: choosing an immediate benefit
over a delayed benefit.
Chalk it up to unconscious bias — specifically, a phenomenon called hyperbolic discounting: choosing an immediate benefit
over a delayed benefit.
Sticking with our smoking example, hyperbolic discounting is choosing the immediate benefit of smoking a cigarette
over the delayed benefit of lung health and reduced cancer risk.
Not exact matches
Over the past few months, ministers have removed child
benefit from wealthier families with one breadwinner and restricted financial help with child care to those mothers returning to work, yet repeatedly
delayed a promise to bring in tax breaks for married couples.»
Cumulative effectiveness
over a longer time period, however, does show a small net
benefit as a small number of the «
delayed» cases never end up happening due to chance.
If the
delay is
over a year after the death, the surviving spouse may lose
benefits, because CPP only makes back payments for a year.
If you are in good health and anticipate living a long retirement, it may be advantageous to
delay Social Security payments as long as possible so you can enjoy larger monthly
benefit checks
over time.
In addition, if you're
over FRA that amount will not equal your PIA, it will be your DRC - enhanced (
Delayed Retirement Credit)
benefit amount.
«For those customers, there is an underlying belief that organic products provide greater
benefits over their pets» lifetime, in terms of maintaining [optimal] health, as well as in helping to
delay or prevent disease.»
Farmers in temperate zones all
over the world already know that the planting season is coming weeks and months earlier than it used to — they would
benefit from knowing how this change is going to pan out, and they will get far better answers when people stop muddying the waters by promoting obfuscatory nonsense from the same professional liars that spent years trying to
delay anti-tobacco legislation.
We found that the
benefit of the
delayed CO2 emissions was
over twice as large as the programme costs.
Many plans cover any airline
delay over a certain number of hours, but other plans only apply
benefits if the
delay is weather or mechanical failure.
Baggage
delay benefits provide reimbursement for the purchase of a change of clothes, toiletries and other essential items if bags are
delayed over a certain time period.
For example, higher levels of depression have been shown to be predictive of poorer treatment outcomes for patients with chronic pain, 11 as well as higher health care costs
over time.12 Equally, the presence of pain in people being treated for mood disturbance has predicted
delayed responses to mood interventions.13 Therefore, improving our understanding of how chronic pain and depression are linked, and treating both components offers the prospect of enhancing treatment effects beyond the
benefits of treating either condition alone.14