Stirling Workshop on Self-Control and Public Policy (Friday, September 15th)
Self-control is the human capacity that enables people to control short-term impulses and desires in order to achieve long-term goals. This workshop brings together different perspectives in order to outline the implications of self-control for a range of policy issues spanning the areas of health, education, labour, and welfare policy. The speakers combine theoretical and methodological approaches from economics and psychology in novel ways to generate new approaches to policy problems, move forward in affecting change in these problems, and further uncover the policy implications of self-control.
Themes that will be discussed at the workshop include:
- Measurement of self-control for policy research.
- Capitalising more fully on the information collected in large-scale government surveys to
understand the development of self-control and its lifespan implications.
- Economic, health, and welfare consequences of different degrees of self-control.
- The effectiveness and scalability of interventions to improve self-control.
- Understanding self-control in the context of everyday life and social interactions.
- The relationship between environmental cues, 'nudge' interventions and trait self- control.
Event Programme
08.45-09.15: COFFEE
09.15-09.30: Opening and Registration
09.30-10.00: Ailbhe Booth (UCD) Examining disciplinary perspectives on self-regulation
10.00-10.30: Terry Ng-Knight (UCL) Predictors of self-control during childhood
10.30-11.00: Michael Daly (Stirling) Lifespan outcomes of childhood self-control
11.00-11.30: COFFEE
11.30-12.00: Conny Wollbrant (Stirling; Gothenburg) Time preferences and cross-country resource use
12.00-12.30: Claudia Cerrone (Max Planck, Bonn) Doing it when others do: a strategic model of procrastination
12.30-13.00: Julius Frankenbach (Saarland University) Does self-control training improve self-control? A meta-analysis
13.00-14.00: LUNCH
14.00-14.30: Leonhard Lades (UCD, EnvEcon) Self-control in everyday life
14.30-15.15: Esther Papies (University of Glasgow) Situating interventions to bridge the intention-behaviour gap: The case of healthy eating
15.15-15.30: COFFEE
15.30-16.15: Denise de Ridder (Utrecht University) Self-control, nudging, and health
16.15-17.00: Panel Discussion
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