are grateful for funding from the Social Security Administration via the Center for Financial Security, University of Wisconsin, Madison, as a part of the Financial Literacy Research Consortium and for funding from the National Institute on Aging. We are thankful for useful comments from Benjamin Lockwood and seminar participants at Stanford University, the University of Chicago, the 2012 Behavioral Economics Annual Meeting and Wharton. All opinions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. This RCT was registered in the American Economic Association Registry for randomized control trials under Trial number AEARCTR-0000730.