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Choice and Procrastination Abstract: Recent models of procrastination due to self-control problems assume that a procrastinator considers just one option and is unaware of her self-control problems. We develop a model where a person chooses from a menu of options and is partially aware of her self-control problems. This menu model replicates earlier results and generates new ones. A person might forego completing an attractive option because she plans to complete a more attractive but never-to-be-completed option. Hence, providing non-procrastinator additional options can induce procrastination, and a person may procrastinate worse pursuing important goals than unimportant ones. Introduction Most of us procrastinate. We delay doing unpleasant tasks that we wish we would do sooner. Such procrastination can be very costly. We skip enjoyable events in mid-April because we procrastinate in completing our taxes; we die young because we procrastinate in quitting smoking, Starting a diet, or scheduling a medical check-up; and we are denied tenure because of our own, co-authors’, or journal referees’ procrastination. There is a growing literature in economics that assumes people have self-control problems, conceited of as a time-inconsistent taste for immediate gratification. An often discussed implication of such preferences is procrastination.1 these models of procrastination assume that a potential procrastinator has only one task under consideration, and hence the only concern is when the person completes the task. In most situations, however, a person must decide not only when to complete a task, but also which task to complete, or how much effort to apply to a chosen task. If a person must revise a paper for resubmission, she can either respond minimally to the editor’s suggestions or expend more effort to respond thoroughly. If she is choosing how to invest some money, she can either thoughtlessly follow the advice of a friend, or thoroughly investigate investment